Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Maxwell company was taken over by the management in a £32.5 million deal , agreed with the administrators , Arthur Andersen . |
| 2 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |
| 3 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 4 | Such has been the success of the piece on a short provincial tour , that it has been snapped up by The Globe in the centre of London 's theatreland . |
| 5 | When he was five years old he lost his guide when out riding ; frightened by the ‘ horrid imaginations ’ conjured up by the inscription in the turf , he saw a pool , a beacon , and a woman . |
| 6 | So he wrote to George Thurstan , an ex-marine who was running the Drake Fellowship ; this was a scheme set up by the Prince in the wake of the inner-city riots , to give young people from those areas adventure training . |
| 7 | These stamina exercises are supplemented by a programme of exercises set up by the instructor in the dojang . |
| 8 | When he came back Breeze was sitting curled up by the fire in the quaint but attractive parlour , her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the dancing flames . |
| 9 | The key factor for Freud is the prohibition on sexual desire , first set up by the father in the primal horde . |
| 10 | But sources have confirmed that this has been ruled out by the Treasury in the current round of public expenditure talks . |
| 11 | After the Romans were driven out by the Alemanni in the fifth century , the history of the area is misty until the ninth , when Zurich is mentioned as a town for the first time with the building of a palace there by Charlemagne . |
| 12 | The most important one , pointed out by the duo in an article in 1963 , concerned tax . |
| 13 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 14 | The government 's financial planning had been badly affected by an economic crisis brought about by the slump in the world price of coffee — which accounted for 90 per cent of Rwanda 's export earnings — following the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in July [ see pp. 36836 ] . |
| 15 | A further change in the nature of the labour market is being brought about by the decline in the strength of the trade unions . |
| 16 | At a deeper level the concentration of economic power brought about by the growth in the size of companies and the oligopolistic nature of product markets undermined some of the traditional justifications for private ownership itself . |
| 17 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 18 | Expansion was further spurred on by the reduction in the meat allowance in school canteens that the Ministry of Food was forced to introduce in 1941 , owing to problems of supply . |