Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fair point , maybe , but one that smacks of the kind of social-comment spuriousness spouted by many fashion editors who ought to know better . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 5 | There comes a time when natural justice supersedes any law made by any government , and that time 's now . |
| 6 | Members will be aware that ex-Councillors and were unsuccessful at the polls and I wish to ask the Council to place on record its thanks to their contribution to the work of this Council made by those members and to wish them well in the future . |
| 7 | And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Council had by this stage resolved the issue of its degree classification , so that separate degrees with separate admission for honours and ordinary students were no longer to be offered . |
| 10 | Um nevertheless er there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that to include children , to include apparently emotionally immature people , in sexual relationships as you would with adults is is fundamentally abusive . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that um y'know kind of up to a certain age involving kids in sexual relations with adults is abusive because of the discrepancy in power , because of the discrepancy in physical size , because of a whole range of social discrepancies . |
| 12 | Table 17.2 shows changes in the volume of business transacted by these institutions . |
| 13 | In the absence of the protein product encoded by this transcript , it is not yet possible to predict which start signal is most favoured . |
| 14 | At the beginning of Aspel and Company I felt a bit daunted by this team of brilliant people who were , in some ways , doing my legwork for me , and the odd hiccup still arises from having lots of people on the case . |
| 15 | N G Os have shown over and over again that by working alongside a community they can help identify the barriers to development experienced by that community and they can support the community as it works to make social and economic progress . |
| 16 | ( F ) The Absence of a claim or of notice of accident by a Policyholder or other person indemnified by such Policy shall not prevent the operation of this Agreement between the parties hereto . |
| 17 | Nothing in this Policy or in any document thereon shall affect the right of any person indemnified by this Policy or of any other person to recover an amount under or by virtue of the provisions of the law of any territory in which the Policy operates relating to the insurance of liability to Third Parties . |
| 18 | Nothing in this Policy or in any Endorsement thereon shall affect the right of any person indemnified by this Policy or of any other person to recover an amount under or by virtue of the provisions of the law of any territory in which the Policy operates relating to the insurance of liability to Third Parties . |
| 19 | For all that there 's no denying the distaste felt by many London lawyers for tactics . |
| 20 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 21 | His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market . |
| 22 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 23 | He told them there was no point in producing a more expensive , national version of City Limits , the Right-On London listings magazine started by former employees of Time Out and helped into the world by the GLC . |
| 24 | I believe the government should have conducted a proper and wide review into the role and duty of auditors , not just in the area covered by these orders , but also throughout the whole of industry . |
| 25 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 26 | The formal notice foreshadowed by this letter was served on the applicant on 6 June . |
| 27 | In all cases reported , the lesions consisted in a defect resulting in lack of transcription of the mRNA encoded by these genes ( 8–10 ) . |
| 28 | The fear and revulsion felt by such parents has been well documented by the many parents who have initially wanted their child to die , and then gone on to bring up and care for their mentally handicapped child . |
| 29 | E-shaped , as was the fashion , it centred round its Great Hall , a reminder still of the public life lived by many Tudor leaders . |
| 30 | 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 . |