Example sentences of "by [pron] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There are many countries and many greedy persons who will suffer themselves to be gulled by my promise of mountains of gold . |
| 2 | In fact the railway was quite prosperous in the early years of this century , crippled only by its burden of debts from the past . |
| 3 | Such slow-moving particles would not be detected in conventional particle-physics experiments , which register a particle 's passage by its ionisation of atoms in the detecting medium . |
| 4 | The portrait as genre here serves its traditional function in a postmodern world of fragmentation and exerts control on the narratives of subjectivity ( sitter/artist/spectator ) by its articulation of notions of continuity within syntactical disruption . |
| 5 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 6 | The confusion about the project has been made worse by the Government 's vacillation and indecision , and also by their lack of answers to my hon. Friends about where the finance for the project will come from . |
| 7 | It can be proposed that the ‘ market room ’ ( on the platform ) for newcomers who have not generated completely new demand markets , is provided by their capture of markets from local firms on the platform . |
| 8 | The great apes substantially share our intellectual powers , as demonstrated by their use of tools in captivity , but only chimpanzees use tools to obtain food in the wild ; they use twigs to fish termites out of holes . |
| 9 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 10 | He is not a man who courts company , often cutting a solitary and somewhat broody figure , but colleagues say he was frustrated by his lack of opportunities with England in the winter and , more recently , by his inability to build big innings for Middlesex . |
| 11 | Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 12 | That unrivalled reputation is supported with plants in both the United Kingdom and the United States where Stoway Masts ( in-mast furling ) , Stobooms ( in-boom furling ) and Seafurls ( manual and hydraulic headsail furling systems ) are manufactured and assembled , backed up by our network of agents in Europe and across the world . |