Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the highest value was put on just being there , the willingness to sit by a bedside and to do more listening than talking , the patience with inconsistencies and sudden reversals of mood and the readiness to come back , week after week . |
| 2 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 3 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 4 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 5 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
| 6 | On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade . |
| 7 | The impetus behind this increase was probably provided by a decision given by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 which declared forced segregation unconstitutional in all public educational institutions . |
| 8 | The recurrence of Gough 's injury looks , if the reaction of his team-mates was a reliable barometer , to be a serious one and is the latest blow sustained by the Ibrox captain in a season that has been punctuated by mishaps . |
| 9 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 10 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 11 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
| 12 | THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed a suspended sentence received by a man convicted of indecent assault and incest with his 15-year-old daughter , despite submissions by the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , QC , that the sentence was too lenient . |
| 13 | The Maggot 's Beechcraft clawed higher , its progress punctuated by the alarm sirens that the Maggot ignored and which the senator had learned not to worry about . |
| 14 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 15 | Several officers set out when a car was stolen from Gloucester City centre when a pedestrian had his foot crushed by a police car , then another vehicle crashed into the stolen Rapier . |
| 16 | My Lords , the underlying subject matter of these tax appeals is the correct basis for valuing benefits in kind received by the taxpayers who are schoolmasters . |
| 17 | Thurmaston , just to the north of Leicester , was another village that had become dependent upon framework knitting by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 19 | ‘ the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 20 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 21 | The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity . |
| 22 | Section 39 is not itself a legislative provision , so the issue is whether Parliament intended by the legislation conferring such powers on the Bank of England that a section 39 notice should revoke or vary an injunction , or permit a party subject to the injunction to act in apparent breach thereof without attracting the sanctions of contempt of court . |
| 23 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 24 | In saying this , I do not overlook the enormous amount of on the whole useful and imaginative work on a new-style curriculum undertaken by the Schools Council . |
| 25 | That is still the position and the direction given by the family proceedings court runs contrary to that principle . |
| 26 | A plane wave solution for a wave travelling along the direction given by the unit vector n in n is where k is the wave number . |
| 27 | Analysis of political power in terms of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , with distinctions between ‘ institutional ’ and ‘ systemic ’ agendas , derives largely from the non-decision-making approach and is the nearest neo-elitism has come to producing general models of the kind favoured by the traditional elitists . |
| 28 | The driver was dead , his chest crushed by the steering wheel . |
| 29 | The impression of protection given by the chassis is backed up by tireless brakes , which despite the huge weight needed to be slowed , dealt with our fade test with ease . |
| 30 | The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts . |