Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An amendment then added unless the ball has been played or touched by the other side . |
| 2 | At school , she had been considered something of a ‘ character ’ — a freak by her enemies , an eccentric by those loyal to her , or touched by the high voltage of her need . |
| 3 | The rest bobbed up and down at chin height , or remained by the bathing-machine steps . |
| 4 | The epidermis is penetrated at intervals by tiny pores known as stomata , which can be opened or closed by the surrounding guard cells , through which carbon dioxide enters ( and oxygen exits ) . |
| 5 | The most widely used system of nomenclature of chemical compounds is that recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) . |
| 6 | This same attitude is shown in existing interpreter assessment procedures ; for example , that used by the American Registry of interpreters for the Deaf , where sign language is split into articulatory features such as clear fingerspelling , lip movement and appropriate facial expression , for scoring . |
| 7 | In such cases the code used in the quotation need not be that used by the original speaker : its force derives from the fact that it is different from the code of the part of the turn in which it is embedded . |
| 8 | We also discussed the next great problem in international affairs , that posed by the Soviet Union , that victorious and self-confident power , with which our politicians , and above all Ernest Bevin , were already grappling . |
| 9 | The first section shows that the authority which states and governments claim can not be based on the main argument for the justification of authority , i.e. that described by the normal justification thesis . |
| 10 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 11 | That the rich orange hue of the nicotined finger matched that obtained by the French painter Saint-Martin , who used ground fragments from the heart of Louis XIV to achieve the effect . |
| 12 | I would welcome an intervention from the hon. Gentleman to explain whether Labour 's policy is that described in ’ Raising the Standard ’ or that stated by the hon. Member for Leeds , Central in his letter to the Society of Chief Inspectors and Advisers . |
| 13 | Hole mobility has therefore been totally restricted and the only movement below Tg is that allowed by the occupied volume vo . |
| 14 | On their heads were checked winter head scarves twisted into turbans that showed by the particular shape the area from which they came . |
| 15 | Of meetings which had begun in London in 1645 , the mathematician John Wallis could say : These remarks indicate the scope that existed by the mid-seventeenth century for differentiation between the sciences . |
| 16 | development which only just exceeds that permitted by the General Development Order , Class I ( development within the curtilage of a dwelling-house ) , Class VI ( agricultural ) and Class VIII ( industrial ) developments ; |
| 17 | Perhaps the most remarkable of all serpentine chemical defences is that employed by the spitting cobras of Africa . |
| 18 | To a great extent their analysis of the problematic nature of the established set — up tends to parallel that advanced by the constitutional authorities in that they are attentive to the political and economic problems of adversary party politics , elective dictatorship , and the overload of conflicting demands . |
| 19 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 20 | In narratives , such a view is often that presented by the main character in the story . |
| 21 | Another dramatic migration is that performed by the primordial germ cells ( Chapter 9 ) . |
| 22 | The most recent survey was that organised by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1955 , which recorded c. 100 pairs ; des Forges and Harber considered this to be an underestimate . |
| 23 | One course forward was that symbolised by the young activists — perjuangan , or mass action — and at the same time as BKR was being created badan perjuangan , ‘ struggle groups ’ , were formed . |
| 24 | You 'll see that reflected by the European press and the public as we introduce it on the continent next year . |
| 25 | At the same time a balaclava-masked soldier rolled in through the window where the stun grenade had come from , his Kalashnikov automatic aimed at the dummy that stood by the opposite window . |
| 26 | She lifted her feet , one by one , pressed them down on to the boot-scraper that stood by the back door . |
| 27 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 28 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 29 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 30 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |