Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 2 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 3 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 4 | While Mexico 's political weakness was excused and its economy helped out by the US , Brazil 's relationship with Washington steadily deteriorated and its policies came under American attack . |
| 5 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 6 | Wide-eyed , Robbie backed away , but found her retreat cut off by the worktop . |
| 7 | Its memory lives on by the lane in which it existed — Well Lane . |
| 8 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 9 | Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass . |
| 10 | Similarly , databases offered by the current crop of object firms like Versant , Objectivity and Servio Logic , could easily have their market chewed up by the mainstream relational players like Sybase , Ingres and Oracle , which nearly every day are claiming more and more functionality for their products , like inheritance , C++ and objects . |
| 11 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 12 | After the society refused his application he also failed in attempts to have his case taken up by the Building Societies Association and the insurance ombudsman . |
| 13 | Top West End antiques dealer Arthur Davidson — son-in-law of the late showbiz millionaire Leslie Grade — had his business closed down by the receivers . |
| 14 | His Dad pulled up by the fence and wound his window down . |
| 15 | As he wrote , the new shift operator tracked the Citation towards the parking-ramp , his face lit up by the screen in front of him . |
| 16 | Can we , in the West , begin to imagine how it must be to have your farm taken over by the state . |