Example sentences of "[verb] by the [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single premium life assurance market was , over the past two years , dominated by the with profit bond . |
| 2 | Everything 's owned by the by the government and er , I know it 's not a right good thing , like , but if it could work properly , it would be a damn good thing . |
| 3 | As a consequence , oblige can be used even when the event denoted by the to infinitive has not yet been realized : ( 165 ) The law obliges everyone to pay his taxes . |
| 4 | This is the first of er two lectures on the American presidency and erm I want to begin just by putting the presidency in , in context erm thus far I hope it 's clear that the American pol political system is one in which authority is firstly limited by the constitution in which authority dispersed by the by virtue of the separation of powers . |
| 5 | Because a detailed record of economic activity statuses was collected by the After Redundancy study , it was possible to compare the proportion of time spent by each person since being made redundant in different forms of employment status . |
| 6 | In 1681 , the Burgh of Selkirk , having chosen Sir Patrick Murray , who did not reside in that burgh , to be their commissioner to Parliament , a charge was given both to the burgh and to Sir Patrick for payment of the penalty imposed by the of Convention . |
| 7 | Well the bit just past Ripley no will be bypassed by the by the Killinghall er section . |
| 8 | Thanks to this way of analysing the movement of to , the expressive effects of unexpectedness , good or bad luck and the like produced by the to infinitive in these cases can be accounted for . |
| 9 | In elections on May 17 to the 77-seat unicameral Congress , the PSC emerged as the largest party with 21 seats , followed by the PRE with 13 and the PUR with 12 . |
| 10 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |
| 11 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 12 | Know can also be found in the operative sense followed by the to infinitive : ( 110 ) I 've never known him to lie to me . |
| 13 | Force , for example , conveys an idea of coercion similar to that expressed by make in many of its uses , and yet , like cause , it is followed by the to infinitive : ( 159 ) An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1949 season . |
| 14 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 15 | Although rare , there are some examples of make followed by the to infinitive . |
| 16 | The above contexts where make is followed by the to infinitive , far from disproving the explanation given above of why this verb is generally construed with the bare infinitive , confirm it therefore most convincingly . |
| 17 | And it had been known that er the Tories that the Tories through the medium of er the economic league , you know , their their propaganda organization , the economic league , which was er which was substantially supported by the by the coal owners |
| 18 | The basic hydrolysis reaction can be illustrated by the of the silicate mineral albite ( a sodium-rich plagioclase feldspar mineral kaolinite : |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , the global distribution of wealth is strongly influenced by the mid-to high-latitude location of the United States and Canada , Japan , the nations of Western Europe , and , in the Southern Hemisphere , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 20 | exactly , so it would be a document issued by the by you the with the intention of what Mr and in effect update brochure here and in charge |
| 21 | 2.1 TWO TYPES OF MEANING EXPRESSED BY THE TO INFINITIVE |
| 22 | An examination of the actual meaning expressed by the to infinitive after verbs of perception in the active voice shows therefore a necessary before/after relationship between the event of the verb of perception ( which has shifted to evoke the notion of inference ) and the event of the infinitive ( which denotes the conclusion reached by means of the inference ) . |
| 23 | Most historians use Buck 's land survey data and statistics erm work by the for the nineteen thirties to draw comparisons with official data which was collected for tax purposes from nineteen fifty two onwards but there 's very little data from the period of land reform itself . |
| 24 | Now remember this coral is from the western side of Isabella Island and at this location water temperatures are primarily controlled by the of cold , deep water as the trade winds blow from east to west across the islands . |