Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
| 2 | ( Incidentally , I suspect the risks of abuse would be considerably less if the ‘ pay ’ were fought for and won by a united feminist campaign on the grounds that housewives work and deserve money for that reason , than if it were graciously granted by government in a mood of pronatalist , pro-family , antifeminist zeal to cut the costs of the social services . ) |
| 3 | This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer . |
| 4 | Again in Capital Marx set out to demonstrate that the workings of an entire economic system could be logically derived from and explained by a few materialist premises and the theory of class struggle . |
| 5 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a public house licence or a refreshment licence is in force shall be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening , except for Sundays when the permitted hours shall be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening but only in the case of premises in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been made to and granted by a licensing board in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act , which shall have effect . |
| 7 | That there is aggression in work enterprises has been a phenomenon pointed to and discussed by a number of psychoanalysts . |
| 8 | The image server may be equipped with optical disks — a high capacity but relatively low cost storage medium which is written to and read by a laser disk drive unit . |
| 9 | The union supported the idea of a national wage for seafarers , determined by and supervised by a National or London Joint Committee of the parties concerned and corresponding Local Joint Committees but proposed that labour should be supplied by the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union . |