Example sentences of "[verb] by the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your relationship is certainly not dominated by the man in your life ; you feel very positive about your sexuality , have no problems with leading the way in the bedroom and are well able to cope with any indiscretions in your marriage . |
| 2 | The period between May 1989 and February 1990 was dominated by the death in early June 1989 of the spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [ see pp. 36724-25 ] , and the struggle between " radical " and " pragmatist " factions within the Islamic regime and in the Majlis ( Parliament ) to establish their leadership in the post-Khomeini era . |
| 3 | ‘ It should be recorded that whatever her failings disclosed by the evidence in this trial , she deserves to be remembered as a vivacious , caring and decent young woman . ’ |
| 4 | Eventually he played the 4 and after I played the 7 from dummy , the trick was won by the King in the East seat . |
| 5 | No real concession should be won by the buyer in moving away from an insultingly low offer . |
| 6 | Mohammed Ali Samater , was sworn in on Feb. 17 by President Mohammed Siyad Barre , replacing that dismissed by the President in January [ see p. 37174 ; for previous full listing see p. 36757 ] . |
| 7 | It is extremely important at this stage to take unlimited amounts of time and trouble , as the success of your design will stand or fall by the way in which it is finished . |
| 8 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 9 | True , in formal terms the identity of the employer has not changed , but in the organisational terms stressed by the Court in Rask and in terms of the sorts of objections to the new controllers that the employees in Katsikas had in mind , the formal answer goes very little distance to meet the substance of their points . |
| 10 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
| 11 | Under the new law , liability is further particularised by the expression in question , so that it must be shown that the conduct was used towards another . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing much else , really , as you can see from what I told the Brigadier — except that , whatever 's happened , I 've got nothing to do with it — I expect she was attracted by the light in my window if she was lost . ’ |
| 13 | The issue compiles papers that were presented by women from the United Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches at a seminar on women in ministry which was organised by the Institute in April 1991 . |
| 14 | Organised by The Artist in association with the international Centre for Wildlife Art in Gloucestershire , the last deadline for submitting slides or photographs of work is March 31 . |
| 15 | Published in cooperation with the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the issue is based on research and articles presented at a seminar on ‘ Reporting the Gulf War ’ which was organised by the IAMCR in Istanbul , Turkey , last June . |
| 16 | It is now known that back in the ice age , glacial action had created a depression in the earth 's surface , in the area occupied by the field in which the seam was to outcrop . |
| 17 | Sarawak was occupied by the Japanese in 1941 , and the raja , in Australia at the time , was prevented from returning . |
| 18 | Sometimes the absolute measurement can not be used but the size can be deduced indirectly from viscosity measurements , which are related to the volume occupied by the chain in solution . |
| 19 | The Duke Street premises were first occupied by the club in 1945 . |
| 20 | It was destroyed in 1270 by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , Prince of Wales , and rebuilt by the Earl in 1271 . |
| 21 | Your former employer should pay the amount so claimed by the Department in respect of social security benefits that you have received . |
| 22 | The sale of part of the assets of BP oil owned by the government in Howe 's first budget did little more than continue the policy of Denis Healey 's Labour budget of 1976 . |
| 23 | The freedom is earned and justified by the poet 's acceptance of this responsibility , a responsibility more onerous than any incurred by the writer in regular meter . |
| 24 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 25 | This low-level representation reflected China 's anger over remarks to the Japanese Diet ( parliament ) on Feb. 18 by then Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita denying the Emperor 's responsibility for atrocities committed by the Japanese in China during the Second World War . |
| 26 | Fish and dolphins that live in extremely muddy water can not see because , although there is light , it is obstructed and scattered by the dirt in the water . |
| 27 | The beasts of the field , pedigree or otherwise , were included by the Bible in the plan of salvation . |
| 28 | This was forgotten by the draftsman in British Railways Board v Elgar House Ltd ( 1969 ) 209 EG 1313 , where it was nevertheless held that for the purposes of the rent calculation parts of the demised property occupied by the headtenant should be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 29 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 30 | Its economic importance is attested by the provision in the subsidy act for the assessment of income from customary land , conceivably in the light of knowledge gleaned from the preceding survey . |