Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by all " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these is the Runefang carried by all Elector Counts , and the other is the Dragon Bow of Ostland , a magic bow whose arrows are tipped with dragon horn . |
| 2 | The creature was sketched and the drawing witnessed by all the crew before it was decapitated . |
| 3 | When I went to visit him we sat in his book-lined study surrounded by all the trappings of an academic career but in his garage there were untreated specimens and a range of specialist tools . |
| 4 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 5 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 6 | For the health-conscious person , as well as those concerned about weight , they are a unique guide , making it possible to follow that major modern nutritional recommendation made by all leading medical authorities in the Western world : increase your intake of dietary fibre . |
| 7 | The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community . |
| 8 | Scientists have spotted a unique protein produced by all cancerous cells . |
| 9 | Measurements of water as well as of Na + and Cl - revealed significant changes toward secretion induced by all three doses of cholera toxin ( Tables I-III ) . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , thanks to the Government 's progressive policies in privatising the electricity industry , that area of south-east Essex deserves a visit because methane produced by all the muck that comes out of London is being dumped at Mucking Flats , converted into electricity and sold to the national grid , thanks to the enterprise of Cory 's , which is in my constituency ? |
| 11 | In this school there is a staff code of practice agreed by all , and working procedures are continuously reviewed at regular staff meetings . |
| 12 | There should be a card signed by all the friends . |
| 13 | It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players . |
| 14 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 15 | A role is created for the reader to play beyond that of the simple suspension of disbelief required by all fiction in the face , for instance , of such instances of an extraordinary control over his tale-telling by a supposedly drunken Miller as those just noted . |
| 16 | The work of the Economic Theory Study Group is thus complementary to the work undertaken by all other Economic Study Groups financed by the E.S.R.C |
| 17 | To be a girl surrounded by all these men , it was sometimes wise to pretend to be deaf . |
| 18 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 19 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 20 | It is commonplace in Sweden , for example , that the annual declarations of personal income and of wealth made by all citizens become publicly available documents once they are received by the tax authorities ; a man can conceal his income neither from his wife nor from his neighbour . |
| 21 | In the last day or two , I have had some very positive comments about it and am most grateful for the amount of work done by all concerned . |
| 22 | Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories . |
| 23 | The high-voltage transmission and distribution sector served by all three companies had proved ‘ remarkably resilient ’ during the world-wide recession , it added . |
| 24 | The question begged by all these glowing predictions is whether they will ever be fulfilled . |
| 25 | Coun Fishwick said she was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm shown by all the children who entered , and the two chosen were a credit to Darlington . |
| 26 | This is the algorithm used by all programs that fit clones to the predetermined order of probes . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it is still possible to select a sample narrative representing the most " typical " narrative produced by all the groups . |
| 28 | To the east of the Worlds Edge Mountains , over Mad Dog Pass and Death Pass , is the Dark Land , a region of desolation inhabited by all kinds of evil creatures including Chaos Dwarfs , Orcs , Goblins and especially Black Orcs . |
| 29 | Amusing gimmickry enjoyed by all who crowd the bars of this jolly mock-Victorian eating house . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm told ‘ t is a symptom suffered by all newly … ’ |