Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem may be solved just by a solicitor 's letter , though in many cases court action is needed . |
| 2 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 3 | Yes , that was how he would draw them : soldered together by a mother 's love . |
| 4 | Anderston was a warren of narrow gas-lit streets , of tenements linked together by a spider 's web of overhead tram wires , swaying in the wind above the cobbles . |
| 5 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 6 | Environmental pollution through smoke , de-afforestation , the development of conurbations ( large built-up areas ) or the use of nuclear power and the disposal of its waste products must be weighed up by a country 's government ( and the world community ) against potential income growth . |
| 7 | The horseman was , in fact , one of Miles ' Cheyenne scouts , and Looking Glass was cut down by a sharpshooter 's bullet ; the only warrior to die after the opening battle . |
| 8 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 9 | Should the head be removed accidentally by a farmer 's hedge cutter , or purposely by a political hooligan , the stout stalk can be recycled . |
| 10 | The condition requires the deposit to be paid only by a banker 's draft or solicitors ' cheque . |
| 11 | Surely she could not be stupid enough to be falling in love , be bowled over by a man 's charm again , and so strongly this time ? |
| 12 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |