Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time I went I followed the route recommended by Peter ? |
| 2 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 3 | Congress tried to reassert some control over the budget process in 1974 , specifically to prevent President Nixon from refusing to spend ( impounding ) money appropriated by Congress . |
| 4 | Rights to insurance , housing and employment remain limited , and the severe discrimination endured by PWAs ( People With Aids ) is as real as ever . |
| 5 | Either unaided or acting upon a part bared by fire or other forms of human destructiveness , the wind starts to erode the dune . |
| 6 | The Manila composite index rose by 77% in 1991 and by 9% in 1992 . |
| 7 | Prices for the group of leading late nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculptors in the index rose by 1670% between 1975 and 1990 but fell sharply last year to give an overall rise of 715% . |
| 8 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 9 | In all three patients , subsequent laparotomy showed a distal CBD occluded by clips and a partially resected common hepatic duct , with free bile leakage into the abdominal cavity . |
| 10 | An inquest jury returned a verdict of misadventure aggravated by lack of care . |
| 11 | Pearce was staring wildly at Cardiff now , hair plastered by rain to his head . |
| 12 | I mean there was a superb advert made by film director and he made a superb ad advertisement |
| 13 | Action tried by Denning J. |
| 14 | I was rule reviewed by John . |
| 15 | Recorded crime rose by 6% last year ( compared with 16% in 1991 ) . |
| 16 | Between 1982 and 1986 the value of Chase 's stock rose by 86% : of Chemical 's by 97% : of Citicorps by 83% while Morgan and Banker 's Trust 's shot up by 142 and 154% respectively.10 |
| 17 | Gareth Rees , the gifted Canadian fly-half has already signed for the French club Merignac , a side captained by Philippe Berbizier , the brother of Pierre . |
| 18 | The second was against a South African Barbarians side captained by Philippe Sella and including Willie Ofahengaue , Peter Winterbottom and Philippe Saint-André . |
| 19 | The first instance of namesakes on either side in a Test match occurred in March 1889 , at Port Elizabeth , when Fred Smith kept wicket for South Africa against an England side captained by C.A. ‘ Round The Corner ’ Smith . |
| 20 | Only gradually did my colleagues and I come to realise that we were reporting on a social phenomenon — an aberration triggered by fear of being left behind in a pay race , aggravated by mounting greed and , finally , sustained by sheer bolshieness . |
| 21 | There have also been several periods of panic buying triggered by rumours of taxation or currency reforms . |
| 22 | The bank 's ethics code prevented it cashing in on the bonanza reaped by others from the pound 's departure from the European exchange rate mechanism last September . |
| 23 | Traffic congestion and parking problems caused by car boot sales could be reduced if the police were forewarned thus alleviating the considerable distress suffered by people living near to car boot sales sites . |
| 24 | Goff points to the contradiction that ensues when sociology attempts to take on the methodology sanctified by positivism for use in the natural sciences : |
| 25 | " Gentrification " , a term coined by Ruth Glass for this process , entered the vocabulary of planning debate . |
| 26 | The term coined by Banfield for this ethic is ‘ amoral familism ’ ; that it is ‘ amoral ’ is implicit in the exclusive pursuit of short-run material advantage ascribed to individuals in such societies , so that they lack any capacity to sacrifice immediate gains in favour of long-term advantage , and they are unable to associate any good to society as a whole with possible good to themselves or their family . |
| 27 | The approach became known by the term coined by Carr in the quotation : Realism . |
| 28 | This is Knowledge plc — a derogatory term coined by Pat Kane , singer , Scottish Nationalist and rector of the University of Glasgow . |
| 29 | Does this happen in any sense these days , do you think , or is religion supsuned by politics and economics and other facts of life ? |
| 30 | A paradoxical property of black holes is that they can radiate through a quantum field effect discovered by Hawking ( 1974 ) . |