Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressed in the simplest terms , however , normal flight depends on the creation by a propeller-like action of the wings of a zone of low pressure in front of and above the insect and one of high pressure behind and below it , the consequent movement being a resultant of the thrust provided by the insect and forces due to gravity and air-resistance . |
| 2 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 3 | However , he warned of the threat posed by the secession issue to the future of perestroika , commenting : " We have embarked on this path and I am the one who chose it . |
| 4 | The active , courageous aspect of Carlotta and her lover Don Manuel is suggested now and again in the echoes of the conflict heard by the reader before they are heard by Hi Ridden . |
| 5 | The unique and highly flavoursome style of Russian music-making — those remarkable timbres called upon by the singers , the extraordinary depth of the tone offered by the orchestral strings and the sound of the brass — is now being captured using the finest technology that we , in the West , have come to expect . |
| 6 | Of the correspondence received by the French foreign ministry in 1893 , for example , over 70 per cent dealt with commercial and consular affairs : but this had to be coped with by a staff of only twenty-one against the twenty-nine who handled the much smaller number of political despatches and telegrams . |
| 7 | During the course of the submissions made to the deputy judge the appellants through their counsel offered an undertaking in the terms of the order sought by the plaintiff . |
| 8 | In the premises , the duration of the order made by the justices was excessive . |
| 9 | There was no dispute in the proceedings before the judge , nor is there now , that the appellants were served with that notice of motion , as they had been earlier with the notice of the order made by the deputy judge . |
| 10 | An interim care order gives more flexibility to the plaintiffs as well as the other advantages of a care order and although , as I said at the outset , one rarely interferes with an interim order , in the present case I am less disinclined to interfere because of the initial invalidity of part of the order made by the justices . |
| 11 | It seeks , in place of the order made by the judge , an order declaring that the plaintiffs are not entitled to object to any items in the accounts , whether in respect of litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the costs are unreasonable in amount unless the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of the relevant costs . |
| 12 | However , this does not dispose of the problem presented by the secondary equations that Rosdolsky brought forward . |
| 13 | She took personal charge of the cellars and , well aware of the problem posed by the obstinate particles of sediment which refused to fall easily , spent night and day trying to rid herself of this nuisance . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved . |
| 15 | Domenico Sica , the High Commissioner responsible for co-ordinating the fight against the Mafia , delivered a lengthy report to the Constitutional Commission of the Chamber of Deputies in June 1990 , in which he gave a precise assessment of the scale of the problem represented by the Mafia . |
| 16 | With the curtailment of the service provided by the Company , at Mitcham , there would be the opportunity to make a number of economies . |
| 17 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 18 | Has an exercise been carried out to assess the required nursing establishment for the whole of the service provided by the health authority ? |
| 19 | He said rehabilitation , resettlement , retraining and grant aid were all integral parts of the service offered by the Legion , often after service personnel had been injured or disabled . |
| 20 | For nearly the whole distance between Lydham Heath ( the point of junction with the Branch to the town of Bishop 's Castle ) and Montgomery the completed line will pass through a rich agricultural district , containing a population nearly double that of the country occupied by the existing line , and the passenger traffic , from station to station , as well as to Craven Arms and the Cambrian Railway at Montgomery , will be proportionately larger . |
| 21 | During its early history the bill of lading was an appendage of the charter party and of the contract of ocean carriage The function of the bill of lading was to acknowledge receipt of the cargo delivered by the shipper to the shipowner , charterer , or master of the vessel and to summarize the principal terms of the contract of ocean freight . |
| 22 | The genome is indicated by the thick horizontal line and the clones as short thin lines below the genome line Probes are the shaded boxes indicating the regions of the genome spanned by the probes . |
| 23 | Consequently , while it is true to say that the sentence with the to infinitive evokes a realized event , this is only part of the story : it also evokes the dispositions of the support previous to the realization of the happening denoted by the infinitive . |
| 24 | This morning you will visit the most important of the 39 tombs quarried out of the hillside built by the provincial princes of this district in 11th and 12th Dynasties . |
| 25 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 26 | Thus , as above , letting can be analysed as inseparable from the realization of the event evoked by the infinitive . |
| 27 | The perfective aspect , as Hirtle 1975 has shown , evokes something resultative : it represents the subject of the verb as being in the result phase of the event denoted by the past participle . |
| 28 | Thus do evokes the taking place in time — in the stretch of time in the past or non-past required to realize it — of the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 29 | It is a brand new architect-designed building which will offer us improved space and usage and we are taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the move to install an enhanced IT system . |
| 30 | In practice few companies have made use of the opportunity provided by the Act to start generating electricity on a substantial scale . |