Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 2 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 3 | They usually resent any guidance from Central Office , and sometimes deliberately pick as their candidate someone reckoned by headquarters to be a dead loss . |
| 4 | There 's a good chance that someone affected by alcoholism works for you . |
| 5 | He had the look of someone felled by sleep , and just wakened . |
| 6 | There is nothing manufactured by man that has not been designed , because whether it 's a Rolls-Royce engine or a piece of printed paper , there 's always a decision to be made not only about what it 's going to look like but about how it is going to be made and how it is going to operate . |
| 7 | All evils have to be dealt with ; nothing happens by accident ; every occurrence that threatens his existence has to be explained . |
| 8 | For nothing done by Hitler in the external sphere during Eden 's time at the Foreign Office aroused any public reaction remotely comparable to that which engulfed Hoare over Abyssinia . |
| 9 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 10 | Diana in Private : The Princess Nobody Knows by Lady Colin Campbell Smith Gryphon , £15.99 DIANA IN PRIVATE is a nasty little book . |
| 11 | In the first place , everyone travels by car and therefore everyone has first-hand knowledge of how awful the roads are . |
| 12 | The choice between going for a company limited by shares or one limited by guarantee is thus largely dependent on whether the surveyors involved are having to put up most of the funds themselves . |
| 13 | While some may see the whole area of aesthetic response as one limited by hedonism or elitism , or may wish to view it as a superficial frill of little relevance to the real world of materialistic values , others are able to propose valid reasons why investigation into the nature of aesthetic experience should be pursued . |
| 14 | The typical company — one limited by shares — must issue some shares , and the initial presumption of the law is that all shares confer the same rights and impose the same liabilities . |
| 15 | A third example is a hypothetical one devised by Imre Lakatos . |
| 16 | Inspired by this success , Sylvestra embarked on more which grew into an exhibition ‘ including one commissioned by Julian Glover of him and his dresser — a colourful character known as Black Mac , and one of David Bradley talking to himself as Justice Shallow in Henry IV Part 2 . |
| 17 | No one wins by defending . |
| 18 | You may not realize this but the name ‘ Grand Canyon ’ was actually one developed by DisneyWorld who own and run the place . |
| 19 | Pressed by Macho , the colobus jumped into Ulysse 's tree , and then into the one guarded by Fitz , who , with an impressive rush , caught the colobus . |
| 20 | An anti-siphon valve ( here one made by Hunter ) can be solvent-welded or pushfitted into a ring-seal socket on the pipe to be ventilated . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's because it 's the only one made by Bernini himself . |
| 22 | The most commonly used genetic classification is the simple one formulated by Johnson and includes the following four categories of shorelines , which he uses almost synonymously with coastline here : |
| 23 | Since the expected rate of inflation is zero , the appropriate Phillips curve is the original one depicted by A in Fig. 6.4 : the economy is at point D where NUP is the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 24 | There 's a slightly different list in the table one produced by Mr , as from the erm the criteria which are set out from the section in paragraph one three of this paper . |
| 25 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 26 | Mr Swan added there was no real need for the course as a nearby one owned by Aycliffe Town Council would soon be doubled in size to 18 holes . |
| 27 | The two best-known ones are the one undertaken by Augustus Caesar , which allegedly affected the birth of Jesus , and the Domesday Survey compiled at the instigation of William I. Both of these were attempts by an occupying power to extend its control over the population and , no doubt , record the spoils of victory . |
| 28 | The National Rivers Authority has said , unless water authorities reduce the number of leaks it 's unlikely to approve new reservoirs such as the one planned by Thames Water in South Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | ) . Her version of the truck reversing problem is similar to the one given by Kong and Kosko ; see Kosko ( 1992 ) , although her solution is different . |
| 30 | The definition of socialism which I can grasp most readily , because it is so simple , is the one given by George Bernard Shaw in 1928 : ‘ Socialism is an opinion as to how the income of the country should be distributed . ’ |