Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 10th Bill Crist , the president of the Calpers board , was invited to address a Tokyo conference laid on by the Keidanren , a big-business association . |
| 2 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 3 | Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality . |
| 4 | Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities . |
| 5 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 6 | On Nov. 25 a programme agreed on by the coalition partners was announced in the National Assembly . |
| 7 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 8 | Montagu 's stated intention was to ‘ hold India ’ not by main force but ‘ by just institutions , and more and more as time goes on by the consent of the governed ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Like ground-up brick dust , peed on by a cat . ’ |
| 10 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 11 | The record price for a suit was one hundred pounds , and that was brand new , passed on by a lunatic who changed his mind as soon as he had taken it home . |
| 12 | The first is the period of oral tradition when the stories of Jesus were used and passed on by the Church . |
| 13 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 14 | The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . |
| 15 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 16 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 17 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 18 | She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself . |
| 19 | ‘ Sit down by the fire and tell me all about it . ’ |
| 20 | You sit down by the fire , you 're wet and cold . |
| 21 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 22 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 23 | Sir George drew the curtains , and motioned Roland and Maud to sit down by the fire , in the velvet chairs . |
| 24 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 25 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |
| 26 | Well , immediately on the left there 's a door an and the hall goes along by the path that you , you come up to that door . |
| 27 | In the context of the present case , however , it was not necessary to determine whether there were any conceivable circumstances in which Community law might affect rules in that sphere laid down by a member state . |
| 28 | He also saw that if the parties did not approve of a rule laid down by a court — a ‘ certain rule ’ — they could choose to vary it by contract . |
| 29 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 30 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |