Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book . |
| 2 | Railways somehow symbolized the fact that Americans never did anything by halves , and this was more than borne out by the architecture of American railway stations . |
| 3 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 4 | A collegial model looked both more scriptural and more ecumenical — as well as being more suited to a post-monarchical world — even if bolstered up by a not-too-sound and rather fundamentalist interpretation of a selection of New Testament and patristic texts . |
| 5 | Organisations did n't work until backed up by the govt . |
| 6 | Newton replaced Galileo 's law of circular inertia with his own law of linear inertia , according to which bodies continue to move in straight lines at uniform speed unless acted on by a force . |
| 7 | This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover . |
| 8 | First , it is necessary to take account of changes in the scale of societies , whether brought about by a growth of population or by political and military means , as in the creation of nation states out of numerous smaller units in Western Europe between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see Chapter 5 ) or in the process of imperialist conquest and expansion . |
| 9 | As pointed out by the report of the Law Commissions , this requirement causes problems whenever property either does not pass at all , or passes independently of the transfer of the bill of lading , or where the transfer of the bill is not causative of the passing of property . |
| 10 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 11 | Thus , cases such as Expro Services Ltd v Smith [ 1991 ] IRLR 156 , involving the contracting out by the Ministry of Defence of its catering function , should not fail in the future on the grounds that the catering operation , as carried on by the Ministry , was not in the nature of a commercial venture . |
| 12 | The Inquisitor 's voice , as picked up by the spy-fly , almost drowned the crackle of gunfire . |
| 13 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 14 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 15 | They do n't have a set style : sometimes a touch funky when plunked along by the bass ; sometimes rather laid back and mellow when the languid guitar takes over . |
| 16 | So often companies pay lip service to equal opportunities , and , by and large , male and female employers will own up to finding their female employees more impressive , as born out by the report . |
| 17 | It is undeniable that consumers have the capacity to resist the blandishments of advertisers , as borne out by the failure of many products brought on to the market . |
| 18 | Usually LIFESPAN can be called up by typing one word , as set up by the LIFESPAN Manager , and details are given by the Help facility . |
| 19 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 20 | Mr Smith , erm , obviously you want to respond to that , but at the same time could I just press you towards your view and it 's really relevant to the districts surrounding York , that we know you can live with the figures of provision as set out by the County Council in the alteration , how ar are you aware of the figures which are being proposed by other participants in the discussion for Greater York ? |
| 21 | Hood : a generous hood which unfortunately bunched up when pulled in by the drawcord . |
| 22 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 23 | The notion of heterodoxy versus orthodoxy as a ‘ motor ’ for modernization is integral to a theoretical genealogy which sees change as brought about by the tension of ‘ ought ’ versus ‘ is ’ , whether in Hegel 's tension between the universal and the particular , jurisprudence 's counterposition of positive law and natural law , or Adorno 's well known ‘ utopian moment ’ . |
| 24 | Sequential notes follow the pattern as laid down by the lecturer or speaker , or record the pattern of thought of the author whose book you are making notes from . |
| 25 | Westminster City Council 's was appointed to set up training sessions with Chinatown restaurant owners as they prepared to meet requirements as laid down by the Food Safety Act . |
| 26 | He was confident that search consultants stuck to their rules of good conduct and professional service without the need for the kind of official regulation in force in the USA , as laid down by the Association of Executive Search Consultants , ( formerly the Association of Executive Recruitment Consultants ) . |
| 27 | They passed the Littlegate of St Paul 's where a lay brother was feeding a group of lepers with mouldy bread and rancid pork slices , as laid down by the city fathers who judged such food actually helped them . |
| 28 | One farmer was killed when his tractor overturned ; another died when run over by the vehicle ; a third was crushed when the uncabbed tractor he was driving overturned ; and a fourth , a student home on holiday , died when thrown from the cab of his overturning vehicle . |