Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creature was sketched and the drawing witnessed by all the crew before it was decapitated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 4 | The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | The reinforced waves reflected by all the small crystallites produce diffraction rings , or haloes , which are sharply defined for highly crystalline materials and become increasingly diffuse when the amorphous content is high . |
| 7 | In its final form the aid package replenished disaster relief funds depleted by both the disturbances in Los Angeles and by recent severe flooding in Chicago . |
| 8 | There should be a card signed by all the friends . |
| 9 | It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players . |
| 10 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | In referral meetings attended by all the staff , an educational psychologist , and an education social worker , decisions on particular cases are taken according to a broad consensus which operated around two major and related considerations . |
| 13 | I fully recognise the knowledge and experience possessed by both the hon. Members who have spoken in the debate . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is still possible to select a sample narrative representing the most " typical " narrative produced by all the groups . |
| 19 | The nature of the impairment of the system might be different for every patient , so each patient is unique ; yet all the impairments shown by all the patients are interpreted with reference to a single theory of the language processing system . |
| 20 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 21 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 22 | Ordinary , commercially-packaged Easter eggs made by all the well-known chocolate companies . |
| 23 | Whether this should be taken into account or not in calculating the value of total output depends on whether we require a measurement of the domestic output of the United Kingdom or a measurement of the output produced by all the factors of production owned by United Kingdom residents . |
| 24 | That should be decided in the light of the school 's priorities agreed by all the governors . |
| 25 | Perhaps Jesus meant by this the ‘ outcasts ’ of Jewish society , although it is equally possible that he meant that God 's message — the kingdom — was for everyone , regardless of race . |
| 26 | When they had passed by they wheeled and formed a huge square lined by all the officers and flags , and then Negus Mikael was brought in . |
| 27 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 28 | The fact is simply that the two colours do not possess universal symbolic meanings shared by all the peoples of the globe . |
| 29 | Diplomatic sources considered that Abubakar 's prospects in presidential elections next year would thus be enhanced , as he acquired political authority recognized by all the traditional hierarchy of northern Nigeria . |
| 30 | Business investment rose 11% , while world trade expanded by 9.3 the fastest this decade . |