Example sentences of "by the [noun prp] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 2 | We are continually told by representatives of the Labour Party that the policy of independence in Europe favoured by the SNP is completely untenable . |
| 3 | Having a programme suppressed the PR word is ’ postponed ’ by the BBC is rather like having a book banned by the Clogthorpe Public Libraries Committee . |
| 4 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |
| 5 | Time of Submission The time of submission of the application within the date set by the UCAS is not important ; all candidates are given equal consideration . |
| 6 | The Orwellian nightmare portrayed by the NCCL is already five years late and sounds , itself , what they call an ‘ extravagant claim … based on anecdotal evidence ’ . |