Example sentences of "[vb past] by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large boulders stood out beside the path as grey blobs in the featureless sheets of pale grass , and flat stones had been placed as bridges across the burns , their backs hollowed by the tread of feet through the centuries . |
| 2 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 3 | This is a parasitic pneumonia ( P1.II ) caused by the aspiration of eggs and L1 into the alveoli . |
| 4 | A greater problem of time is caused by delay in the hearing of AJRs caused by the volume of applications and the two-stage nature of the AJR procedure . |
| 5 | Among red brick terraces , under grey skies and deafened by the whine of jets swooping down to Heathrow airport , a nation had chosen to found a colony in exile . |
| 6 | A person of ‘ quality ’ — such as a member of the landed gentry or the clergy — would be at the top of their scale , commanding a funeral similar to that organized by the College of Arms for a knight bachelor , with paupers and wayfarers coming in at the bottom . |
| 7 | The top line on the picture is even more speculative , but informed by the analysis of 32-year-olds discussed above , it traces what the person would earn with identical characteristics other than that of being male and staying throughout in full-time employment . |
| 8 | Competitive Regulation : here , the aim is to ensure that competition is not eliminated or seriously hampered by the formation of cartels . |
| 9 | The drive to Kent had been a difficult , slow journey hampered by the volume of tourists who poured on and off the cross-Channel ferries . |
| 10 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 11 | This great plate — adorned with a few ‘ hot spots ’ , where plumes of magma have spurted to the surface randomly to form such agglomerations of islands as the Hawaiian chain , the Marquesas , the Tuamotos , the Tubuais and that tiny British possession the Pitcairn group — is almost universally deep , has a floor covered with siliceous oozes and red clays and is dotted with millions of volcanic abyssal hills discovered by the trailing of arrays of echo-sounders . |
| 12 | De Gaulle now had to deal with political parties reinvigorated by the return of elections and normal democratic processes . |
| 13 | By 1700–25 the funeral furnishing trade had become firmly established , providing funerals for all classes of society and at various costs , dependent on the social status of the deceased , basing their street ritual and panoply on that exhibited by the College of Arms during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , diluting or adding to it accordingly . |
| 14 | Workers in Gloucester were aware of the difficulties … but shocked by the level of redundancies : |
| 15 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 16 | The majority of the court , while dismissing many of the arguments that had found favour in Re Anschuetz and earlier cases , did little to advance the position from that reached by the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz . |
| 17 | We asked men and women what they understood by the oppression of women , what changes the new society would bring for them and what they hoped to contribute to that new society . |
| 18 | Ho ! ’ accompanied by the shuffle of feet and a background of muttered curses . |
| 19 | The new rules still fall short of the ‘ positive consent system ’ proposed by the European Commission and agreed by the Council of Ministers last month . |