Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda knew that she would never again be able to wear her own panties , their prettiness contaminated for ever by the memory of this dead unknown girl . |
| 2 | Quite separately , the two children , Princess Beatrice , three , and Princess Eugenie , two , have been independently looked after again by the Queen ! |
| 3 | They followed Miss Williams 's directions to the Morgan family , and knocked on the door , being let in promptly by the stocky WPC who had stayed in the house with the women of the Morgan family . |
| 4 | In magnificent mountain scenery , the country 's capital of Kathmandu straddles a pinnacle in a tumble of ancient palaces and temples , encroached upon only by the trees and greenery which dot the scene . |
| 5 | If the American presence during the war period was looked upon ambivalently by the local population , its continued presence at Chaguaramas , following the cessation of hostilities , would lead to a protracted dispute between the foreign powers and the government of Trinidad and Tobago , a government led by that most unambivalent of men , Dr.Eric Williams . |
| 6 | It was one of the slimmest , and the envelopes in it were pinched in slightly by the pressure of the bands . |
| 7 | It shows that while the UK was in deep deficit in trade with the dollar area , in most years this was added to significantly by the deficit of the rest of the sterling area ( broadly speaking , the Dominions minus Canada , plus the colonies , plus a few other countries like Iraq ) . |
| 8 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 9 | The costs and benefits of the scheme are being looked at closely by the regional flood defence committee and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 10 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 11 | As early as the 1880s , however , the new order was already being threatened from below by the rise of mass anti-semitic movements on the right and of the working-class movement on the left . |
| 12 | His body , overwritten with coloured filaments and moving equations , was almost invisible ; his face was a mask , illuminated from below by the rainbow sprays of tiny linked shapes springing from the sphere . |
| 13 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 14 | It would have been nice to have had somebody so that they could have been turned on together by the faint giggles and murmured conversation coming from upstairs . |
| 15 | Get these seen to immediately by the tournament doctor , then strap the injured finger(s) between adjacent uninjured digits . |
| 16 | But one practical contribution could be made at once by the IBA and the Governors of the BBC . |
| 17 | But from the look of his clothes it would n't seem that he 'd been jostled about much by the tide . |
| 18 | Angela Foley , the twenty-seven-year-old personal secretary to the Director of Hoggatt 's Laboratory , picked up the envelope and guessed at once by the quality of the paper , the expertly typed address and the London postmark what it must be . |
| 19 | It was opened at once by the Town Clerk . |
| 20 | If all diabetics were cared for solely by the hospital , then diabetic clinics would be overloaded leading to difficulties maintaining standards , and the expertise and interest in the community would probably decline . |
| 21 | The three two lurchers and a Staffordshire bull terrier are being cared for now by the RSPCA workers who believe they had n't eaten for at least a month . |
| 22 | Its structures , moreover , are irregular , supposedly answering to the needs of those within , not dictated from without by the demands of symmetry ; their emphasis is vertical , aspiring heavenwards ( as the Victorians frequently remarked ) , where that of the classical house is horizontal , connecting with the values of this earth . |
| 23 | In spring their window was lit from above by the yellow glow of a thick row of bright daffodils . |
| 24 | Behind them rose plumes of steam lit from below by the crackling death of his amps . |
| 25 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 26 | Whether it be participation through music-making or through response to performance ( dance , other body-movement , shouts of enthusiasm , the social paraphernalia of shared fanship , and so on ) , the increased specialization of musical labour together with mass media distribution , which together deliver ‘ high-quality ’ professional products into our homes , render all such ‘ participation ’ anachronistic ; it becomes an exercise in self-deception since it is manipulated from above by the consumer industries , the fetishistic relation hidden beneath a mask of self-directed activity and ‘ spontaneity ’ . |
| 27 | Secondly , if the provision of the directive in question is sufficiently clear and unconditional , it may be relied upon directly by the citizen against the defaulting Member State . |
| 28 | Lexical processing may be adequately dealt with either by the use of wordlists or simple morphological processing . |
| 29 | In practice most councils adopt a policy of partial delegation , so that routine matters may be dealt with expeditiously by the committees , whilst matters of major importance and controversial issues are referred to the full council for decision . |
| 30 | When the situation seemed to warrant it , or the moment seemed opportune , these were dealt with briskly by the forces of law and order : there was little sign of any paralysis of will in this respect on the part of the British in India . |