Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do I have my eyes shut by the way ? ’ |
| 2 | Thus , for example , in the National Health Service groups such as the consultants , junior doctors , administrators , nursing staff , GPs and so on , will all be striving to influence the organisation and to get their views accepted by the organisation . |
| 3 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 4 | Corporal punishment was abolished in state schools in the United Kingdom in 1987 after two Scottish mothers , Grace Campbell and Jane Cossans , had their cases upheld by the court . |
| 5 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 6 | The Working Party on Partnership in Validation met seven times between November 1977 and May 1979 , and submitted an interim report as expected in 1978 — only to find its proposals rejected by the Council . |
| 7 | Although not quite so export orientated , the Electronics sector sustains the greatest number of jobs through its exports followed by the Mechanical engineering industries . |
| 8 | Her wrist was stiff , her fingers calloused by the pen . |
| 9 | ‘ Both my parents are high achievers , And my two sisters had their futures planned by the time they were ten . |
| 10 | The employees appealed and it was held , allowing the appeal , that the industrial tribunal had erred in law in holding that an intention to compete in the future with their employers expressed by the employees in letters to their employers ' suppliers was in itself a breach of a duty of fidelity owed by the employees to the employers and that accordingly the dismissals had been unfair . |
| 11 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 12 | Your statement that ‘ the green parties in Europe — having had most of their policies co-opted by the bigger , slicker parties — are beginning to fade away ’ ( News of the Earth , October ) can not go unchallenged . |
| 13 | For example , some come within the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman ( Chapter 15 ) , some have their accounts audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and reported to the Public Accounts Committee ( Chapter 14 ) , some present annual reports to Parliament , and so on . |
| 14 | Under Dej , the once affluent bourgeois residents of Herastau , the attractive northern suburb of Bucharest , were evicted and their houses occupied by the new élite . |
| 15 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 16 | He identified the ‘ main positive significance of the concept of creating a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality ’ , despite ‘ its contradictions determined by the social-class nature of its ideologues ’ , in the gradual advance towards the accepted goal and in the realisation of the principle of peaceful coexistence which corresponds to it . |
| 17 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 18 | She could feel the moment when he decided to thrust her away from him , abruptly stepping back , the shock of their coming apart striking as swift as a blow , stunning her , so that she fell back against the parapet , her lips swollen by the passion of his taking , a soft anguished breath escaping from between them . |
| 19 | She needed every scrap of self-confidence she could rustle up , she thought , then grinned crookedly at the wary light in her eyes reflected by the glass . |
| 20 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's all right , Shirley , ’ Jenna managed quietly , her eyes held by the dark gaze . |
| 22 | Biarritz spreads amply out from its heart , at the Place Clemenceau , but its attractions lie by the sea , above all around the small , domesticated promontory that juts out into the froth and swirl of the Bay of Biscay between the Grande Plage in the centre of the town and the rather humbler Plage de la Cote tea Basques to the south . |
| 23 | That is why most newspapers , including , it has to be said , the much-maligned tabloids , have lent their weight to the Press Complaints Commission 's code of practice , and instructed their journalists to abide by the code 's provisions . |
| 24 | Professor John Davies , of Strathclyde University , claims more young drug users are having their lives wrecked by the courts than by the drugs themselves . |
| 25 | In February 1990 , Dr Tom McMillan , a clinical psychologist at Atkinson Morley Hospital in London , said most of his 11 Camelford patients still had their lives disrupted by the poisoning . |
| 26 | Claiming that millions of people had had their lives damaged by the teachings of Roman Catholicism , one correspondent wrote , ‘ There should be no restraint in asking the most searching questions of a man … who aspires to bring people and their children into the Catholic fold . ’ |
| 27 | The fire raging , greedily licking into the timbers and beams , while the sisters , the serenity of their lives shattered by the roaring flames , fled for safety . |
| 28 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 29 | Her ankles and shins were scratched and bloodied , her stockings shredded by the trackside weeds and nettles . |
| 30 | Today the planes are flying home … their pilots shaken by the first accident at Fairford in 23 years . |