Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |
| 2 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 3 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 4 | Isolation groove 7 may be filled with insulation or replaced by a high resistivity region . |
| 5 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 6 | Inform your neighbours ; notify the local fire brigade if required by a local byelaw . |
| 7 | Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations . |
| 8 | The cell nuclei were stained with propidium iodide and analysed by an EPICS V Flow Cytometer ( Coulter , UK ) . |
| 9 | A LAWYER-FREE small claims procedure , easily operated by the do-it-yourself litigant and staffed by a new body of volunteer ‘ civil justices ’ , is needed to combat problems of cost and delay Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , said . |
| 10 | Then came a box of hats , huge , wide , heavy affairs swathed in pleated velvet and accompanied by an army of pins to secure them . |
| 11 | Something of the flavour appears in a cryptic note sent from North to Rafsanjani late in 1986 , when Ghorbanifar had been dropped from the equation and replaced by a more promising-seeming young Iranian official , the ‘ Second Channel ’ . |
| 12 | above shall have effect until approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament . … |
| 13 | To reach Ireby , descend alongside the wall heading south-west , crossing it where convenient and continuing down the other side until confronted by a large shakehole with a floor of boulders . |
| 14 | Bernice was fairly sure that if she asked whether she was , at that moment , on a lumpy excrescence on a strand of spaghetti stretching into the Doctor 's future and surrounded by a soup of probabilities , she would n't like the answer . |
| 15 | A PAIR of tramps in the cellar of an abandoned hotel lengthily airing their psychological underwear until evicted by a ( superficially ) heartless boilerman : we seem to have been here before . |
| 16 | This dock , to the east of the Albert Dock and connected by a passageway 19.8 metres wide at coping level measures 457 metres long by 198 metres wide with a jetty 305 metres long by 76 metres wide in the centre adjoining the east end . |
| 17 | Three years ago , the Ward family were held at gunpoint and threatened by a gang of raiders at their home in Turweston . |
| 18 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 19 | These images were stored on video tape and processed by a MS-DOS computer , using a video grabber , and processing software ( IBAS , Kontron GmbH , Munich , Germany ) . |
| 20 | Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk . |
| 21 | The stereotype of the Mexican peasant , dwarfed by his sombrero and sitting by a cactus should , perhaps , be more realistically presented as listening to his radio set . |
| 22 | Tupper tells the story that for the evening following that most notorious of all war crimes committed between 1914 and 1918 , the torpedoing and sinking by a German U-boat of the unarmed liner Lusitania , with 702 seamen and over 1,000 passengers , including women and children on board , on 7 May 1915 , a concert had been arranged at Eastcote , with artistes from London and Northampton . |
| 23 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |
| 24 | Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines . |
| 25 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 26 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 27 | I am prepared to criticise that action when taken by a Conservative council . |
| 28 | An exceptional case , who was clinically classified as primary amyloidosis because no predisposing disease could be recognised , showed deposits of AA protein as evidenced by a positive stain for anti-AA antibody , which was sensitive to KMnO 4 reaction . |
| 29 | Kinase reactions were perfomed such that the DNA-PK phosphorylated over 50% of the Jun-Core protein as judged by a kinase-induced mobility-shift of phosphorylated Jun-Core as observed by SDS-PAGE and Coommassie Blue staining . |
| 30 | Von Uexkull illustrated this definition by his unforgettable pictures of the living-room as seen by fly , dog , or man , and of the fish and the boat as seen by a sea-urchin . |