Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any fears , however , that Havel 's talent might be going off were for me resolved by the broadcast version of Redevelopment , given a dramatised reading by the RSC in February under the title Slum Clearance . |
| 2 | While the three of them stood by the pump in the stableyard , waiting for their horses to be brought out , George nodded his head towards Gareth Davis , who was across the other side of the yard , well out of earshot . |
| 3 | The two of them flashed by the post . |
| 4 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |
| 5 | In the south , in Baluchistan , opium convoys are protected by rockets , guns and missiles — most of them supplied by the West to fight the holy jihad in Afghanistan . |
| 6 | Results in the 71 seats in electoral districts , where the winning candidate was required to secure over 50 per cent of the votes , were decisive for only 13 seats ( 10 of them won by the DLP ) . |
| 7 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 8 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 9 | He thinks this demonstrates the vitality of Islam and of the unwillingness of the thinking Muslim to accept the harsh , intolerant version of it offered by the fundamentalists . |
| 10 | In general terms , special damage is damage over and above that suffered by the public at large or some significant section of it affected by the decision . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a long memory , all of it coloured by the past , ’ Jenna said bitterly , and he let her go , his expression disgusted . |
| 12 | They were preceded by weeks of speculation ( some of it inspired by the Elysée ) and followed by weeks of commentary and exegesis , all of which had the effect of focussing journalistic and public attention on the presidency . |
| 13 | Central and local government activities outside the strict limits of the Poor Law expanded , much of it guided by the principles which ruled poor relief . |
| 14 | it must not be possible to modify archived material ; system users may not have access to archive material but may read copies of it provided by the system manager |
| 15 | To coincide with the study 's publication , the council renewed its call for the Data Protection Act to be amended to enable individuals to see any file on them kept by the league . |
| 16 | And , further wishing to appear brisk and fresh , as if she had simply alighted at the manor gates from her carriage , she allowed herself plenty of time for the familiar trudge down the cobbled hill of St Jude 's Street to the flat plain of St Jude 's Square and Market Square in the valley below and then up the other side , past the brewery and the iron foundry , through the maze of brewers ' and iron-workers ' cottages , to the manor , the skyline beyond it dominated by the squat , square bulk and the huge , foully belching chimney-stack of Dallam 's mill . |