Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotion of bitterness is conveyed by his metaphor for the granting of his peril , like ‘ Wealthy men who care not how they give ’ . |
| 2 | The success of the document reuse was measured by its support for the production of a new book entitled Hypertext . |
| 3 | HER husband , Tom , has slept by her bedside for the last three months . |
| 4 | Perhaps the attraction was due to the German blood which flowed in the veins of some of my ancestors ; it was no doubt helped by my veneration for the genius of men like Wagner and Goethe . |
| 5 | ‘ During wind and rain ’ , in which memories of the past are set against present reality through contrasting images and metres , is one of the greatest of them ; but ‘ The oxen ’ , inspired by his nostalgia for the traditions of Christianity , is perhaps the most popular . |
| 6 | The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer . |
| 7 | His appointment in 1955 as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London , for example , was marked by his affection for the zoo , but also by ructions as he fought the old guard for his sensible proposals for change . |
| 8 | But C.C. 's abnormal difficulty in judging vertical symmetry is caused by his neglect for the left of figures , which should not disrupt judgements of symmetry about the horizontal axis . |
| 9 | b ) Brave , passionate , deeply misunderstood woman crucified by her love for the heartless , impossible , provincial Flaubert . |
| 10 | Students did not want to suffer such humiliation even though the new policies were implemented by their government for the betterment of the nation . |