Example sentences of "[vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 11,204 passengers disembarked by aeroplane . |
| 2 | The power of a shaman comes from the the raw Waaagh energy radiated by all the Orcs and Goblins near him . |
| 3 | I can see Lou Reed and Keith Richards playing one , and I suspect that some of the current Indie bands , champions of retro-style , could easily find themselves bewitched by the New York . |
| 4 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 5 | In 1649 he confessed that he had been transported and bewitched by Vulcan . |
| 6 | The labour movement bewitched by the enemy , bothered and bewildered by the passivity " of the people , waits like Micawber for something to turn up . |
| 7 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 9 | She went on , somehow bewitched by the enchantment of the surroundings into feeling totally relaxed . |
| 10 | But whether or not I am right about a Niemecz on paper 60 rpm for the machine 's flywheels , the tempo relationships of the pieces on all three machines ' barrels are a constant and it is interesting to see that the tempo range for pieces either minuet-like in character or specifically called minuets ( in available manuscripts or because of the music 's original sources ) roughly corresponds to the ranges of minuet tempos metronomized by Hummel and Czerny for Mozart and by Czerny for Haydn . |
| 11 | However , on examining the notice boards around the MOPs main building I saw displayed the measures of the improvements made in areas prioritized by senior management . |
| 12 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 13 | Here the Pacific Plate , bowed , stretched and strained by its westward movement , is moving away from its neighbour — in this case a relatively small fragment of lithosphere known as the Nazca plate . |
| 14 | It had been so stretched and strained by . |
| 15 | But mice sired by fathers that had been given morphine learn more slowly . |
| 16 | Mr Blue , though a magnificent dog himself , never really proved himself as a stud , whereas Superman , one of six champions sired by Bulli , became a prolific sire . |
| 17 | ‘ This one cost only 25,000 dollars , which is incredible for something sired by a champion sprinter . ’ |
| 18 | For example , Ralls ( 1977 ) argues that ‘ the intensity of intrasexual selection in a species should be proportional to the ratio of the lifetime number of offspring sired by a highly successful male compared to the number born by a highly successful female in her lifetime ’ while Payne ( 1979 ) suggests that the extent to which variance in breeding success differs between the sexes is important . |
| 19 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 20 | Of the systems of proportional representation , the one favored by the Liberal Party and the Electoral Reform Society is the single transferable vote ( STV ) system . |
| 21 | For a brief period of one year , 1977-1978 , the Labour government of James Callaghan entered into a Pact with the Liberal parliamentary party : in return for voting support in the House of Commons ( necessary to maintain its majority ) , the government modified certain policies of its own and introduced certain measures favored by the Liberals . |
| 22 | After a few moments she had relaxed fully , her apprehension shrivelled by the atmosphere of friendliness and laughter . |
| 23 | The force put through the footrest is more difficult to see — until you check out the soles of a GP star 's racing boots — which invariably boast great holes gouged by the footpegs . |
| 24 | We will now solve problem P2 which is problem P1 of Section 11.1 modified by requiring only x 1 and x 2 to be integers . |
| 25 | In The Person and Place of Jesus Christ ( 1909 ) , a book often regarded as his best , he found the two-nature doctrine of Christ deficient , inclining to the kenotic theory , which he modified by thinking of a ‘ pleroma ’ following the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus . |
| 26 | Unexplained action at a distance was permitted by Newtonians but dismissed by Cartesians as metaphysical and even occult . |
| 27 | Mohammed Ali Samater , was sworn in on Feb. 17 by President Mohammed Siyad Barre , replacing that dismissed by the President in January [ see p. 37174 ; for previous full listing see p. 36757 ] . |
| 28 | To find it so utterly demystified by these modern religions keen to allow people of today to understand … it really appals me . |
| 29 | Thus , although he provided a substantial quantity of employment , he was ( like the Matheson family before him ) beset by land agitation and raiding . |
| 30 | Talking about DOS , although there are no firm figures , it 's also a fair bet that there are still machines running DOS 2.1 and 3.2 , never mind 4.01 and the myriad other flavours DOS has gone through , their owners reasonable happy , but beset by problems that DOS 5.0 sorts out . |