Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homoeopathy can be very satisfying if you do not get worried or weighed down by the ‘ burden ’ of finding a remedy . |
| 2 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 3 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 4 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 5 | Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) . |
| 6 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 7 | These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government . |
| 8 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 9 | They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly . |
| 10 | This form of modern-day slavery also exists in the Dominican Republic where thousands of Haitians are bought or rounded up by the military to work in appalling conditions on sugar-cane plantations . |
| 11 | Housework and childcare have remained largely privatised , neither integrated into socialised commodity production , nor taken over by the state , unlike education and the health service . |
| 12 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
| 13 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 14 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |
| 15 | The first is the period of oral tradition when the stories of Jesus were used and passed on by the Church . |
| 16 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 17 | Companies ' interim and preliminary statements should be reviewed and reported on by the auditor before publication . |
| 18 | A final factor affecting the erosion of cliff coasts composed of hard rock is the load of stones and boulders stirred up and moved about by the waves . |
| 19 | Then he went quiet and knelt down by the redhead . |
| 20 | The research was supported by WACC and carried out by the Centre for Artistic and Cultural Research ( ceneca ) with the aim of encouraging TV networks to carry programmes that would improve the quality of young people 's lives and thereby enhance their contribution to national life . |
| 21 | The General Household Survey is conducted annually , and the Family Expenditure Survey and New Earnings Survey are commissioned by government departments and carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 22 | The coroner 's jury had even brought in a sensational verdict , that ‘ the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary , officially directed by the British Government , and we return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of England … . ’ |
| 23 | Some of these other forms of treatment — even some that are advised and carried out by the medical profession — are the clinical equivalent of the extraordinarily inhuman ( and ineffective ) previous " treatment " of cancer patients by pulling out all their teeth . |
| 24 | The WARM ( Waste As Raw Material ) report was commissioned by the Gateway supermarket chain and carried out by the Land Bank consultancy . |
| 25 | And in fact the there , most of the traffic calming is actually being paid for and carried out by the developer for that scheme . |
| 26 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 27 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 28 | Marie squints like she 's hurt herself and squats down by the chair . |
| 29 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 30 | ‘ You went out and came back by the yard door ? ’ |