Example sentences of "[noun] by [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor , poor language , attacked in its innocence by feminists intent on destroying its virtue . |
| 2 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 3 | We do know that responses by women members of the Legitimation League were cautious and ambiguous , highlighting the tensions felt by feminists in committing themselves to a libertarian politics . |
| 4 | The unit has pulled together information from undercover work by police forces throughout the country , like here in Manchester . |
| 5 | Fortunately for us all , those skills are possessed to a considerable degree by police officers of every rank . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , a hunger strike by SNS supporters against the Slovak language law passed in October had been resumed on Nov. 8 , but called off on Nov. 19 . |
| 7 | THE FOSSIL RECORD shows that throughout the history of life on Earth the groups of animals that were dominant in any one age were often replaced wholesale in the next age by others animal of a quite different group ; and biologists have sometimes argued that such replacements occur because of direct competition between the old dominant type and the new . |
| 8 | Gains made this week by abortion-rights groups in the Florida legislature , in governors ' races in New Jersey and Virginia , and in the House of Representatives have weighted the balance markedly toward the pro-abortion forces . |
| 9 | It was monitoring by abolitionists which prompted the seizure by customs officers of a Spanish vessel fitting out at Gravesend for entry into the Cuban slave trade . |
| 10 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the rape of Jackie Berkley by police officers at Moss Side police station , and the shooting of Cherry Groce in Brixton and Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham during police raids on their homes . |
| 11 | The alleged conspirators had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before arrest . |
| 12 | This can be accessed within seconds by police officers across the country . |
| 13 | The French action followed the interception by customs officers over the previous weeks of about 20 German lorries carrying dangerous waste . |
| 14 | It started out as a means of protecting Parliamentary privilege and was probably first stated as a principle back in the 18th century by Willes J in Millar v Taylor . |
| 15 | Elgiva , like Terentia in the earlier play , is powerless : she is effectively sold by her mother and then held prisoner by men intent on raping her . |
| 16 | Requests by arts teachers for both short and long courses have been very poor . |
| 17 | The fear , following fierce controversy over political interference in England 's separate curriculum by ministers south of the Border , is that the document will also be used to put a political stamp on the Scottish scheme . |