Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 2 | But you know , for every one of us as Christians , Jesus Christ lives in us by the Holy Spirit , by his spirit . |
| 3 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 4 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 5 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 6 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 7 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 9 | Part II requested the Secretary-General to report to the next ( 46th ) session on the recommendations addressed to him by the Intergovernmental Expert Group to Study the Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Traffic in Drugs convened under Resolution 44/142 of Dec. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 37434 ] . |
| 10 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 11 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 12 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 13 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 14 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 15 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 16 | He was compensated with a pension secured for him by the new lord treasurer , Sir Thomas Osborne ( later Earl of Danby , q.v . ) . |
| 17 | On Dec. 31 , 1989 , Aquino announced sweeping Cabinet changes in an attempt to deal with some of the charges made against her by the rebel soldiers , with nine new appointees taking over key government posts [ see p. 37121 ] . |
| 18 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 19 | He was constantly harassed by Philip III of France and his officers as a result of a fine of 15,000 l.t. imposed upon him by the French king 's court in 1273 . |
| 20 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 21 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 22 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 23 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 24 | Are you telling me it was presented to you by the Royal Artillery Club ? |
| 25 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 26 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 27 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 28 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 29 | Among other initiatives taken at the summit was a decision by Saudi Arabia to forgive the debt owed to it by the poorest Islamic countries and to contribute US$10,000,000 to ease the ICO 's budget deficit of US$49,000,000 . |
| 30 | Didyma was a coastal port near to the important city of Miletos ( page 143 ) , connected to it by the sacred road . |