Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less worried than Kennedy by the inevitable opposition of southern white politicians , Johnson plunged into the fray and pressed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the face of prolonged southern senatorial opposition . |
| 2 | Dulles , too , seemed more impressed than Eisenhower by the British arguments , and did not always hide his anti-Nasser bias . |
| 3 | She was shorter than Jimmy by a foot ; perhaps five foot three , and her long dark hair was cut to fall around her face in an old-fashioned sixties manner . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Portugal the French influence was strongest , led by Burgundy , and craftsmen and artisans had reached as far south as Lisbon by the mid-twelfth century . |
| 6 | Although not as devastated as Gunnerside by the effects of mining , this end of the dale none the less has its scars and wounds . |
| 7 | In order to avoid the hot weather my mother had preceded my father to England , escorted as far as Jibuti by an official from the Sudan who was temporarily serving at the Legation . |
| 8 | ‘ Be assured that everything possible is being done , ’ Alianor had told her — though in truth as mystified as Joan by the negative response to her requests . |
| 9 | The Method for Information Systems Enquiry , known colloquially as MINSE by the research project team , specifically addresses the problem of structuring the approach to information studies . |