Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 1,000 people work on long-term — usually one-to two-year — secondments in the UK at present , many of them arranged by London-based secondment broker the Action Resource Centre . |
| 2 | There have been many positive developments , a large number of them led by this country such as the introduction of the single market . |
| 3 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 4 | During 1981–2 , twenty schemes of Unified Vocational Preparation were run in Wales , all of them sponsored by industrial training boards and the further education colleges . |
| 5 | Hospitals throughout the area were put on full alert as fleets of ambulances carried the injured , most of them hit by flying glass , to casualty departments . |
| 6 | What 's more , almost none of them work by binary notation — the normal method for computers — because that 's just yes/no stuff . |
| 7 | Imagine with me Chairman if you will the thoughts of someone trapped by some misfortune in the midst of the wreckage of a road traffic accident on the M 1 motorway Southbound between junctions twenty one and twenty that 's at Nutterworth or Northbound between twenty one and twenty two or Westbound on the M 69 they 'll be thinking the fire brigade 'll be here in a minute or two . |
| 8 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 9 | Cleveland police say the girl grabbed her shopping bag , fished out the purse and ran off with it joined by another girl . |
| 10 | Elizabeth was preserving her reputation , and the possibility of one day ruling her country , in the face of irresponsible sexual scandal about her created by one step-uncle , Thomas Seymour , her supposed lover , and of implacable hostility from the other , Edward duke of Somerset and protector of England . |
| 11 | Access to it varies by social class . |
| 12 | Individuals have a right of access to personal information about themselves held by local authority social services departments . |
| 13 | At the touch of a button , the metallic strip on an identity card will surrender every scrap of information about us stored by any government department , as well as whatever ‘ confidential ’ and uncheckable information may have been collected by secret means . |