Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 1,000 people work on long-term — usually one-to two-year — secondments in the UK at present , many of them arranged by London-based secondment broker the Action Resource Centre . |
| 2 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 3 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 4 | It may be that when we express our opinions , we only have available to us ready-made sets of ideas , ‘ discourses ’ , other people 's words which we choose from , string together in different ways and think ( mistakenly ) to be our own ; these include ‘ expert ’ ideas and the colloquial , common-sense versions of them absorbed by ordinary people in one way or another . |
| 5 | During 1981–2 , twenty schemes of Unified Vocational Preparation were run in Wales , all of them sponsored by industrial training boards and the further education colleges . |
| 6 | Hospitals throughout the area were put on full alert as fleets of ambulances carried the injured , most of them hit by flying glass , to casualty departments . |
| 7 | A few chambers have set a shining example by stating that they will grant pupillages ( some of them accompanied by monetary awards ) by open competition ; if you wish to apply , write for details to John Stuart Colyer Esq . |
| 8 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 9 | So far , about 40,000 workers have gone on strike in roughly 80 steel and engineering companies , most of them owned by western German firms or the Treuhand , the agency privatising east German industry . |
| 10 | What 's more , almost none of them work by binary notation — the normal method for computers — because that 's just yes/no stuff . |
| 11 | There were even Jacobite ballads , some of them performed by itinerant singers ; in this way , the Jacobite message could be transmitted even to those who could not read . |
| 12 | No fewer than eight towers dominated the façade , six of them capped by shallow-hipped roofs , two of them flat , open , and balustraded , bearing flag-poles , and all arranged in a numbing symmetry . |
| 13 | Experiments on the biological effects of radiation were similarly hampered by the problems of measuring the intensity of radiation and the proportion of it absorbed by living tissues . |
| 14 | Similarly , the common good ( or rather , that part of it defined by legal rules ) is not taken to be an objective category . |
| 15 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 16 | Access to it varies by social class . |