Example sentences of "by [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All claims by creditors are provable as debts against the bankrupt whether they are present or future , certain or contingent , ascertained or sounding only in damages ( r 12.3 ) . |
| 2 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 3 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 4 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 5 | The same sense of skill transfer dictated by recession is evident in the current exhibition at the RIAS Gallery . |
| 6 | On the other hand , it is worth noting that although the proportion of English-language material which had been obtained by purchase was small ( 4% , as opposed to 93% in the case of foreign-language material ) , because the number of items involved was substantially higher , in numerical terms these items — many of them probably North American publications — outnumbered non-English-language purchases by a factor of three to one . |
| 7 | What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation . |
| 8 | For , according to the prophets , ‘ he who by faith is righteous shall live ’ ; and the law does not rest on faith , for ‘ he who does them shall live by them ’ ( Gal. 3:12 ) . |
| 9 | Learning by heart was standard procedure in ancient and medieval education . |
| 10 | The damage done by McCarthy was immense . |
| 11 | Let unc unc Apart from the top row of unc which by inspection is identical with that of A , we have here 12 equations ad 12 unknowns . |
| 12 | Eagles by contrast are soaring birds which rise on hot-air thermals appearing to balance their ‘ barn-door ’ shapes on their ‘ finger-tips ’ — the long primaries on the end of their wings which smooth the air-flow at slow speeds . |
| 13 | Morocco had no oil and Hassan by contrast was dependent on support from the Saudi and , until rather recently , from the Shah himself . |
| 14 | His speaking voice by contrast was pleasing , his diction in French and Italian excellent . |
| 15 | Three of the six lymph nodes affected by sarcoid and four out of nine of the lung specimens affected by sarcoid were positive for both M tuberculosis complex specific DNA and the sequence from the 65 kilodalton gene . |
| 16 | Where the words used by Parliament are obscure or ambiguous , the Parliamentary material may throw considerable light not only on the mischief which the Act was designed to remedy but also on the purpose of the legislation and its anticipated effect . |
| 17 | Such an intention by Parliament is possible . |
| 18 | Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants ' clinics . |
| 19 | The concert by Prince was due to go ahead at Blenheim Palace last August . |
| 20 | Since considerable resources of time are needed to input a large corpus successfully , textual processing by computer is impracticable for many researchers working on tight budgets . |
| 21 | The image of intellectual and emotional self-control and stability projected by Nizan was fragile . |
| 22 | " What you mean by eviction is forcible removal ? " |
| 23 | Although the near-monopoly enjoyed by solicitors was indefensible because it related only to the preparation of documents , ‘ there is a real need for consumer protection and I am far from sure that the White Paper proposals meet this need , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The control exercised by ORDEN is terrifying and everyone has to be extremely careful . |
| 25 | The House is anxious to know whether the collection of tax by employers is relevant to where people work or to where they live . |
| 26 | Increasing union strength and a changing ( political ) power balance forced Swedish employers to deal with workers as a collectivity rather than , as Clegg suggests , the support given by employers being decisive for union recruitment . |
| 27 | It is this latter application which has importance for modern sociology , but some understanding of the concept of the unconscious as first developed by Freud is necessary before considering its application to social institutions and society generally . |
| 28 | At this point , an example not discussed by Freud is interesting . |
| 29 | Where standards followed by manufacturers are voluntary rather than mandatory such as British Standard , this is not within the defence anticipated here . |
| 30 | No attempt has been made to establish criteria for distinguishing those cases where applicants might reasonably be expected to represent themselves from those where representation either by specialist lay adviser or by lawyer is appropriate . |