Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 2 | They are intrigued by the process , interested in the machinery and most impressed by the skills of the people . |
| 3 | Nell wears those large white Peter Pan collars much favoured by the wives of men involved in sex scandals , when they get photographed on their way to church the Sunday after the story breaks . |
| 4 | During the years of their operations , however , they were frequently referred to as Lestai ( Brigands ) or as Sicarii ( Daggermen ) , the name deriving from the sica , a small curved dagger especially favoured by the Zealots for political assassinations . |
| 5 | Invading fans are not only repulsed by the occupants in defence of their home ‘ turf ’ , but also by the police in their pursuit of law and order and the status quo . |
| 6 | By the Middle Ages , Otmoor was already a restricted common , jealously guarded by the inhabitants of its ‘ seven towns ’ . |
| 7 | Clearly , he was highly regarded by the members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham , one of the most influential provincial scientific societies of Georgian England . |
| 8 | The princess was warmly applauded by the scientists for her speech . |
| 9 | For those out there wondering aloud ‘ where 's Syd ? ’ , a bonus ten-track CD entitled ‘ The Early Singles ’ has been thoughtfully included by the compilers of this Porsche of a box set . |
| 10 | By contrast , sociology 's more popular rivals are necessarily constrained by the requirements of their own , rather different , audience , the mass audience , whose interests are more practical , more ideological or more aesthetic . |
| 11 | A large timber barn in Essex , standing isolated near a road , will undoubtedly suffer if it is suddenly surrounded by the trimmings of a suburban garden — tarmac drive , garage , lawns , flowerbeds , hedges and off-the-peg fences . |
| 12 | Planks laid over the flattened rushes restrict your movements to a great extent , for any small , sudden movement is greatly exaggerated by the planks over the unstable , boggy ground . |
| 13 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 14 | Anyway , here arose Bob Mould and his Hüsker Dü cohorts who , feeling somewhat constrained by the borders of Hardcore Punk , kicked over the checkpoints and ran amok in the pleasant valleys of Perfect Pop , put its weedy , grinning aristocracy to the sword and stole all their clothes . |
| 15 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 16 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 17 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 18 | And the fact that wine-growing developed markedly on lands much visited by the dukes of Burgundy and Aquitaine is perhaps also suggestive of ducal initiative . |
| 19 | It is a dilemma inherent in the dramatic difference in intensity between outgoing sound and returning echo , a difference that is inexorably imposed by the laws of physics . |
| 20 | The North Station cars were greatly missed by the locals for whom they offered a quick journey to the Station and Town Centre , when they were withdrawn in 1963 . |
| 21 | The manhood of England has been largely alienated from the organised Churches because we have been so absorbed by the interests of the individual soul as to neglect the woes of society , and so preoccupied with the delights of heaven as to overlook some of the most urgent duties of earth . |
| 22 | Indeed , if he were to accede to our request , we would probably become so alarmed by the manifestations of his power that you would n't see most of us for dust ! |
| 23 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
| 24 | We had a lot of walking to do , bicycles were only used by the policemen on the outskirts of the borough . |
| 25 | Although I am not entirely convinced by the contents of the motion , I agree with parts of it . |
| 26 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |
| 27 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
| 28 | ( 6 ) A local education authority shall , if so requested by the governors of an aided or special agreement school maintained by the authority , make arrangements with the governors in respect of the admission of pupils to the school for preserving the character of the school ; and the terms of any such arrangements shall , in default of agreement between the authority and the governors , be determined by the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | ( 5 ) The duty imposed by subsection ( 2 ) above in relation to a preference expressed in accordance with arrangements made under subsection ( 1 ) above shall apply also in relation to — ( a ) any application for the admission to a school maintained by a local education authority of a child who is not in the area of the authority ; and … [ ( 6 ) A local education authority shall , if so requested by the governors of an aided or special agreement school maintained by the authority , make arrangements with the governors in respect of the admission of pupils to the school for preserving the character of the school ; and the terms of any such arrangement shall , in default of agreements between the authority and the governors , be determined by the Secretary of State . ] |
| 30 | In 1984 , the first of eight massive plumes were detected by the NOAA over Novaya Zemlya , the Arctic island long used by the Russians for nuclear weapons tests . |