Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he was not in the category ordained by the Marketing Department for the evening was neither here nor there . |
| 2 | Accommodation for teaching , child assessment , occupational and speech therapy and ENT services will be provided in the space created by the redevelopment . |
| 3 | The judge obviously thought that A had told a tall story , but he had to accept the facts in the Case Stated by the Crown . |
| 4 | The Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 , s.12 initiated a right to reasoned decisions which were to be treated as part of the record , but only in the sphere covered by the Act . |
| 5 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 6 | The East Lancashire Railway has celebrated its receipt of the Steam Heritage Award for their steam crane in the scheme sponsored by the Transport Trust and the ARPS . |
| 7 | In the half-light cast by the lamps the metal of the Smith and Wesson .38 and the Beretta 92s gleamed . |
| 8 | This theme of joy won through suffering was especially powerful in the persecution faced by the early church , as it has been in times of persecution since . |
| 9 | She had found an opportunity to creep into the large saloon at the front downstairs , where in the gloom created by the velvet curtains drawn across the windows she had seen that the large and ugly old-fashioned Queen Anne furniture was shrouded in sheets . |
| 10 | In considering the evolution of the mental capacities of the human being we need to remind ourselves that evolution occurs through the differential selection of traits with survival value in the habitat adopted by the animals . |
| 11 | Originally launched as a diploma in 1957 , the MSc in Applied Linguistics has since grown into one of the most comprehensive Master 's programmes of its kind in the country taught by the department with the close collaboration of the Institute for Applied Language Studies ( IALS ) , which is part of the department with a specialist interest in practical language pedagogy . |
| 12 | He was aided by a wave of anti-Iraqi feeling in the country generated by the mass of Egyptians fleeing from Kuwait and Iraq . |
| 13 | In the century inaugurated by the Investiture Conflict , Suger 's greeting was doubly remarkable . |
| 14 | Her patients receive ‘ fresh personalities , refashioned at least to fit the coming decade , if not perhaps exactly in the style intended by the original designer ’ ( 33 ) . |
| 15 | This is indicated in the law reports by the abbreviation cur. adv. vult ( curia advisari vult which translates ‘ the court wishes to be advised ’ ) at the end of the judgments . |
| 16 | Yes , but is my Noble Friend aware that the point of view expressed in the question put by the Noble Lord , Lord and my Noble Friend the Noble Lord would represent the point of view of most parents who are concerned about having religious education at the beginning ? |
| 17 | Was the existence of the penalty clause in Williams v. Roffey or the potential default of the other buyers in Anangel an element in the price paid by the respective promisees ? |
| 18 | It is true that the paper plans , as set out in the award made by the commissioners , did not produce all the physical changes at once , as we shall see in due course ; but the transformation of the landscape was , all the same , remarkably swift . |
| 19 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 20 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 21 | Besides its inherent flexibility — avoiding the need to file prospectuses and accounts for example — the attraction of borrowing in eurobond markets can be related , first , to desire on the part of borrowers to diversify sources of funding and , second , to desire to minimise uncertainty in international contracts by issuing claims denominated in the currency specified by the contract ( e.g. a UK firm issuing eurodollar bonds to finance trade or direct investment in the US ) . |
| 22 | But yes , yes … now the Warlords were angling away from one another as they tramped thunderously towards the Marines — who could certainly see them now through veils of smoke in the darkness riven by the lightning of explosions . |
| 23 | It was only after protracted debate , in which Athanasius of Alexandria , Hilary of Poitiers , and others fought a stubborn campaign of resistance to the Eastern court that Nicene orthodoxy finally triumphed , both in the government 's legislation and in the creed adopted by the Council of Constantinople in 381 . |
| 24 | Guardian northern editor John Course headed a judging panel of senior journalists in the competition organised by the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 25 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 26 | Some of them apparently feel that the move flies in the face of the philosophy expressed in the document prepared by the task force which examined the way ahead for BBC Scotland . |
| 27 | As a result , archaeologists need to use a great deal of interpretation to fill in the gaps in the evidence caused by the accidental survival of some remains while others have perished . |
| 28 | Thus , the no-boundary proposed is a good scientific theory in the sense defined by the philosopher Karl Popper : It can be disproved or falsified by observation . |
| 29 | Thus the higher values on the cumulative percentage by weight plot occur in the range characterized by the finer particles . |
| 30 | About one third of teams have catchment populations in the range recommended by the National Development Group — between 60,000 and 80,000 . |