Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to proceed was taken by the Slovak authorities immediately after the breakdown of EC-sponsored talks ( earlier bilateral talks having ended without agreement on Oct. 13 ) . |
| 2 | He thought you would have to keep well over to one side of the car roof to avoid being struck by the side of the tunnel arch as the train came into Gloucester Road . |
| 3 | ‘ ( c ) Proceedings . ( i ) The case was tried before Judge Aglionby and jury between 3 and 4 July 1990. ( ii ) At the close of the prosecution case a submission of no case to answer was made by the respondent in respect of both counts . |
| 4 | At the close of the prosecution case before the trial judge , a submission of no case to answer was made by the respondent in respect of both counts . |
| 5 | A free afternoon to explore is followed by a welcome party . |
| 6 | ( In the wild , a pair 's capacity to reproduce is limited by the availability of food , and one or two clutches a year is normal . ) |
| 7 | Only thirty yards or so separated them , when Curtis saw the Prophet lift a hand from the steering wheel and knock the rear-view mirror out of alignment to avoid being blinded by the glare . |
| 8 | Eventually , a statutory right to disclaim was created by the Peerage Act 1963 and Tony Benn , as he later became , was enabled to pursue his political career . |
| 9 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 10 | That Nafferton is a pleasant place to live is shown by the rapid sale of new houses , both to local people and those from further afield . |
| 11 | She did not deserve in that tiny viewing room to have been stabbed by a pair of scissors through the heart . |
| 12 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 13 | More specifically , the years from 1920 to 1924 were especially productive , Nizan 's inbred appetite to succeed being increased by the competitive presence of Sartre , back from a three-year stint in a provincial lycee in La Rochelle . |
| 14 | " The way in which learning to read is experienced by the child will determine how he will view learning in general , how he will conceive of himself as a person . " |
| 15 | The quest to conquer was led by the leader of the clan , Paul , a modern conquistador of the Book of Life embodied in the writings of the Talmud which he meticulously followed . |
| 16 | The timescale , , for the instability of the boundary layer to occur is given by the time taken for conduction to thicken the local boundary layer to this mean thickness The two different regimes can be separated by equating the settling time , /v S to the convective boundary-layer timescale , . |
| 17 | This inherent resistance to change is exacerbated by the low priority accorded by our law schools to the teaching of comparative law and , in England , by an unwillingness to grapple with foreign languages , itself both a cause and a consequence of English becoming the new lingua franca . |
| 18 | Frankie dashed into the main kitchen and passed the window in a stoop to avoid being seen by the men outside . |
| 19 | PageMaker is still , incredibly , the only desktop publishing program to have been developed by a team experienced in graphics arts , printing and publishing — all the rest were written by programmers seeking to emulate such an environment . |
| 20 | The precarious nature of the human effort to balance is steadied by the strength of the love of God which itself leapt down into time to show it could be done . |
| 21 | The Lord Chief Justice may on occasion put forward the views of the higher judiciary on the more important issues relating to the criminal law or sentencing in the course of a bill 's progress , although his ability to attend is limited by the demands of his court . |
| 22 | It does this by disguising itself as an aphid , in order to avoid being detected by the ants . |
| 23 | It will act as a case study in how imports are facilitated by changing distribution patterns in the UK and how UK manufacturers ' ability to react is hampered by an inadequate information base . |
| 24 | Its ability to respond was limited by the IBA 's programme requirements . |
| 25 | The tendency for oxidation or reduction to occur is indicated by the redox potential ( Eh ) of the environment . |
| 26 | Sensitivity to dexamethasone was suggested by the fact that the adverse reaction stopped on withdrawal of the drug , although an intradermal test to dexamethasone sodium phosphate gave a negative result . |
| 27 | Larger animals with the speed and power to escape are grappled by the hindquarters until the leopard can seize the throat . |
| 28 | But as she kept to the inside edge of the footpath to avoid being splashed by the congestion of horse-drawn vehicles her gaze turned to the heart of the city , and all at once her spirits lifted . |
| 29 | The potential for the epidemic to spread is underlined by a survey among black schoolchildren in Cape Town which revealed that 70 per cent of 16-year-olds were sexually active , and 20 per cent had several partners in the past year . |
| 30 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |