Example sentences of "[subord] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 2 | By 1929 the drift towards a new cinema as being picked up by the critics , who eagerly pointed out both what they liked in the new films and what they thought would be well received by audiences . |
| 3 | In 455 , the year after Aëtius 's murder , and the year in which Valentinian III was assassinated , they were clearly extending their territory , since they are recorded as being driven back by the Gepids . |
| 4 | But , in pursuit of joint oversight responsibilities for these facilities in Wales , did the Secretary of State for Wales plead with that Department on the ground of regional policy alone as is pointed out by the Hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan ( Sir R. Gower ) , who is sadly absent today , in his early day motion that it makes no sense to move hi-tech jobs in Government research and development from an area such as south Wales to an overheated area in the south-east of England ? |
| 5 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 6 | So it is clear that the two kinds of productivity — children and intellectual achievements — can be combined , as is borne out by the subsequent careers of the forty two students who matriculated in 1966 and who answered the questionnaire . |
| 7 | Moreover , despite his comment on the Cistercians , Richard was a notably generous benefactor to them , as was pointed out by the chronicler from the Cistercian house at Coggeshall in Essex . |
| 8 | However , as was pointed out by the Court of Appeal in Coward v Comex Houlder Diving Ltd ( 1988 ) ( reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-322 ) the conventional percentage does not necessarily apply where the wife had been earning a considerable sum herself prior to her husband 's death or presumably where she had a substantial private income : see also Davies v Hawes ( 1990 ) reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-323 . |
| 9 | This is , I suspect , the beginning of a process that will lead to much the same outcome as was brought about by the hundreds of Government amendments — sometimes running into four figures — that have been tabled to similar Bills . |