Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MRS THATCHER went to the American heartlands yesterday and made clear when questioned by university students that she viewed with alarm the idea of Britain under a coalition government . |
| 2 | These days the only thing the notoriously fickle C2s seem capable of raising is the 10 per cent capital required by building societies before they hand over nine times as much money , which is in turn entrusted to the builders . |
| 3 | Paul , 23 , and Charlotte , 21 , were killed by boiler fumes as they slept at her mother 's home at Horsham , Sussex . |
| 4 | The explosives were unearthed by contract workers as they dug a trench on farmland alongside an RAF camp . |
| 5 | Therefore ‘ easing ’ , which is normally presented as the opposite to work , can for the neighbourhood men ( and also the community relations police ) be construed as official police work , and quite often much of the best community work is done by neighbourhood men when they seem to be relaxing . |
| 6 | Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends . |
| 7 | Klaus denied accusations by opposition parties that he was copying Poland 's " shock therapy " , and that he was deliberately using inflation to soak up excess purchasing power . |
| 8 | She said they were often stopped by autograph hunters when they are out with Vic , whose real name is Jim Moir . |
| 9 | THE Shamen were booed and jeered by football fans when they performed at half-time at Arsenal 's home game against Manchester City on Monday night . |
| 10 | On the following day , 7 November , there would be a joint parade by trade-union representatives and their military comrades . |
| 11 | On Sept. 4 a member of the High Council of the Republic ( HCR ) , Madeleine Adayoma , was flogged by security personnel as she left the Lomé radio studios after taking part in a programme . |
| 12 | The crowd are held back by security guards as they try to divert a stream which is running across the front of the stage . |
| 13 | And right now the term competitiveness is used to basically get by safety regulations and anything else concerning safety . |
| 14 | The career of the talented Widnes half back has been put in jeopardy by back injuries and he saw a specialist yesterday . |
| 15 | There is a lot of anxiety displayed by handicap golfers when they try to use a driver . |
| 16 | In a similar vein , Stuart Holland noted that ‘ it takes time to win the intellectual appreciation by some trade unionists that these policies would be useful and to achieve that gut reaction by trade unionists that they are absolutely essential . |
| 17 | Labour injunctions are sought by employers or dissident trade unionists or others to prevent or to stop industrial action , including strikes , by trade unions or their officials which the plaintiff claims is illegal . |
| 18 | Among immature males this does not occur , but they are liable to be displaced by adult males if they attempt sexual interactions with high-ranking females . |
| 19 | We can be proud that we are regularly consulted on a variety of mattes by government bodies and we are the only environmental group in Brussels that specifically speaks for Wales . |
| 20 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
| 21 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 22 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 23 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 24 | Lighting was by pressure lamps and there was no cooker . |
| 25 | It 's strange that there are an awful lot of our team who have never played at Twickenham , because the traditional Harlequins fixture at the beginning of the season has now been taken over by League fixtures and they are now played at the Harlequins ground The Stoop . |
| 26 | Maturity brings new perspectives and the idea that they are often manipulated for their sporting prowess brings with it a clarity of perception , a perception succinctly summarized by Birchfield 's sprinter Lincoln Asquith : ‘ I was used by school teachers 'cause I was good at sport . |
| 27 | Ideally , we should build some flexibility into the Library 's financial management systems to cope with changes , but at present we are so tightly constrained by cost factors that we have no room for manoeuvre . |
| 28 | Nuts have been put out by bird lovers but it has resulted in several greenfinches being poisoned . |
| 29 | Article 5 allows more stringent control of tobacco advertising by Member States if they wish . |
| 30 | I was wearing a large theatrical ring with an enormous ‘ emerald ’ surrounded by paste diamonds and he bent more closely to look at it . |