Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 2 | According to the application document , only homes which do not want to receive Channel 5 will be legally entitled to have their VCRs retuned free of charge by the licencee , who will have to settle the problem within three weeks of receiving a retuning request . |
| 3 | The use of the facilities for Saturday evening has very kindly been donated free of charge by the centre . |
| 4 | TOTTENHAM striker Gordon Durie , banned for three games after being found guilty of misconduct by the Football Association , will have his appeal heard on December 16 . |
| 5 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 6 | Assured of success by the dream of a warrior called Black Hair , twenty-eight warriors , including Ollokot , Looking Glass , Toohoolhoolzote , Two Moons and Bird Alighting , stealthily entered Howard 's camp at 3.30 a.m. to steal his horses . |
| 7 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 8 | The leadership was actually a collective one rather than a personal domination , and Law recognized his obligation to take the advice of those who were seen to be worthy of consultation by the party as a whole . |
| 9 | The Sergeant was short of expletives by the end of the tour of inspection . |
| 10 | Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ? |
| 11 | Godwin illustrates a well-dressed mantelpiece ( Fig. 40 ) which somewhat resembles the Toodles ' in Dombey and Son : ‘ the castle on the mantel-piece with red and green windows in it , susceptible of illumination by a candle-end within ; and the pair of small black velvet kittens , each with a lady 's reticule in its mouth ; regarded by Staggs 's Gardeners as prodigies of imitative art . ’ |
| 12 | The Australian government has made it easier to take action against the discrimination and demeaning of women by the country 's media . |
| 13 | Criminal charges and fines were other matters capable of adjustment by a politician , and again were likely to encourage lasting feelings of gratitude to the man who secured a suspension or remission . |
| 14 | It is the plaintiff 's case that [ the agreement ] created no term sufficiently identifiable to be capable of recognition by the law , and that accordingly no tenancy was created . |
| 15 | The lake has been swept clean of snow by the wind , the sweepings making a huge bank on our side that we have to negotiate . |
| 16 | Pacific Parallel Research Inc of Cardiff by the Sea , California has a T9000 interface for NuBus Macintosh computers with its Pac8 and Pac2 boards that can accept Inmos Ltd 's T9000 DevTRAM module . |