Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arlott 's son Tim read two poems written by his father , and the congregation sang God Whose Farm is All Creation , a hymn written by the former broadcaster . |
| 2 | My reason for calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is not its resemblance in some respect to other sensations called by the same name , but its mere resemblance to them . |
| 3 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 4 | The implication of this passage is that the words ‘ sensation of white ’ denote the sensation , but connote its resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 5 | Both our patients presented with symptoms and signs of heavy metal intoxication within six weeks of exposure to remedies administered by the same hakim . |
| 6 | All these variations combine to the extent that even words spoken by the same person are never identical [ Vassiere , 1985 ] . |
| 7 | Even words spoken by the same person are never identical ( Vaissiere , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The main characteristic of rejuvenation terraces and breaks of slope in the valley side caused by the same process is that the terraces are essentially paired , so that they occur at the same elevation on both sides of the valley . |
| 9 | The Constituent Assembly 's decision was based on recommendations emanating from a political pact signed by Gaviria with leaders of his Ruling Liberal Party ( PL ) and the two parties jointly outnumbering the PL in the Assembly , namely the M-19 Democratic Alliance ( a left-wing coalition led by the former guerrilla group 19 April Movement ( M-19 ) ) and the conservative Movement of National Salvation ( MSN ) . |
| 10 | The M-19 Democratic Alliance , a left-wing coalition led by the former guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , had also opposed the law . |
| 11 | Brackenbury will fill the gap left by the former advertising and sales promotion manager Roger Craythorne , who took early retirement last month ( MW November 15 ) as part of a sweeping programme of marketing changes . |
| 12 | These results are similar to those reported in maintenance trials of H 2 receptor antagonists analysed by the same method . |
| 13 | This will be included in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement as an obligation which the transferor must procure. ( 2 ) Exemption from the pre-emption provisions to allow : transfers within corporate groups : transfers to immediate relatives and family trusts ; transfers by an investor which is a managed fund to other funds managed by the same investor ; " warehousing " ( subject to the control of the investor ) . |
| 14 | Inter-rater reliability ranges from 86 per cent to 92 per cent and intra-rater reliability ( agreement for the analysis of errors from a single test made by the same tester on different occasions ) is 91 per cent . |
| 15 | The Vatican in December 1989 ordered the closure in Recife on the east coast of two progressive seminaries founded by the former Archbishop of Olinda and Recife , the Most Rev. Helder Câmara . |
| 16 | The defeat comes just eight days after England lost by the same score to Norway in a vital World Cup qualifying match in Oslo . |
| 17 | Its appeal to the visitor lies in its indefinable atmosphere of a home cherished by the same family for over four centuries . |
| 18 | The new Archbishop Rivera y Damas remains outspoken on human rights violations and continues much of the legal work sponsored by the former Archbishop . |
| 19 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
| 20 | The effect of this would be that the additional premium of £5,000 would be treated as additional rent for the period 28 April 1989 to 25 March 1991 and would , in effect , make the transaction tax neutral within companies controlled by the same individual . |
| 21 | The only way , in those circumstances , that relief might be obtained is to press the inspector of taxes to assess the vendor company under Sch A. But would that be self-defeating within two companies controlled by the same individual ? |
| 22 | The amount of solid hazardous waste produced by the same operation fell by 79 per cent . |
| 23 | Industries will be banned from using high-sulphur content fuels , the use of government cars in winter will be cut by 30 per cent , and production at the city 's two electricity plants reduced by the same amount . |
| 24 | The electoral campaign , which had begun on Dec. 4 , ended on Feb. 21 , and was attended by an estimated 2,500 international observers including representatives of the United Nations , the Organization of American States and the European Parliament and a United States team led by the former President , Jimmy Carter . |
| 25 | Indeed , according to Hamnett and Williams ( 1980 ) , gentrification or ‘ Chelseafication ’ was already proceeding rapidly in London during the 1970s — to the extent that the proportion of professional , managerial and intermediate non-manual workers in Inner London 's population increased by the same amount as for Greater London as a whole ( Hamnett , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | The opposition had asked for the nullification of an amnesty decree passed by the former government on those who had committed offences during the May protests , including Suchinda . |
| 27 | If all incomes rise by the same percentage amount , then those at the lower end of the income scale will , of course , receive a lower extra sum of money compared to those at the higher end of the income scale . |
| 28 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 29 | Family background Occupations of parents and brothers and sisters , any relatives employed in the same trade/profession , any relatives employed by the same company . |
| 30 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |