Example sentences of "[pron] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 2 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 3 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 4 | Recording a verdict that he killed himself by an overdose Liverpool coroner Roy Barter said : ‘ He had been complaining of anxiety and obviously felt vulnerable before Christmas . ’ |
| 5 | It will probably have been sold to you by an insurance broker or insurance company salesman and , at time of buying , you will have had a choice of four different types of investment policy : with profits , unit linked , deposit administration and non-profit policy . |
| 6 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 7 | He was proud to serve with the magnificent troops of this Division — Rajputs , Baluchis , Punjabis and Gurkhas amongst others — and to belong to an army given new pride and confidence in itself by an inspiring leader . |
| 8 | This may show itself by an improvement in the child 's behaviour or in the resolution of some lingering problem , such as the slight cough or persistently runny nose . |
| 9 | The basic argument was that traditional conservatism should re-establish itself by an uncompromising opposition to liberalism and socialism and by combating the supposed international Jewish conspiracy whose sole purpose was the undermining of the British Empire . |
| 10 | Our relationship had formed itself by an aggregation of layers . |
| 11 | ‘ Lets have an article updating the one by an NCT toddler about what to do with yourself through a week , ’ I said . |
| 12 | We may take , for example , two apparently very different books written by Englishmen serving in India in the 1920s — one by an evident diehard , one by an evident progressive — and see that they meet , in fact , upon this common ground . |
| 13 | We may take , for example , two apparently very different books written by Englishmen serving in India in the 1920s — one by an evident diehard , one by an evident progressive — and see that they meet , in fact , upon this common ground . |
| 14 | Any of your readers who caught Bill West in conversation with Melvyn Bragg and Nigella Lawson on ‘ Start the Week ’ , or who read Norman Stone 's review of his book in the Times , would have to assume there were two competing books bearing the same imprimatur — one by an articulate and well-informed author , the other by an incoherent eccentric . |
| 15 | Candidates identified with fundamentalist Islamic groups won six of the 11 contested seats ; four seats were won by candidates with PLO links and one by an independent . |
| 16 | This one by an excellent flower demonstrator called Ian . |
| 17 | A Christmas card sent to him by an AI member in Switzerland had been returned marked ‘ Consigned is free ’ . |
| 18 | McLeish advanced on the cabinet and shifted it authoritatively , ignoring the clip on the ankle dealt him by an unsecured bottom drawer apparently full of bricks . |
| 19 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |
| 20 | The spark of poetry was kindled in him by an elderly woman who lived with the family and was full of tales of witches and warlocks . |
| 21 | The only role created on him by an experienced choreographer was that of a Negro pugilist in Andrée Howard 's Mardi Gras , and that ballet , although striking in its strange , suggestive drama , was such an idiosyncratic , atmospheric piece that he was unlikely to learn much from it about form or structure . |
| 22 | Thus the ghastly memories brought back to him by an egg ; or his feeling , so terrible he does not express it , when 20 years after Maidanek his friend Michael has forgotten his name . |
| 23 | This was a tip given to him by an extremely well-known Test player . |
| 24 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 25 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 26 | He stood no taller than his daughter , probably she exceeded him by an inch or two , but he had the shoulders of a bull , and a great head of brindled brown hair laced with grey , like his short , square beard . |
| 27 | Wilekin appeals to the lady to show pity on him by an appeal to her " " curteisi " " and her Christian pity : ( " Lady , lady , change your heart : your courtesy was ever good |
| 28 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 29 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 30 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |