Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not be supported by sticks or hooped frames to form ‘ tunnels ’ as movement in the wind may wear holes in it . |
| 2 | Having been abseiled onto while soloing , had my runners pulled on by top-ropers and queued while large parties top-roped routes too hard for them , the BMC can only be congratulated for finally taking the matter in hand with an award for single pitch supervisors . |
| 3 | The cave was several hundred yards across and just as high , dimly lit by lamps that stretched down from the indistinct ceiling on impossibly long cables . |
| 4 | Large amounts of undeveloped land , a finite resource , have been covered by roads and built development . |
| 5 | Only one , the Nevada , was able to get steam up but as she made off was struck by bombs and grounded . |
| 6 | The tests were then developed by experts and submitted to lay people and subject matter experts for reactions . |
| 7 | They were marked by projects that came to nothing and avenues of commitment that proved to be culs-de-sac . |
| 8 | He was not spared one concrete-balconied construction , one flat-topped esplanade of shops , one lowly bungalow surrounded by pebbles and called The Palms , one swinging wooden board with ‘ rustic ’ letters cut in it announcing that the frosted aluminium-framed windows and crazy pavings dotted with fountain bowls and outsize cupids , and pergolas leading nowhere , were part of a residence called Ourranch . |
| 9 | It looked fragile , held together by struts that seemed no longer than bits of wire . |
| 10 | I was woken by voices and saw two elderly ladies seated at a nearby bench , which had almost disappeared in the undergrowth . |
| 11 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 12 | Several times , late in the evening , we saw the whole northern sky illuminated by flares and heard the heavy , terrible rumblings of bombardment , although the city was 100 kilometres away . |
| 13 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 14 | Many cemeteries have almost been destroyed , either through neglect or by attacks by vengeful or greedy Czechs after the war , looking for gold said to have been left behind by Jews and expelled Sudeten Germans . |
| 15 | One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats . |
| 16 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 17 | Nearby ewes then ran away , followed by lambs that scampered after their mothers . |
| 18 | He said Wellcome could not benefit from tax breaks enjoyed by companies that had set up manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico . |
| 19 | Enter lively atoms of uranium-235 , soon stirred up by Punk-neutrons and slowed down by Mods . |
| 20 | This is why , coming home with the supermarket bags , we get barked at by second-assistant-directors and told to keep quiet and keep out of sight . |
| 21 | He knew that this tunnel-like place was shunned by tramps and feared even by drunks and peg-sellers . |
| 22 | Unexplained action at a distance was permitted by Newtonians but dismissed by Cartesians as metaphysical and even occult . |
| 23 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 24 | Co-ordination was still seen as predominantly a ‘ top-down ’ process by planners and did not at this time focus upon activities at the client level . |
| 25 | He pointed to the important public role occupied by universities and submitted that it was wrong that they should be immune from the general law of the land : ‘ There must be no Alsatia in England where the King 's writ does not run ’ : per Scrutton L.J . |
| 26 | were best achieved by organisations that held secure positions inside the enterprise , and unlike their European counterparts the unions in North America insisted on establishing their presence in the plant itself and not merely outside it . |
| 27 | This was the theoretical foundation for Tinguely 's ‘ Métamechaniques ’ , which were worked by motors and emitted noises and puffs of smoke . |
| 28 | That night he was woken by planes and saw flares over Berlin , bringing a moment of ‘ homesickness ’ that he was n't up there too . |
| 29 | Although these changes are usually the subject of fulminations against wage labour and the evils of rural or urban proletarianization , the conditions of wage labour may prove attractive to villagers and town dwellers , not necessarily because they are duped by promises or pressurized by taxes , but because of the very real specific constraints of non-monetarized social orders . |
| 30 | And , a point of critical importance , he himself had been educated by churchmen and shared , if not their institutional loyalty , then many of their aims and ideals . |