Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
2 | Like a glass shattered by a soprano 's voice the span disintegrates into small fragments . |
3 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
4 | Watch the Iraqi strongman slump to the ground as he is felled by a sniper 's bullet . |
5 | Racy and instructive as this was , my eye was caught by a Gordon 's Gin ad on the opposite page . |
6 | The rubber had been cut wide open , as though slashed by a surgeon 's knife . |
7 | It began as an action upon the case ( apparently for negligence ) at Liverpool Assizes , and A secured a verdict , subject to the award of an arbitrator , who was afterwards empowered by a judge 's order to state a special case instead of making an award . |
8 | The Chartist , William Lovett , quotes with approval a description , written by a labourer 's son in 1840 , of the cottage of a ( symbolic ? ) |
9 | The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light . |
10 | Morsels of luscious chocolate that seem shaped by a jeweller 's hand are filled with sumptuous extravagances . |
11 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
12 | Profits made by a parents ' association are liable to taxation , registration with the Charity Commissioners enables the association to escape tax liability . |
13 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
14 | In the family proceedings court an appointment may be made by a justices ' clerk . |
15 | In 1970 , with the demise of the brigade system , The King 's Own Royal Border Regiment was given an entirely new badge : a white metal lion within a brass laurel wreath surmounted by a Queen 's Crown . |
16 | Indeed , some of the basic policies adopted by a company 's flight operations department may be related to the findings or recommendations of the flight safety section . |
17 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
18 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
19 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
20 | When using museum loan services , history teachers should also take advantage of any support offered by a museum 's education staff . |
21 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
22 | However , as STEPHEN THORPE reports , this historic match was marred by a spectators ' boycott which kept the overall crowd down to 6500 |
23 | Teachers who have a severely handicapped pupil in an ordinary class can be greatly helped by a teacher 's aid , especially in first-school work and in those areas of the curriculum in the secondary school that involve practical processes such as science and geography . |
24 | I was bitten by a neighbour 's dog and heard from the police that the same dog had bitten two other ladies — a Mrs Gentles and a Mrs Savage ! |
25 | A strange thing hangs by a man 's thigh , under its master 's clothes . |
26 | Treatment directed specially towards either stopping or reducing drinking on a long-term basis is very often thwarted by a patient 's denial of the extent of the problem or by lack of motivation to do anything about it . |
27 | Subject matter , then , could be dictated by a corporation 's willingness to fund a certain kind of exhibition . |
28 | This designation was not without its local hostility ; the validity of the designation order was challenged by a residents ' protection society and the High Court held in favour of the objectors . |
29 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
30 | They moved into the first , pitch black canyon , faintly lit by a Poacher 's Moon , their passage marked by the persistent bleeping of the detector . |