Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 2 | Seven ministers , including Pashko , Minister of Defence Perikli Teta and Minister of Finance Genci Ruli , were members of or proposed by the DP . |
| 3 | The choice of treatment may be skewed towards that which can be paid for , rather than that which may be in the best interests of or preferred by the patient . |
| 4 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 5 | Syllabic is most common after alveolar plosives and fricatives ; in the case of and followed by the plosive is nasally released by lowering the soft palate , so that in the word ‘ eaten ’ , for example , the tongue does not move in the sequence but the soft palate is lowered at the end of so that compressed air escapes through the nose . |
| 6 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 7 | This step is the preparatory part of the process and in its ideal form it produces an electron in one of those well-defined states of motion which we have learnt to think of as represented by a vector in a vector space . |
| 8 | Obviously where an agency contractual or ostensible has been created and the agent behaves improperly , whether by exercising undue influence upon or by making false representations to the surety , then the creditor will be held vicariously responsible for and affected by the acts of the agent committed in the execution of the agency . |
| 9 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
| 10 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 11 | School , paid for and sponsored by the state , provides the only effective means of inculcating the values which the state would wish its future citizens to hold . |
| 12 | ( Incidentally , I suspect the risks of abuse would be considerably less if the ‘ pay ’ were fought for and won by a united feminist campaign on the grounds that housewives work and deserve money for that reason , than if it were graciously granted by government in a mood of pronatalist , pro-family , antifeminist zeal to cut the costs of the social services . ) |
| 13 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 14 | as if summoned by the music , a pang assaulted her heart . |
| 15 | As his hand closed on the rubber border , the man appeared to steady , staring fixedly as if fascinated by the spectacle . |
| 16 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 17 | This triggers chemical changes in your body , which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance . |
| 18 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 19 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 20 | For long moments Frankie was held as if transfixed by the man 's gaze . |
| 21 | as if moved by a key , her own head turned until she confronted him . |
| 22 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 23 | He said this as if amused by the thought . |
| 24 | An order made by a court in any part of the United Kingdom in bankruptcy proceedings can be enforced in any other part of the United Kingdom as if made by the corresponding court in that other part except in so far as the order relates to property situated there ( unless the Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor make provision for this ) ( s 426(1)-(3) ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Gettogeddon ’ is one of the biggest noises you ever heard : this is house as if made by an orchestra , not a sampler . |
| 26 | They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light , as if embraced by a holy nimbus . |
| 27 | It flashed from the woodwork and the walls ; it smote him with an awful , total power , as if generated by a vast mill . |
| 28 | The skin of his face hung on its framework like the hides of the penthouse , and weariness and anger and pain scored his brow as if done by a hatchet . |
| 29 | He did not feel afraid of the ghost and tried to speak to him , but the figure was sad and morose as if struck by a remorseless tragedy . |
| 30 | ‘ Mrs Crump , I presume , ’ said Hope , gallantly slicing through the knot , and then he stood back as if struck by a startling thought . |