Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want my child taught by that teacher ! |
| 2 | The bill is the first of its kind introduced by any government , and reflects the recommendations of the convention on biodiversity signed at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 3 | In early 1981 under the cloak of exercises , Polish military units in strategic locations were redeployed and their barracks occupied by internal security troops . |
| 4 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 5 | These were creatures above fashion or so they liked to think — their look characterized by exquisite dullness and a certain cock-eyed practicality , epitomized by the much favoured Barbour jacket . |
| 6 | One reason for this , they argue , is that it is a ‘ responsibility ’ for the Government to see its majority reduced by one vote with the appointment of the Speaker . |
| 7 | Despite the varied subject matter of EUP 's books , they shared a distinctive appearance , their covers designed by ex-bomber pilot George Mackie , head of design at Gray 's School of Art in Aberdeen . |
| 8 | To end this book a chapter will , therefore , be devoted to the history of a fictitious place called Combsburgh , with the objects of demonstrating ways in which data obtained by careful research may subsequently be incorporated into a narrative . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's all we need ! ’ said Iris , her nerve restored by this display of masculine weakness . |
| 10 | In the following year she is reincarnated , but into wood , not flesh and blood : she becomes furniture , a cross between a throne and a commode , her mask-like head and rigid hand fixed to the chair back , her wig suggested by curly iron coat hooks and carved wooden scrolls and flourishes . |
| 11 | It must surely be significant that in an age when the evidence for women as writers is so sparse , two out of the five writers here discussed are women and that both present their spirituality nourished by physical debility , coloured by gender-specific terms , and very evidently rooted in the affective piety stimulated by the visual iconography of the Incarnation ; although both found these to be factors which precipitated their experience of transcendent being and for Julian , in particular , they triggered her sense of that which is ineffable . |
| 12 | Briefly she closed her eyes , mentally peeling off the scratchy black stockings , lowering her feet inch by beautiful inch into a bowl of cool water . |
| 13 | Made the more appealing , perhaps , by alcohol and half-light , she was nonetheless beautiful , her elfin face crossed by a touching sadness , her brow furrowed by some longing she could not define . |
| 14 | It was there that they went each summer , in Shiva 's holidays , their fares paid by Sabine Schnitzler who , having reverted to her maiden name and largely to her native tongue , sometimes wore a surprised , even bewildered , look at being surrounded , as she put it , by ‘ all those Indians ’ . |
| 15 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 16 | ‘ For a start , unlike the first one , she 's not likely to get her head turned by some man . ’ |
| 17 | They hover together in their crowded safety , their tables littered by empty pint glasses rimmed and dripping with the foamy froth of leftover lager , and ashtrays overflowing like untidy clumps of ashen moss . |
| 18 | These models are based on an assumption that in solving complex problems about , for example , marriage , people use fairly simple set of principles , which may or may not be consistent , and which interact in any given situation ; their priority fixed by this situation . |
| 19 | The Li parents ' bedroom is outclassed by that of their eldest son : he has a new sofa , cuddly toys and silk flowers , their newness preserved by protective plastic wrappers . |
| 20 | The Cid was then before Albarrazin , doing all the evil that he could , and he brake up his camp and came with his host to Juballa ; and Abeniaf and the Alcaydes of Xativa and Carchayra came unto him , and they renewed their covenant to stand by each other , and be of one voice . |
| 21 | The Kinshasa demonstration followed calls from the opposition alliance , the Sacred Union , for popular protest in support of the national conference as it rejected proposals for its replacement outlined by Prime Minister Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond . |
| 22 | The front page was taken up with the Leader 's activities : a photograph showed him pumping along a line of soldiers , his elbows thrust back , his chest puffed out , its outline blurred by hoary growth ; Doric-square , his famous chin jutted up and outwards , as he took a salute of volunteers for Africa at a little trot . |
| 23 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 24 | Potentially cancerous cells are identified by the vulnerability of their DNA to attack by dilute acid . |
| 25 | UP TO 150 local government jobs could go if two North-East councils have their spending capped by new Environment Secretary Michael Howard . |
| 26 | The Fono is elected for up to three years , with two of its members elected by universal suffrage and the remainder chosen by Matai ( elected clan leaders ) . |
| 27 | The new party was expected to be the main opposition grouping in the colony 's reformed legislature , which was to have almost a third of its members chosen by general election [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 28 | When the conduct of public life is structured by professional security advisers , its form determined by anti- terrorism measures , then ‘ normal ’ democratic rules are not in command . |
| 29 | Similarly , a child who has language problems because of hearing loss caused by a temporary blockage ( otitis media ) may have her hearing corrected by surgical intervention , but this will not automatically remedy the child 's problems with language ; this will require additional treatment to create the possibility of appropriate learning ( Downs and Blager 1982 ; Quick and Mandell 1983 ; Godowski et al . |
| 30 | A sweet chestnut lay close by , its glossiness marred by decisive incisor scratch marks . |