Example sentences of "by the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of public service was strong although from time to time a recognition of the public relations benefits was made by the solicitors we interviewed : |
| 2 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 3 | I am quite unreasonably disturbed by the document I 've just read , I realize . |
| 4 | At the same time , the rhetoric of ‘ partnership ’ has never been stronger : used by policy-makers it seeks to soften the blow of centralization ; used by the professionals it smacks of a desperate clinging to more liberal values . |
| 5 | Lydia was also faintly disgusted by tears , by the weakness they evinced and by the viscosity of their substance . |
| 6 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 7 | These are as follows : ( 1 ) Once a Court Scheme has been approved by the requisite majority of members and sanctioned by the court it is binding on all the members ( or the particular class of them ) and the company . |
| 8 | But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh . |
| 9 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 10 | If a laying cuckoo is seen by the hosts it is vigorously mobbed and chased and , more importantly from the cuckoo 's point of view , its egg is more likely to be ejected . |
| 11 | It 's been a privilege to have done this and I 'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I 've encountered . |
| 12 | At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often . |
| 13 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 14 | We have been impressed by the evidence we have received that this gave an inadequate account of the English language by treating it virtually as a branch of Latin , and constructing a rigid prescriptive code rather than a dynamic description of language in use . |
| 15 | … our assertion is that adequate preschool provision can improve the quality of life of young children and their families ; this conviction is given further support by the evidence we have presented in this book that pre-school education will in most circumstances aid the child 's development , increase his educational potential and in the long run his overall performance . |
| 16 | He is tickled by the idea they all have of him as a fool and a hypocrite and a mass-murderer . |
| 17 | If he imagined she would be disgusted by the idea he was wrong . |
| 18 | You can only get to Rudolfo 's by the road we took the other day when they found the car- or else on foot there 's a bit of a patch half a kilometre on from here — and in any case Rudolfo wo n't be down until tomorrow , being Palm Sunday . |
| 19 | If other properties in the landlord 's ownership are also served by the road it may be more convenient for him to retain it . |
| 20 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 21 | It was really good to see him in London last month ; I think he was a bit mystified by the church we went to , but it was good of him to come with me ! |
| 22 | The resistance to labouring class poets is balanced in some respects by the support they received . |
| 23 | For Clare Short and Jo Richardson , this is undoubtedly accentuated by the support they can give each other in a world where all the benchmarks are male , where rivalry is high and trust low . |
| 24 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 25 | Redmond was overwhelmed by the support he received from the British public during and since the Olympics and asked to send a message through the Daily Mirror . |
| 26 | He was concerned about de Gaulle 's anti-Americanism , but was pleased by the support he had received from the French leader in 1958–61 over the Berlin crises with Russia . |
| 27 | Count Tolstoy has been overwhelmed by the support he 's received . |
| 28 | Accompanied by the warden we walked up the steep path to the rocky top of the island , seeing a few wedge-tailed shearwaters nesting almost out in the open like their relative the fulmar . |
| 29 | She jerked back , surprised by the anger on his face , then reassured by the apology she saw there . |
| 30 | She lifted her head to look into his eyes , see his face , read his expression , but in the long shadows thrown by the torchlight it was impossible to read . |