Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 2 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 3 | The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 . |
| 4 | Our data is collected , validated and checked by a 120 strong team — using multiple sources to ensure reliability . |
| 5 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 6 | One of them , Prof John Sargent , was among a band of eminent researchers in Britain , the United States , Canada , Italy and France who were bullied , cajoled and encouraged by the Odones to help in producing treatment that would save their son 's life . |
| 7 | That a deep-seated and all-embracing blood taboo unquestionably lay at the heart of so much of Jewish belief and ritual practice is clearly evidenced by the later ( Christian ) book of Hebrews which saw fit to characterize Judaism specifically as a covenant of blood , sanctified , purified and redeemed by the blood of cultic sacrifice : |
| 8 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 9 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 10 | Both sides now were in need of respite ; peace endured until 1369 when the French , refreshed and led by a new and able young monarch , Charles V , confronted the English whose king was on the verge of senility and whose government was divided . |
| 11 | They all seemed brighter ; refreshed and strengthened by the morning 's events . |
| 12 | In a curious visionary text of the seventh century , Barontus , a monk of St Cyran , is told by St Peter not to hide his possessions , but instead to give away twelve solidi , each one weighed and signed by a priest , for the good of his soul . |
| 13 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 14 | Police said the raiders had taken £450 worth of sweaters but fled when disturbed by a passer-by . |
| 15 | The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press . |
| 16 | 5.14 Indemnities To be responsible for and to keep the Landlord fully indemnified against all damage damages losses costs expenses actions demands proceedings claims and liabilities made against or suffered or incurred by the Landlord arising directly or indirectly out of : |
| 17 | One must remember that Galileo was part of the Renaissance , the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century . |
| 18 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 19 | Raising her coffee-cup to her lips , she stiffened suddenly as Rourke came and stood by the entrance to the tent . |
| 20 | ‘ A 20th century Paladin ’ , cried US News World Report , a magazine that seldom let itself get too excited ; ‘ He stands alone as the sacrificed knight in the Iran-arms gambit , a true believer steeled and scarred by a lifetime of have-gun-will-travel missions . ’ |
| 21 | The occasional protests by staff through the years over pay and conditions had usually been dealt with quickly , abrasions salved and healed by the implicit belief that matters would eventually improve , if not tomorrow , then certainly by the day after — and that one was still having more fun than was to be had almost anywhere else anyway . |
| 22 | The cases , crafted and written by the executives themselves , become vivid examples of skilled incompetence . |
| 23 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 24 | Mr Leigh , visiting Malcolm Engineering in Banks Road , said the country lived and died by the competitiveness of its industry . |
| 25 | Within a week of the outbreak of war the co-operation of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was sought over the manning of merchant vessels requisitioned or chartered by the Admiralty and an agreement arrived at jointly with the Board of Trade . |
| 26 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 27 | I got to Blackberry Hill before Duncan showed and cruised by the barrier which marked the scene of the accident . |
| 28 | The fitness instructor described how she was grabbed from behind , blindfolded and assaulted by a man who never spoke . |
| 29 | To the fields brought in by IPC had been added others , discovered or developed by the national oil company INOC , under new-style arrangements , notably the Brazilian discovery Majnun , prominent in the fighting near Basrah in the 1980s . |
| 30 | Asia Watch , the US-based human rights organization , issued a report on May 28 which alleged that abuses by the Chinese authorities in Tibet had " greatly increased " over the last two years , and that torture was frequently used against protesters . |