Example sentences of "[vb pp] by a [noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
| 2 | Like a glass shattered by a soprano 's voice the span disintegrates into small fragments . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
| 4 | Watch the Iraqi strongman slump to the ground as he is felled by a sniper 's bullet . |
| 5 | The rubber had been cut wide open , as though slashed by a surgeon 's knife . |
| 6 | It began as an action upon the case ( apparently for negligence ) at Liverpool Assizes , and A secured a verdict , subject to the award of an arbitrator , who was afterwards empowered by a judge 's order to state a special case instead of making an award . |
| 7 | The Chartist , William Lovett , quotes with approval a description , written by a labourer 's son in 1840 , of the cottage of a ( symbolic ? ) |
| 8 | The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light . |
| 9 | Morsels of luscious chocolate that seem shaped by a jeweller 's hand are filled with sumptuous extravagances . |
| 10 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
| 11 | In 1970 , with the demise of the brigade system , The King 's Own Royal Border Regiment was given an entirely new badge : a white metal lion within a brass laurel wreath surmounted by a Queen 's Crown . |
| 12 | Indeed , some of the basic policies adopted by a company 's flight operations department may be related to the findings or recommendations of the flight safety section . |
| 13 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
| 14 | When using museum loan services , history teachers should also take advantage of any support offered by a museum 's education staff . |
| 15 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
| 16 | Teachers who have a severely handicapped pupil in an ordinary class can be greatly helped by a teacher 's aid , especially in first-school work and in those areas of the curriculum in the secondary school that involve practical processes such as science and geography . |
| 17 | I was bitten by a neighbour 's dog and heard from the police that the same dog had bitten two other ladies — a Mrs Gentles and a Mrs Savage ! |
| 18 | Treatment directed specially towards either stopping or reducing drinking on a long-term basis is very often thwarted by a patient 's denial of the extent of the problem or by lack of motivation to do anything about it . |
| 19 | Subject matter , then , could be dictated by a corporation 's willingness to fund a certain kind of exhibition . |
| 20 | They moved into the first , pitch black canyon , faintly lit by a Poacher 's Moon , their passage marked by the persistent bleeping of the detector . |
| 21 | It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch . |
| 22 | Demand for network management is driven by a customer 's need to control the escalating cost and complexity of networked systems , he says , while the market for disaster recovery is growing as a result of both legislation and successful promotion of the service by vendors . |
| 23 | The focus for method work was also provided by a student 's account of a lesson he or she had taught . |
| 24 | Payment by cheque will be accepted if accompanied by a banker 's card ( see Chapter 5 ) and if it is within the limit of the banker 's card ( usually £50 ) . |
| 25 | The Student 's Book is accompanied by a Teacher 's Book , Workbook and 2 cassettes . |
| 26 | Each level is accompanied by a Teacher 's Book which includes , for each chapter , a description of the teaching aims of the chapter , vocabulary which may need to be pre-taught , notes on the presentation , grammar and exercise sections , ideas for additional activities and answers to the exercises . |
| 27 | The summative profile is accompanied by a Teacher 's Statement , which is a written report of the student 's particular strengths and an outline of the kinds of topics covered on the course . |
| 28 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 29 | The 10th anniversary on May 4 of the death of Josip Broz Tito , the founder of communist Yugoslavia , was marked by a minute 's silence throughout the country , but also by a demonstration by around 2,000 Serbs in Belgrade calling for an end to the personality cult surrounding Tito and for his remains to be moved from Belgrade to his native Croatia . |
| 30 | " Trust him to land a good catch on his first day out , " he muttered to himself , and watched as the boat struck her sails and picked up her mooring , which was marked by a pig 's bladder float with a feather on it , a stone 's throw offshore in the stretch of water known as Polruan 's Pool . |