Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 2 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 3 | I think it 's also entertainment the excellent wage of services placed on by Harlow Council . |
| 4 | When Fanny died in Florence in 1866 , shortly after giving birth to their only son , the brooch was engraved with a memorial inscription and passed on by Hunt to her sister , Edith , who came out to Italy to look after the baby . |
| 5 | This is the continuance of Thatcher 's truth , passed on by Major and his gang of incompetents . |
| 6 | There 's Tufnell again passed on by John Hampshire , bowling in sweeps that , he gets it away very fine indeed , he 's running right underneath us here , he gets to the ball now , you can almost hear his footsteps , past the and a good return , and has two . |
| 7 | UNITA was now reinforcing its northern front , centred on the town of Beu in Uige province some 50 km from the border with Zaïre , its supplies augmented by the US military equipment which was flown in by Hercules transport aircraft via Zaïre . |
| 8 | Flown in by AVM John Allison , this aircraft — in John 's hands — led the 16-ship Phantom formation flypast over London on June 13 to celebrate HM The Queen 's Official Birthday . |
| 9 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 10 | Most people feel that BBC standards are of the highest order , in keeping with the basic principles laid down by Lord Reith , the BBC 's founder and first Director-General . |
| 11 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 12 | In 1752 England at last adopted the calendar laid down by Pope Gregory in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar which , after 16 centuries , was ten days out of true with the natural seasons . |
| 13 | All the tenets of software pricing , laid down by IBM Corp for its mainframes and slavishly copied by the rest of the industry , are being swept away with the erosion of IBM 's dominance . |
| 14 | The principles of training laid down by Stirling differed from those in the Commandos , where a group of volunteers , once recruited , were nursed up to the required standard . |
| 15 | We are here at the beginning of a new phase in the restoration of old customs and the addition of new ones , which in a brief space of time greatly altered the liturgical arrangements laid down by Lanfranc . |
| 16 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 17 | In Latin America other schools of thought have arisen , such as those of Masi and Orthega , but it is yet to be demonstrated that they are any more effective than the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of his Organon of Rational Healing . |
| 18 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 19 | The sultan , afraid of Russian support for the Serbs , and shaken by Karadjordje 's military victories , agreed to terms laid down by Serbia in September 1806 . |
| 20 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them . |
| 22 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |
| 23 | However , I have argued that this need not be so ; the classical perspective , in the basic form laid down by Beccaria , has much greater potential than has been exploited so far . |
| 24 | Miller included twelve roses in his final Catalogue of Plants in the Garden ( 1770 ) , of which six are recorded among the plants received by the Royal Society under the conditions laid down by Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 25 | The key objective is a 15 per cent return on equity , and all business within the group is conducted at arm 's length on guidelines laid down by CB at the centre . |
| 26 | I would respectfully follow and adopt the broad statement of principle laid down by Isaacs J. cited earlier and frequently quoted and applied in the Australian cases . |
| 27 | The first specimen to be formally described according to the rules laid down by Linnaeus ( and later codified by Strickland and others from 1842 on ) is the type , and these are carefully kept in great museums , which exchange duplicates after due comparison . |
| 28 | I emphasise that the Community has made it clear that it is ready to continue and to complete the negotiations according to the work plan laid down by Mr. Dunkel . |
| 29 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 30 | We give our judgment merely on the principle laid down by Eyre C.J. in Cheetham v. Ward ( 1797 ) 1 Bos. & P. 630 , as sanctioned by unquestionable authority , that the debtee 's discharge of one joint and several debtor is a discharge of all . |