Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 2 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 3 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 4 | He claimed that he was the victim of a " Stalinist " campaign to oust him by fellow NSF members who had used information on him obtained from Securitate files to publish smears in the NSF-controlled media . |
| 5 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 6 | On Aug. 11 McCarthy delivered to Pérez de Cuéllar the letter given him by Islamic Jihad . |