Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] by " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dulles , too , seemed more impressed than Eisenhower by the British arguments , and did not always hide his anti-Nasser bias . |
| 2 | The reason is that the vivid phrase which the investigator had chosen to ‘ flag ’ what he considered to be an issue of concern was seen as exaggerated and alarmist by academics . |
| 3 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 4 | In the course of his libel proceedings against Tolstoy , Lord Aldington stated that he had been succeeded as BGS by Brig de Fonblanque on 21 May , in order to return to England the following day ( the last document bearing his personal initials was the " definition Order " of 21 May ) . |
| 5 | The new Archdruid of Wales , the Rev John Gwilym Jones , of Bangor , will be installed as president by his predecessor , the Rev Dr Stanley John , on Wednesday evening at Ebenezer Chapel . |
| 6 | However it is recognized that decisions by overseas students to accept or reject offers are influenced by a more complex set of factors than for home students , and there remains uncertainty over the appropriate offer ratios to be applied . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it must be recognized that co-operation by itself can not compensate entirely for inadequate funding . |
| 8 | He teaches that all thoughts , all concepts , all images must be buried beneath a cloud of forgetting , while our love divested of thought must rise toward God , hidden in a cloud of unknowing : ‘ He is not to be gotten or holden by thought but on'y by love . ’ |
| 9 | I have therefore decided that transactions by banks and building societies in gilts will , from now on , be included in the funding definition . |
| 10 | Our 24th Annual Rally in Norwich last March was well attended and demonstrations by the Norfolk Display Team as well as Class Displays were applauded by the Adult Education Organisers , all ladies except for Mr. Michael Edwards , Principal Adult Education Officer for Norfolk . |
| 11 | This exercise , organized and stage-managed by the Party , was presented by the official press and propaganda machine as a spontaneous demonstration of popular backing for Franco and , by extension , as " proof " that the Spanish regime did not need validation from outside . |
| 12 | From the roadside a short distance west of Blindbeck Bridge , a cart track branches off at a tangent and climbs easily to the shallow depression between Barbon Low Fell and Barbon High Fell , having the stream ( named as Aygill by the Ordnance Survey and as Barkin Gill by the caving fraternity ) away on the left . |
| 13 | Common law constitutes the law and customs of ancient lineage that have been upheld as law by the courts in cases decided before them . |
| 14 | On the death of Pepin le Bref , his sons Charles and Carloman immediately had themselves proclaimed as kings by their supporting nobles , and were anointed by their respective bishops . |
| 15 | It is a true arms race in which success on either side is felt as failure by the other side , but the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is very different . |
| 16 | No 6888 was built as C-47A-1 by Douglas at Oklahoma City as 42–92320 , but diverted to the RAF , becoming Dakota III FZ572 and was taken on charge at Nassau in December 1943 , joining the SAAF as 6821 the following month and served with 5 Wing ( 28 and 44 Squadrons ) until joining SAA as ZS-BXF in August 1948 . |
| 17 | Then , inconsistent test methods meant that the same cooker could be rated as 800W by one manufacturer , and 650W by another — little help when trying to follow instructions for heating convenience foods . |
| 18 | After the third treatment , colic in the right upper abdomen stopped and food by mouth was started without problems . |
| 19 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 20 | In newly constructed areas application of the Woonerf principle had become well proven and routine by the early 1980's . |
| 21 | But not all pupils enter school at age 5 with the same experience and competence : some will be further advanced than others by virtue of their family background . |
| 22 | They had previously been produced and Coventry by what was called knife-and-fork methods — no jigs but highly skilled operatives . |
| 23 | To the Queen , Cranmer was not only detestable as a heretic but odious as the man who had arranged her mother 's divorce ; he had however been legally consecrated as Archbishop by order of the pope , and only the Pope could hand him over for judgement and punishment by the civil power . |
| 24 | Polymers of ethylene glycol with a molecular weight averaging 600 ( PEG 600 ; HO- ( CH 2 -CH 2 O ) nH , n=9–18 ; supplied as Macrogolum by Apoteksbolaget , Sweden ) were used as a marker of intestinal permeability . |
| 25 | They were also handicapped as conmen by not being able to master the language so , after a few months , they landed back in England with altered names and appearances . |
| 26 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
| 27 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 28 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 29 | Ammonia is produced as waste by the fish , and in new or unfiltered ponds , this can accumulate to a level which causes their death . |
| 30 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |