Example sentences of "for the [adj] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the traditional way for the rich to travel by water — and in Egypt everyone travelled by water . |
| 2 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 3 | Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded . |
| 4 | By achieving these aims we can build an Employment Service for the 1990s valued by our clients and by us all . |
| 5 | By achieving these aims we can build an Employment Service for the 1990s valued by our clients and by us all . |
| 6 | The conditions of life for the powerless created by the powerful are simply ignored by those who explain crime as a manifestation of individual pathology or local neighbourhood friendship and cultural patterns — yet in many respects the unrecognized victimization of the powerless by the powerful constitutes a part of those conditions under which the powerless choose to commit crimes ; |
| 7 | The French Corps des Galères was suppressed in 1748 ; and by the time of the French Revolution , except for the few maintained by the Spanish fleet and one or two in the navies of the small Italian States , galleys had disappeared from the sea which they had so long dominated . |