Example sentences of "by a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 2 | There are good satirical illustrations by the author , paralleled by a text which makes fun of American criticism , Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art . |
| 3 | In these cases , the absolute privilege attaches only to the maker of the statement : when it is reported or broadcast , the organisation which does so is protected by a privilege which is qualified and not absolute . |
| 4 | You will then be visited about every five days by a nurse who collects the milk and leaves you with a fresh supply of bottles . |
| 5 | After being allowed home , he was paid a daily visit by a nurse who , in an act of selfless devotion worthy of Florence Nightingale herself , changed his bandages . |
| 6 | ANOTHER had his head submerged in a kitchen sink by a nurse who was ‘ testing his breaking point . ’ |
| 7 | On the following day , Elinor 's door was thrown open by a nurse who then stood to attention as , smiling benignly , Matron Ivy Braddock appeared in the doorway . |
| 8 | The last moments of Johnathan Ball , the three-year-old victim of the bombing , were described yesterday by a nurse who cradled him in her arms as he died . |
| 9 | The presence of complications was defined by the endoscopic demonstration of ulceration within the columnar lined segment ( one ) , oesophageal adenocarcinoma ( one ) , or oesophageal stricture ( eight ) , the latter defined by a narrowing which prevented the smooth passage of a standard ( 11 mm ) endoscope . |
| 10 | The alarm was raised 20 minutes later by a passer-by who spotted the rope . |
| 11 | A CHRISTMAS Day burglary was foiled by a passer-by who called the police and then followed the suspects into an alleyway , a court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | The alarm was raised by a passer-by who heard one of the youngsters , clinging to rocks , shouting for help . |
| 13 | Daily operation was usually carried out by a miller who , like a number of other employees , was actually paid a salary and granted a number of other privileges . |
| 14 | The book is accompanied by a cassette which provides lively listening tasks . |
| 15 | Police , alerted by a motorist who dashed to a phone box , organised a replacement ambulance . |
| 16 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |
| 17 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 18 | It is not a good idea simply to rely on advertisements in the local paper but far better to go to someone who has been recommended to you by a friend who has been successfully treated . |
| 19 | For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher . |
| 20 | I am told by a friend who was a delegate to the Delhi conference that the concern over Britain 's importing nuclear weapons into an area hitherto free of them was real and not fictitious . |
| 21 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 22 | I was told of the story by a friend who knew the old platelayer who we shall call Fred . |
| 23 | ‘ I was approached by a friend who knows Mr Gilbey but I have never met him , ’ said Mrs Ralli from the doorstep of her £500,000 mansion in Hardingham , Norfolk . |
| 24 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 25 | Tell her they were sent by a friend who heard she was ill . |
| 26 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 27 | Erm interestingly enough there 's a report that Kinsey as a young man at college erm was approached by a friend who had this this terrible personal problem and er confessed to Kinsey that he kept feeling tempted to masturbate and he was very disturbed by this er so Kinsey and he prayed together that they would er together have the strength to give up masturbation . |
| 28 | What joins the various devices under a common heading is the fact that in all cases the discourses invoked are spoken through by a voice which has little or no inherent identity of its own but is defined as a principle of interrogative conjunction . |
| 29 | He was speared to death six years later by a Masai whose favourite bullock he insisted on requisitioning for a government destocking programme . |
| 30 | It must not be forgotten that all the above Acts were passed by a parliament which was elected in ‘ The peoples Republic ’ with an overwhelming Communist party majority . |