Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should the barrels stay missing for a while , they are not likely to be posing much of a health hazard — at least , not nearly as much as that posed by the tonnes of poison whose storage , legal or otherwise , is now going to be looked into . |
| 2 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 3 | The tacksmen , he told Johnson , were emigrating , unable to comply with the exorbitant rents demanded by the lairds and deluded by the dreams of wealth they had promised their own tenants . |
| 4 | Sanctioned or authorized by law or right , lawful , proper ; ( c ) normal , regular ; conformable to a recognized standard type ; ( d ) sanctioned by the laws of reasoning ; logically admissible or inferable . |
| 5 | The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today . |
| 6 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |
| 7 | It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man , almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure . |
| 8 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 9 | And nothing in these accounts , whether familiar or otherwise , is compatible with the myths peddled by the merchants of nostalgia . |
| 10 | Following the example of George Müller [ q.v. ] , and his own highly original survival training in Hull , he lived by the principles of faith and prayer on which he later built his mission : never appealing for funds except to God , and administering all gifts with scrupulous stewardship . |
| 11 | ( avoiding the word " but " ) , the sufferer is presented with clear choices that have been discussed and agreed by the participants in advance . |