Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb pp] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I wanted when I was so worried about what was happening with my own daughter was to spend my sentence surrounded by pregnant women . |
| 2 | I poured my heart , soul and a couple of vats from Nettles brewery into making it a cohesive , disciplined goal-scoring machine , only to see my dream sabotaged by soccer-illiterate shopkeepers and eleven Lego-legged , sloth-brained idiots in vaguely matching shorts . |
| 3 | I do n't want my child taught by that teacher ! |
| 4 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |
| 5 | I would see my house occupied by other people . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | Most plants are affected by one or more species , their presence betrayed by ragged leaves , buds or shoots , accumulations of dark green grass ( excreta ) , and sometimes silky webs or rolled leaves . |
| 8 | Pook 's stables were invisible from here but were making their presence known by other means . |
| 9 | The body of the ship rose high above the quay , its stem crowned by small castles or crenellated fighting-platforms to protect archers and soldiers during battle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The cuts will also mean redundancies at a theatre which has seen its grant reduced by forty percent . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's all we need ! ’ said Iris , her nerve restored by this display of masculine weakness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A late fifteenth century example is Pierrefonds , near Compiègne ; a truly massive pile , fortified , its skyline broken by numerous towers and high pitched roofs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ For a start , unlike the first one , she 's not likely to get her head turned by some man . ’ |
| 20 | Stephen parked in front of the old white-painted building , its starkness relieved by bright-green shutters . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 burden of our civilization is not merely , as many suppose , that the product of industry is ill-distributed , or its conduct tyrannical , or its operation interrupted by embittered disagreements . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Glasgow ambulance staff yesterday voted to observe TUC guidelines after management had warned that those on patient transfer would have their pay docked by three quarters unless they worked normally , and accident and emergency staff would lose half their pay unless they worked within the guidelines . |
| 30 | Within private manufacturing industry as Brown ( 1981 ) has shown , multi-employer negotiations are no longer the major means of pay determination since two-thirds of manual workers now have their pay settled by single-employer bargaining — although , for the economy as a whole , 46 per cent of firms in the private sector reported multi-employer bargaining as being the most important for pay increases , as against 75 per cent for the public sector ( Daniel and Millward , 1983 ) . |