Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited three days for the sun to come out but to no avail , so on a very grey , cloudy day I set my easel by the French doors , put my paints and brushes on a high stool next to me and started . |
| 2 | ‘ What I am conscious of when I see the colour blue ’ , says Mill ‘ is a feeling of blue colour ’ — a feeling excited in my mind by the outward object . |
| 3 | So I shall have to slip into my flat by the front window . |
| 4 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 5 | More frequently they try to manipulate the media to their advantage by the selective release of carefully timed and adjusted information and by threatening , punishing , and intimidating media staff . |
| 6 | Her election by the Left Alliance 's executive committee was aimed at reversing the decline in electoral support for the 10-party alliance evidenced in the general election of April 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] . |
| 7 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 8 | Psychologists tend to focus on behaviour as the expression of certain psychological propensities while sociologists tend to see human behaviour as shaped in its course by the social context of human life . |
| 9 | the jet held on its course by the steady pressure of an image |
| 10 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
| 11 | She was smiling to herself as she let herself into her kitchen by the back door . |
| 12 | I held its stretcher by the middle bar , |
| 13 | One craftily claws her stocking by the Big Cat flap . |
| 14 | The Conservatives increased their vote by the sensational proportion of 37 per cent . |
| 15 | No-one ever told Artemis Deverill that her mother had been killed out hunting that fine October morning , knocked from her horse by the young Stanhope-Murray boy as he tried to thrust his way past her , jumping a hedge and instantly breaking her neck . |
| 16 | In 1940 Scotland was ‘ invaded ’ by thousands of Polish soldiers , driven from their homeland by the German army . |
| 17 | But it would be useful to give some brief background of their incorporation by the Christian Church . |
| 18 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 19 | He himself had not ceased to ‘ press for its review by the full Cabinet ’ , pressure which eventually brought about his downfall . |
| 20 | Only in the third game did she give free rein to her flair and Jackman was thrown off her stride by the abrupt increase in pace . |
| 21 | That is , indeed , the line which has been taken in cases concerning the Scottish Union legislation ( e.g. McCormick v Lord Advocate , [ 1953 ] SC 396 ; Gibson v Lord Advocate , ( 1975 ) SLT 134 ) which , however , have failed thus far because none of the acts complained of as allegedly infringing the terms of union ( e.g. the conferment upon Her Majesty by the Royal Titles Act 1953 of the title of ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Second ’ , when there had never been an Elizabeth the First of Scotland ) has in fact infringed those terms . |
| 22 | its run by the blinking erm unions Labour |
| 23 | His words faded , and he put his hands on her shoulders again and turned her face him , holding her gaze by the sheer power of his will until , steeled and strengthened by her desperate need to break the spell , Merrill wrenched herself away to open the car door . |
| 24 | No self-respecting working educational body , much as it may desire to retain close and friendly relations with the Board ( of Education ) , Universities , etc. , can go on being hampered in its work by the increasing number of organisations concerned either telling it what to do , what it should not do , or advising it in both these directions … there is a grave danger of our movement ultimately being strangled by our friends . |
| 25 | Not till the early 430s , at the acme of her power , did she manage to establish a presence at Amphipolis , and its capture by the Spartan Brasidas in 424 was one of her most damaging losses in the Archidamian War , the responsibility , if not the fault , lying at the door of the historian Thucydides , who was commanding in the area . |
| 26 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 27 | The earthen pillar was still called the arooseh , the bride of the Nile , and its drowning by the rising waters was greeted with great cheers and tumult by the watching crowds . |
| 28 | The Meech Lake Accord , a package of amendments to the Canadian Constitution , collapsed on June 23 , having failed to achieve the necessary ratification by the legislatures of all 10 provinces within two years of its passage by the federal House of Commons ( on June 22 , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Owned since its formation by the clearing banks ( eighty-five per cent ) and the Bank of England ( fifteen per cent ) , it represents a commercially successful , City-based initiative to help meet British industry 's long-term capital requirements . |
| 30 | Thus the Jesuits were readmitted : as elsewhere in Europe , the appropriation of the Gallican-regalist tradition by revolutionaries made its continuation by the restored monarchies an impossibility . |