Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] of [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud and his followers — and his former followers — described a number of mechanisms by which people protect or distort themselves , mechanisms such as repression , sublimation , projection , and so on . |
| 2 | He rejected the argument that keeping the facility for steers in Barnard Castle would be costly , saying it only involved a bit of paperwork by one of the officials at the mart . |
| 3 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 4 | PPB was all but abandoned by the incoming Nixon administration and in 1973 the US government adopted a system of management by objectives ( MBO ) . |
| 5 | He would not listen to her instructions and caused a lot of damage by climbing on furniture and shelves , banging things with his toys , knocking down displays in shops , and so on . |
| 6 | The law provoked a wave of strikes by immigrant Russian workers after it was passed in August . |
| 7 | In 1844 he signalled a change of direction by appointing Mikhail Vorontsov to the new post of Caucasian Viceroy . |
| 8 | At the time , his appointment seemed a stroke of genius by Tom Bradley , Los Angeles 's weary mayor of 20 years . |
| 9 | As she took her place she noticed a piece of paper by the side of her plate . |
| 10 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 11 | In the case of the Primitive Methodists , the poorest of the four leading denominations , the Connexion faced a debt of £1,003,207 by 1901 . |
| 12 | Indeed , claims by inexperienced dealers to be senior dealers became a matter of complaint by aggrieved clients . |
| 13 | To cope with the Gaullist surge ( and with the communist threat on their other flank ) , the centrist parties committed to the status quo made a virtue of necessity by banding together to form what they called the " Third Force " . |
| 14 | I do know that he outlived Great-Aunt Jane and he made a lot of trouble by claiming items of property to which he had no right . |
| 15 | Dr Williams , of Foxham , near Chippenham , admitted a charge of assault by beating and was ordered to pay £300 compensation to Dr Henry with £100 court costs . |
| 16 | Would you know she got a box of tissues by her bed . |
| 17 | Later Eichmann , faced with a lack of rail transport , began a programme of deportations by foot — ‘ death marches ’ along a 120-mile route from Budapest to the Austrian border at Hegyeshalom . |
| 18 | A second inquest in February 1987 , returned a verdict of death by misadventure . |
| 19 | Police say they are anxious to trace Kujabi after an inquest returned a verdict of death by unnatural causes . |
| 20 | At the end of a four-hour hearing , the inquest jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure . |
| 21 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |
| 22 | I like some of the heavier stuff from America : I heard a couple of things by Superchunk that I really liked , and obviously the Nirvana album was a ground-breaking record . |
| 23 | Moving to the dais , the Lord Lieutenant then heard a speech of welcome by Mr D G Titcombe , in which reference was made to the development of autocatalysts since 1970 , including the Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement made to the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre in 1977 . |
| 24 | Coroner Mr Leonard Gorodkin recorded a verdict of death by misadventure after hearing that Clare developed what was called an ‘ idiosyncratic reaction ’ to the drug . |
| 25 | A fractured skull and haemorrhaging of the brain were the causes of death , and after the official inquest the Coroner at Epsom recorded a verdict of death by misadventure . |
| 26 | Dr Douglas Chambers , the Poplar coroner , recorded a verdict of death by natural causes , prompting claims of a ‘ cover-up ’ from Mrs Bennett 's family . |
| 27 | Avon Coroner Paul Forrest recorded a verdict of death by natural causes . |
| 28 | The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure . |
| 29 | Arthur and Victoria McConnell made a formal complaint to the hospital after an inwquest recorded a verdict of death by misadventure . |
| 30 | The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure . |