Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am confirmed in my conclusions by the terms of the Order of 1991 . |
| 2 | In the reconstruction of the city about 475 B.C. , after its sack by the Persians , Hippodamos was able to put forward his ideas on urban planning . |
| 3 | It was the second of the new Abbasid caliphs , Abu Jaafar Mansur ( 754–75 ) , who founded the city of Baghdad , a resplendent centre-piece for the empire until its sack by the Mongols in 1258 under Hulagu Khan . |
| 4 | And when she said , ‘ I might need to , and then I 'd just walk out , ’ Agnes was round the table as if she had been shot there and , holding her sister by the shoulders , she cried at her , ‘ Do n't do that , Jessie ! |
| 5 | " Tilda , " said Martha , stopping suddenly and taking her sister by the shoulders , " I 'll give you anything you like , within reason , to go back to the boats and stay there . " |
| 6 | They walked on , scanning the shadows , leaving markers at the foot of the Trees , trying to gauge their direction by the stars . |
| 7 | No possible confusion of identities could have occurred since Lady Tynte was able to recognize her favourite by the nobs on its toes , which were unaffected by its change in appearance ( Hunter , 1837 ) . |
| 8 | There poor Paddies in London even now , God love them , who have been driven out of their homes by the Proddies . |
| 9 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 10 | Maxwell and Murdoch were no doubt entrenched in their organizations by the complexities of cross-holdings and foreign-registered companies , but their personal holdings were proportionately small , particularly in comparison with their predecessors . |
| 11 | as if enraged at its defeat by the mountains , the hurricane once more turned inland . |
| 12 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |
| 13 | Sensitivity , be it noted , was the quality most often claimed for their offspring by the parents in the course of their conversations and consultations that evening . |
| 14 | On returning to Genappe shortly after its capture by the fusiliers , he found them ‘ busy ’ … |
| 15 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 16 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 17 | Matsushita said the transaction was subject , among other things , to working out mutually acceptable definitive agreements and their approval by the directors of both Matsushita and Philips . |
| 18 | They can scarcely be taken as a serious reason for the ‘ backwardness ’ of the Siberian peoples , nor as a justification for their subjugation by the Russians . |
| 19 | As annual consumption of wine has risen from five to 11 litres per head in the decade between 1977 and 1987 , the high-street off-licence has seen a golden opportunity snatched from under its nose by the supermarkets . |
| 20 | ERNEST AND JULIO GALLO CHOOSE THEIR PICKERS BY THE GRAPES THEY LEAVE BEHIND . |
| 21 | Is the outcome of 1917 explicable in terms of a relatively backward country being caught off balance at a critical moment in its development by the contingencies of international relations ? |
| 22 | The recorded history of Siberia begins ( apart from some references in early Chinese works ) with its invasion by the Russians in the late sixteenth century . |
| 23 | Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll . |
| 24 | They remained long enough to give their name to the region of Italy where they settled , and to create the marcher duchy of Friuli as a buffer zone against attacks on their kingdom by the occupiers of the Sava-Danube lowlands — the Slavs and their overlords , the Avars . |
| 25 | On 26 November 1830 , hungry , cold , sickly and tied to their parish by the restrictions of the Poor Removals Act , the destitute of Combsburgh rose in an outbreak of physical violence . |
| 26 | The last redoubt of the ‘ arm 's length ’ policy would then be the national theatre companies and a chorus of voices is calling for their retention by the Arts Council . |
| 27 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 28 | British chieftains were slaughtered in their sleep by the Saxons during a peace conference , and in Welsh history this is known as the ‘ treason of the long knives ’ . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office on May 8 announced that the UK would return to Albania gold worth £10,000,000 ( US$18,000,000 ) which had come into British hands after its confiscation by the Nazis during the Second World War . |
| 30 | The imperative to act upon the promptings of benevolence was crucial to some notable opponents of the slave trade ; its frustration by the traders amounted to disruption of providential means to harmony . |