Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun sg] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been shaken rudely out of sleep by the sound of peremptory knocking on the back door of the farmhouse , at what felt like the crack of dawn . |
| 2 | But at least there is near unanimity that we really will be out of recession by the end of the year . |
| 3 | The Freedom of Information Act was emasculated almost out of existence by the Reagan administration . |
| 4 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 5 | Without new orders , the shipyard would have run out of work by the end of next year . |
| 6 | Chen says he is still looking for new sources of finance that would enable the company to re-hire the 320 people thrown out of work by the closure , but does not hold out much hope . |
| 7 | But once Naas Botha equalised in kind , the tourists edged ahead and were out of sight by the time Danie Gerber scored their fourth try in the last minute . |
| 8 | It was ruled out of order by the Standing Orders Committee as it fell foul of rule A three , the subject was within the remit of Congress . |
| 9 | But when it was discussed by councillors , a move to censure him was ruled out of order by the convener , Jackie Tait . |
| 10 | There were suggestions from the American air force that the controls may have been put out of order by the fire which caused the crash and that , even if the pilot had stayed in his cockpit until the collision , he would not have been able to do more . |
| 11 | If not , then he will be out of contract by the end of the year . |
| 12 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 13 | They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission . |
| 14 | We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed . |
| 15 | The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled . |
| 16 | Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried . |
| 17 | Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made . |
| 18 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 19 | If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide . |
| 20 | The situation will be reviewed this morning by a medical-nursing and management team but according to an insider , the five operating theatres knocked out of action by the bomb may not be deemed re-sterilised before Friday . |
| 21 | This condition is called Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency , occurring when the pancreas is put out of action by the body 's own immune system which is supposed to protect it — a possible autoimmune disorder ( see Dogs Today October issue ) . |
| 22 | They knew what this new attack would mean to them , that more little shopkeepers would be driven out of business by the poverty of the people and their inability to purchase goods . |
| 23 | They began eating hay , nuts , and even raw offal in enormous quantities , until slapped out of trance by the overseers . |
| 24 | He was out of breath by the time he had canted her back , ground her round , settled the chair on the rough track again . |
| 25 | By the time he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal in August of that year , observers were openly speculating as to whether he had become mentally unhinged and he was said to have lost his will to live . |
| 26 | Yordanov replaced Stefan Savov , also of the UDF , who had been forced out of office by the MNF and the BSP in September [ see p. 39105 ] . |
| 27 | A survey by Barnardos paints a picture of families running out of food by the weekend and of youngsters who ca n't go to school because they 've no shoes . |
| 28 | The 1990 edition of the World Bank 's World Development Report , published on July 16 , called for a new initiative aimed at " lifting 400 million people out of poverty by the year 2000 " . |
| 29 | There is something paradoxical about this aspiration to lift myself out of nature by the use of reason , since I can not without setting arbitrary limits to reason forbid the sciences of physiology , psychology and sociology to reincorporate me into nature , as a phenomenon in principle explainable and predictable like everything else . |
| 30 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |