Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collections are dominated by seeds probably of the mustard and caper families , Zizyphus stones , grass grains , and seeds of leguminous plants ; the unidentified material consists of many examples of a few types . |
| 2 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 3 | Event organised by Time Off For Women , PO Box 9 , Ashton-Under-Lyne , Lancs OL6 8DH . |
| 4 | The public meeting has been organised by Churches Together in Redcar , an inter-church body representing 15 churches in the town . |
| 5 | Many three-bedroomed houses occupied by single people or couples could be occupied by families now on the council 's waiting list , it says . |
| 6 | At 72 he 's preparing to do it all again , landing by parachute along with scores of other veterans to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous battles in history . |
| 7 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 8 | Detectives have established a special squad to target known criminals , but they say many break-ins are committed by burglars already on bail for earlier crimes . |
| 9 | Starting in 1968 , the whole adult population registered with the Glyncorrwg practice was screened for hypertension by a system of case finding supplemented by call up on a five year cycle . |
| 10 | ABOUT 30 people may have been massacred in Kinshasa , Zaire , on Monday , after a bar-room brawl over a woman led vengeance-seeking Zairian troops to fire indiscriminately on two funeral processions , killing the wrong targets , human rights and business sources reported by telephone yesterday from Abidjan , on the Ivory Coast . |
| 11 | The labour shortage in the USSR has been forecast by demographers now for nearly two decades . |
| 12 | Those who fly in are carried by escalator down to a railway platform . |
| 13 | The weapon is carried by Engineers either on horseback or in one of the Engineers School 's War Wagons . |
| 14 | A cause of action which did not exist when the summons was issued can be added by amendment only with the consent of the other party ( Chuan Chow Maritime v K/S A/S Bulk Transport ( 1984 ) The Times , 25 February ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Propeller , ’ he said , his voice distorted by wire still in his throat . |
| 16 | The long , low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls , openings and window frames . |
| 17 | Slowly constrained by muscles mostly in the grip of rigor mortis , the zombies advanced inexorably on the few remaining Marines . |
| 18 | An elderly woman was rescued by firemen yesterday after locking herself in her home in Topping Close on Hartlepool 's Headland . |
| 19 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 20 | The twice world champion 's case was considered by Lightman immediately after one in which Higgins was the complainant in a disrepute charge against his former manager , Howard Kruger , who resigned from the association 's board last weekend . |
| 21 | High Court judges and circuit judges are addressed by barristers out of court as ‘ Judge ’ ( not ‘ Judge Smith ’ ) , a Law Lord as ‘ Lord Smith , ’ and other judges as ‘ Lord Chancellor , ’ ‘ Lord Chief Justice ’ ( or ‘ Lord Chief ’ ) , ‘ Lord Justice , ’ ‘ Master of the Rolls , ’ ‘ President , ’ ‘ Vice-Chancellor , ’ ‘ Common Sergeant , ’ and ‘ Recorder . ’ |
| 22 | It was pumped by steam up to tanks at the top of a high brick-built tower , a landmark for miles around , then gravity-fed to the Hall . |
| 23 | Avoiding an unfavourable current can often be done by tacking close to the shore since the water is normally slower when moving at shallower depths . |
| 24 | However , Peter Firstbrook 's series , lucidly scripted and fronted by Edward Behr , makes no secret of having set out to make one kind of series ( Wither China ? ) and then being armlocked by events in to another ( Withered China ? ) |
| 25 | The victim of Monday night 's shooting in Derriaghy , Co Antrim , was named by police yesterday as Mr Robert Colin Burns , who converted to Roman Catholicism after marrying . |
| 26 | But a lot of the evidence which convicted the gang was found in rubbish left outside Lawless Cottage , collected by detectives instead of the bin men . |
| 27 | On the one hand , the sterility of machine culture and the terrible isolation often felt by people even in overcrowded cities ; on the other hand , a taking for granted of many basic rights and freedoms which in your day have not even been thought |
| 28 | His insistence that there would be no lengthy liberal democratic interregnum , but instead a fusing of the two revolutions , was belatedly accepted by Lenin only after the February 1917 revolution . |
| 29 | The specifications will then be transmitted by modem over to the Far East for manufacture , and the final products shipped back , by air , to the UK for testing . |
| 30 | Looking by chance out of his kitchen window , Auguste was amazed to see a donkey cart with Egbert Rose and yes — Stitch driving past . |