Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spirit was dissuaded from returning to haunt the living by the relatives placing soil on the corpse to fasten it to the ground , putting burning embers outside the door to bar its path and whispering in its ear the plea that it would not return . |
| 2 | He told us how he had been encouraged by the responses received from the agri-food industry ever since he threw out a challenge to it some four months ago . |
| 3 | Contracts were " exchanged " — notionally , by the solicitors speaking to one another on the telephone — at 3.31 pm on 31 May 1990 . |
| 4 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 5 | In an inner room , beyond the typewriter cubicle , was a small cavern constructed of filing cabinets , inhabited by Dr Beatrice Nest , almost bricked in by the boxes containing the diary and correspondence of Ellen Ash . |
| 6 | Much later , the perehera was adopted by the Buddhists to display their most sacred relic . |
| 7 | Access to the innards of the machine is reasonably good ; the only problem lies in reaching the RAM upgrade slots , which are obstructed by the wires going from the hard drive to the ISA board . |
| 8 | A sensitive herself , Susan is first to feel the bids by the Sensorites to make telepathic contact . |
| 9 | By the December 1985 OPEC conference in Geneva , OPEC members were so exasperated by the inroads made in their traditional market by the ‘ non-OPEC ’ group that they evolved an entirely new , if short-lived , strategy . |
| 10 | In the field of child abuse , there is no existing body of research work or official data on how this is accomplished by the professionals involved . |
| 11 | As an outside observer drawn into the Statementing process by the professionals involved , I had a neutral but not disinterested role . |
| 12 | At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved . |
| 13 | It was a misperception of the parental perspective that was used by the professionals to legitimise the latter 's recommendations . |
| 14 | An analysis was therefore undertaken of whose chosen outcome was adopted by the lawyers studied . |
| 15 | A lot of hard work has been done by the members to raise money and gain support . |
| 16 | Sometimes he seemed to act almost as his " representative on earth " ; when Cecil Day Lewis was asked by The Times to compose Eliot 's obituary , he suggested to Hayward that they collaborate upon it . |
| 17 | Ivars Ozols was trained by the Soviets to fly , but suffered a crash in a Yak which involved a horrific forced landing through trees . |
| 18 | The look on the face of the Dog World supremo Mike Boulding , urged by the photographers to squat as close as possible to Des , was priceless . |
| 19 | The coverage by the columnists diverged from that in the main news stories on this question . |
| 20 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
| 21 | After the visit the information recorded by the groups needs to be pooled . |
| 22 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 23 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 24 | Very belatedly the Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the frogman seen by the Russians had been Crabb and , as a result , on 1O May the subject was aired in parliament . |
| 25 | Whatever stage of development any of the peoples of Siberia had reached , the occupation of their land by the Russians had a profound effect , either setting off entirely new social developments or accelerating trends which were already present . |
| 26 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
| 27 | That story , you see , was invented originally by the Russians to cover up the fact that Zbigniew was badly tortured by the guards before they shot him . |
| 28 | The adversary politics thesis developed by the reformers has also been variously challenged . |
| 29 | But its effect on spot oil prices — which skyrocketed — was used by the producers to justify a general price rise . |
| 30 | If those who are ‘ information poor ’ are simply exploited , international copyright may go the way of OPEC — exploitation by the producers followed by a weakening of the international market . |