Example sentences of "[vb past] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 2 | The committee , evidently nettled by this slur , informed Mr. R. G. Rose , the coroner for the North Bedfordshire district , that the council had , in fact , done all that they possibly could to get nurses but without success . |
| 3 | My mother was surprised and undoubtedly gratified by this question . |
| 4 | Warning — product package already referenced by another product |
| 5 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 6 | I hoped , though , that you would n't mind if I stopped by this morning ? |
| 7 | As he was leaving the office he stopped by another door . |
| 8 | Did he shoot the other people involved by any chance ? |
| 9 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 10 | The second son , Windham or ‘ Bloggs ’ Baldwin , the father of the present earl , lived a calmer life enlivened by some association with the fashionable literary world , and died in 1976 . |
| 11 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 12 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 13 | Interestingly , in normal colonic lamina propria most cells ( 87% ) recognised by these reagents seem to be positive for all three markers and can apparently function both as phagocytes and antigen presenting cells . |
| 14 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |
| 15 | All cheques shall be signed and countersigned by such persons as the Executive Committee shall determine . |
| 16 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 17 | At a meeting on 8 October 1992 hosted by this department and attended by representatives of District Council Planning Departments and the Scottish Wildlife Trust , the Trust indicated that following a re-survey of sites in Lothian , an updated list of Wildlife Sites with relevant maps will be made available to district planning authorities in Lothian early next year . |
| 18 | A concert featuring the ever popular music from Hollywood 's Silver Screen , non-stop show-stoppers from the thirties , forties and fifties composed by this century 's greatest composers of popular music . |
| 19 | I stress we are not anti-Europe and nor was this meant to be a mischievous motion , but we are very distrustful about any deal negotiated by any member of this government . |
| 20 | But the discussion on Polybius provoked by these pamphlets went on at intervals at least until 1783 . |
| 21 | The in-between bits — what some call life — seemed by such standards to be so much waste of time , which they could not be done with fast enough . |
| 22 | Here semi-formal learning still takes place in semi-formal learning centres , heavily intermediated by each learner 's powerful , portable , personal micro , a machine no more costly than a calculator is now . |
| 23 | ‘ Came by some scent , ’ said Constance vaguely . |
| 24 | The defendant who has a belief in consent will be acquitted no matter how he came by this belief and whether or not he considered the possibility of non-consent . |
| 25 | How early Pound came by this perception is not clear , but certainly he had no illusions from the first that his Cantos , building as they did on the rhythmical and thematic procedures of Homage to Sextus Propertius , would be found readily acceptable . |
| 26 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 27 | The majority of the other group of mainstream Protestants , so frequently castigated by these Puritans , held fast to an alternative religious outlook which , if perhaps more relaxed , was often no less valid or deeply felt . |
| 28 | It was strange and awkward , being dressed by someone else , seeing Lyddy kneel to put on her stockings , lace up her boots , feeling the steady foreign strokes on her head of a hairbrush wielded by another hand . |
| 29 | She was the only one encouraged by this choice of Uncle Knacker 's , recognising the touch of class she desired . |
| 30 | to see how structures uncovered by these techniques compare with research front structures identified by conventional historiographic , sociological and cognitive methods ; |