Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | Where she was attacked by a male er who who pushed her down to the ground , and raped her , and then made off . |
2 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
3 | Like a glass shattered by a soprano 's voice the span disintegrates into small fragments . |
4 | In fact it has three of the blighters , two of which are occupied by a VL-bus ET4000 Super VGA card and a cached IDE host adaptor , the first I 've seen . |
5 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
6 | The south portal of the old Woodhead tunnel at Dunford Bridge is approached by a class B7 in about 1947 . |
7 | Watch the Iraqi strongman slump to the ground as he is felled by a sniper 's bullet . |
8 | Racy and instructive as this was , my eye was caught by a Gordon 's Gin ad on the opposite page . |
9 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Pears suffered a terrible gash and was brave to continue after being caught by a player 's studs . |
10 | We assume in ( 4 ) that the gains to be had from following the custom of membership are modified by an individual 's level of commitment to unionism , or evaluation of the reputation from unionism , given by . |
11 | The rubber had been cut wide open , as though slashed by a surgeon 's knife . |
12 | It began as an action upon the case ( apparently for negligence ) at Liverpool Assizes , and A secured a verdict , subject to the award of an arbitrator , who was afterwards empowered by a judge 's order to state a special case instead of making an award . |
13 | The Chartist , William Lovett , quotes with approval a description , written by a labourer 's son in 1840 , of the cottage of a ( symbolic ? ) |
14 | The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light . |
15 | Morsels of luscious chocolate that seem shaped by a jeweller 's hand are filled with sumptuous extravagances . |
16 | From these examples it is clear that the acquisition of fundamental human characteristics does not occur instinctively ; indeed , such behaviour is predominantly shaped by an individual 's immediate social environment . |
17 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
18 | The review board is usually chaired by a Queen 's Counsel ( a barrister ) with two technical assessors . |
19 | Profits made by a parents ' association are liable to taxation , registration with the Charity Commissioners enables the association to escape tax liability . |
20 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
21 | In the family proceedings court an appointment may be made by a justices ' clerk . |
22 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
23 | In 1970 , with the demise of the brigade system , The King 's Own Royal Border Regiment was given an entirely new badge : a white metal lion within a brass laurel wreath surmounted by a Queen 's Crown . |
24 | Indeed , some of the basic policies adopted by a company 's flight operations department may be related to the findings or recommendations of the flight safety section . |
25 | Gastric acid secretion is mediated by a H + , K + ATPase on the apical membrane of the partietal cell which extrudes H + in exchange for K + . |
26 | A local trip freight pulls out in the direction of Staveley hauled by a class J69 on 16th June 1956 . |
27 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
28 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
29 | They eliminate the need to purify the most useful of the wide range of different antibodies produced by an animal 's immune system after an injection of foreign material . |
30 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |