Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to a [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 2 | MERCHANT bank Henry Ansbacher agreed yesterday to a take-over by the South African bank First National . |
| 3 | Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door . |
| 4 | Following this resolution the delegates settled down to a paper by Professor Charles Kerney from Indiana ( Vice-president of the American Association of the Deaf ) which was read by A M Sleight ( the President 's son and headmaster of the Brighton Institute in succession to his grandfather ) and interpreted to the deaf by J W Dawson . |
| 5 | IMF officials reacted calmly to a statement by Russian President Boris Yeltsin on April 28 that Russia would not let the IMF dictate to it . |
| 6 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 7 | Whittingham , with 22 goals this season , latched on to a mistake by defender Salvatore Fusco in the 39th minute , drew the keeper off his line and calmly finished from the edge of the area . |