Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 2 | She was delighted by the carefree lightness of her voice as hastily she began to move to the side of the bed , inwardly quaking but determined not to reveal by the merest movement her reservations to him about revealing her total nakedness by the growing light of day as it filtered through the perpendicular blinds . |
| 3 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 4 | And school holidays and you 've got your grandchildren or grandchild come to stay with you and granddad has his favourite chair by the side of the fire . |
| 5 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 6 | In the process of heading up , place your front foot by the mastfoot in anticipation of the rush to get round to the new tack . |
| 7 | However , on May 29 , 1991 , the draft constitution was given its first reading by the Grand National Assembly . |
| 8 | By night Malta suffered its first raid by the recently-arrived BR 20Ms of the 43° Stormo B.T. , ten of these bombers operating . |
| 9 | Having received the colour mailshot which highlights the exciting new collection of carpets and curtain fabrics by Stoddard Templeton , customers are encouraged to visit their local retailer by the offer of a free pen . |
| 10 | Rothesay Pavilion , the Glenburn Hotel , slot machines and sunburn , and a new invention on an island granted its Royal Charter by the King of Scotland in the year 1401 … the Co-Op Holiday Camp . |
| 11 | ‘ AT THE tail-end of 14 years in power our rump of a Conservative Government can think of nothing but half-hearted socialist measures , as if through introducing socialism by the back door it will somehow ease its own exit by the front ’ — Commentator Auberon Waugh . |
| 12 | The name of the plant describes its historical use by the ladies of Venice who used the plant in the belief that its property of dilating the pupil of the eye converted them into lustrous wide-eyed beauties . |
| 13 | One per cent of the sample had puffed their first fag by the age of four , but the bulk of experimentation is carried out by 9–12 year olds . |
| 14 | On the pro-forma basis , our hopes , which of course not yet been born out , that interest rates will be declining er , will give us some advantage by the year end , as a number of caps and swabs which we put in place during nineteen ninety one , unwind . |
| 15 | Suppose by reorganizing production it was possible to produce at point B to the north-east of A. If David and Susie assess their own utility by the quantity of goods they themselves receive , and if they would each rather have more goods than less , B is a better allocation than A since both David and Susie get more . |
| 16 | Provided people assess their own utility by the quantity of goods that they themselves receive , B is a better allocation than A which in turn is a better allocation than C. But a comparison of A with points such as D , E or F , requires us to adopt a value judgement about the relative importance to us of David 's and Susie 's utility . |
| 17 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 18 | This indicates that somatostatin — and probably also octreotide — has no direct effect on the gall bladder but exerts its inhibitory action by the myenteric plexus . |
| 19 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 20 | His muse had taught him Irish — his nurse had taught him Irish , beg your pardon — and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth . |
| 21 | The royal forests of England had almost certainly reached their widest extent by the end of the reign of Henry II . |
| 22 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 23 | The agreement provoked widespread opposition in France where pressure to reject the deal led on Nov. 25 to the approval by a majority in the National Assembly of a government motion threatening to veto its final approval by the EC . |
| 24 | This week I contacted Gateshead college and was told that the pressure on the access fund was such that the college could have spent its yearly entitlement by the end of the first week of the academic year . |
| 25 | The judgement of the dead gradually came under the authority of Osiris , reaching its developed form by the New Kingdom . |
| 26 | Tabitha seized her chief aggressor by the neck with both hands . |
| 27 | The harp was brought to her and she took her customary seat by the huge fireplace in the north wall . |
| 28 | The Senator took his elder son by the elbow and , still talking , motioned him to stroll with him along the deck . |
| 29 | Cameron and Menzies felt themselves half-lifted inside by the arms . |
| 30 | Now that he owned his own studio by the banks of the River Colne he could play the mogul to the technicians , artists and directors he had gathered there . |