Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The watchful French gunners behind Bois Bourrus soon pin-pointed the train by the tell-tale smoke from its engine , and it was forced to retire , a little ignominiously . |
| 2 | He had witnessed the death by hanging of two members of the Al Daawa al Islamiya who were believed connected with the attempt on the life of the Chairman . |
| 3 | In years gone by , some say , the Bank 's governor ( Eddie George , from July ) would have stopped the rot by calling somebody in to his office for tea . |
| 4 | If he had acted like any chauffeur of reasonable competence he could have stopped the fire by turning off the tap connecting the petrol tank with the carburettor . |
| 5 | Do n't try it , she said silently , knowing Dana had received the message by the way her eyes widened . |
| 6 | Hung was taught the style by a Shaolin monk named Gee Seen . |
| 7 | The 1988 Act has altered the position by giving governing bodies increased powers and greater financial independence while retaining accountability to parents as a whole . |
| 8 | Decisions as to political and social choice are made by the legislature , or by a person assigned the task by the legislature . |
| 9 | But it but it 's delayed the project by two years . |
| 10 | That has further delayed the report by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , to the Commons . |
| 11 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 12 | The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) . |
| 13 | This is not at all surprising given the insistence by magistrates on the uniqueness of the cases appearing before them , which is why they utterly reject calls for consistency ( Parker et al. , 1999 ) , since these are seen to betray an ignorance of their own unique role in deciding each case on its particular merits . |
| 14 | But now his gaily-coloured runabout 's being given the runaround by the Guiness Book of Records . |
| 15 | But now his gaily-coloured runabout 's being given the runaround by the Guiness Book of Records . |
| 16 | Self-government for Scotland was given the thumbs-down by the Scottish business community , with more than 60 per cent of respondents saying that it would have a detrimental effect on business , while only 10 per cent thought there would be some advantage . |
| 17 | He was the model for the main character in the film , Altered States , and in his autobiographical novel , The Scientist , Lilly tells how he was given the drug by a doctor to cure a recurring migraine . |
| 18 | Lot , generously given the choice by his uncle , selects the fertile pasturage of the Jordan Valley . |
| 19 | Consigned for sale by Alexander Klee , grandson of Paul Klee who was given the painting by Kandinsky in exchange for one of his own , it is a sketch for ‘ Composition VII ’ of 1913 , now in the State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow , and widely considered the artist 's most innovative painting of that year . |
| 20 | Given the ball by Jamie Redknapp , Walters moved in from the left flank , used his famous double shuffle to find some space and then beat Hooper with a thunderous drive . |
| 21 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 22 | It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied . |
| 23 | For instance , TWW , supplanted by Harlech , was given the opportunity by the ITA of buying 40 per cent of the shares in the new company . |
| 24 | Surrounded by potential weapons , an inmate has to be given the all-clear by the prison 's hard labour board to ensure potentially dangerous prisoners do not work in the kitchen . |
| 25 | BELFAST 'S prestigious Castle Court complex has been given the all-clear by experts worried by bizarre glass explosions at modern buildings . |
| 26 | Certain persons are given the right by common law or statute in certain circumstances to sell the goods of another . |
| 27 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 28 | The plan looks unlikely to get agreement given the opposition by two of the bank 's largest shareholders . |
| 29 | Classically , when a person has a prognosis of terminal illness the next of kin will be given the information by a member of the hospital team who has been involved in the treatment of the ill person . |
| 30 | Schwob , who had been given the information by the federal prosecutor 's office , was also acquitted of violating official secrecy and awarded 30,000 Swiss francs in damages . |