Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC usually attempt to hide the fact that what they 're about to show is a repeat by introducing it with the words : ‘ Another chance to see … |
| 2 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 3 | Pioneered by National Children 's Home and co-funded in partnership with Cambridgeshire council , the scheme homes to deter children as young as five from crime by alerting them to the long-term consequences to their victims and the effect of crime on their own future . |
| 4 | Academician Druzhinin held that the object of the framers of the statutes was " to retain in the hands of the gentry estate the maximum quantity of land and to facilitate the gentry 's transition to more profitable farming based on free labour by providing them with the essential capital and reserves of the necessary manpower " . |
| 5 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 6 | T HOSE with a vested interest in rubbishing the Prince of Wales 's new Institute of Architecture by tarring it with the brush of eccentricity will have a field-day when they learn that the founder of the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes , Isaac Tigrett , is to sponsor a Russian student to attend the Institute for five years beginning this autumn . |
| 7 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 8 | Besides , I 'm paying for the betrayal by telling them about the body . |
| 9 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 10 | They have no gills , but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails . |
| 11 | It evades capture by lodging itself inside the very muscles of the pursuer . |
| 12 | In the course of the book Nash delineates popfiction by comparing it with the classics and tabloid journalism ( Chapter 1 ) , with naturally occurring conversation ( Chapters 2 and 3 ) , and finally with narrative techniques pertaining to film-making ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 14 | The theory is that if the players can not be persuaded to give the public value for money , they must be forced into a slow trot by hitting them in the most vulnerable area — their back pockets . |
| 15 | The crime for which Jean Campbell was charged was one of wilful murder of her own three-year old child by throwing it over the Old Bridge in Glasgow into the River Clyde where it drowned . |
| 16 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 17 | Characters , drawings , etc , that can be transferred to the artwork by rubbing them off the back of the transfer sheet . |
| 18 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 19 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 20 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 21 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 22 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 23 | It is not an easy thing to get rid of a body by dumping it in the sea , except from a boat , Of course it is less of a problem if you have access to a pier or a jetty , but most such places are public and liable to be overlooked , even at night . |
| 24 | It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast . |
| 25 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |
| 26 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |
| 27 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |
| 28 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 29 | But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea . |
| 30 | In the United States , Australia and other parts of the world , deposits are secondary and are mined with much less disturbance by digging them from the sites to which natural processes have moved them . |