Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers women , Coward argues , the fantasised pleasure ( and apotheosis of sexual desire ) of finding security in the strong arms of the hard-bitten patriarchal hero , along with the pleasure of having ‘ tamed ’ him and domesticated his wild ways by the power one enjoys over him in being a woman . |
| 2 | By a farcical inversion of football 's heightened history , Scotland has turned its back on triumph and measures its footballing encounters by the barometers of disaster and The most memorable in Scottish football are defined by calamity rather than magic . |
| 3 | I shook my sand-filled ears by the lobes and listened . |
| 4 | It 's clear the bats enjoy their highrise homes by the Thames , it means they can hide away , when unwelcome visitors call round . |
| 5 | Unify , which unveiled a bunch of Accell enhancements last year — including Accell/SQL , a gateway that provides Unix-to-IBM DB/2 access , and Accell/TP , its Tuxedo-based transaction processing language — says it hopes to begin releasing its object-oriented products by the end of this year . |
| 6 | The Moldavians , given an ultimatum by Mr Gorbachev to settle their ethnic conflicts by the year 's end , decided to compromise rather than test the president 's readiness to resort to force . |
| 7 | And if he would have preferred it not to be Frizingley , to be , in fact , anywhere else but there , he managed to quell his initial misgivings by the grim reminder that he would be unlikely to know anyone in St Jude 's now . |
| 8 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
| 9 | The bottle you tasted six months ago is now softer and more appealing ; the one you drank yesterday should have lost its sharp edges by the summer . |
| 10 | ‘ John Aldridge and I , who live in the same village , decided that we would try to print our own designs by the roll from our own blocks . |
| 11 | Soviet agriculture was relatively backward , even though the volume of production had , overall , overtaken its pre-1914 figures by the mid-1920s . |