Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |
| 2 | Wood claimed that ‘ if one follows the film 's narrative carefully , one finds that all the acts of violence perpetrated by the hero are logically motivated — he is forced into them step by step from the moment he determines to earn and preserve his self-respect . |
| 3 | He spoke of high levels of crime , and of violence perpetrated by the security forces against peaceful demonstrations , but also called for an end to " mindless violence " between township factions . |
| 4 | It could be argued that the false views of humanity perpetrated by the Enlightenment were partly offset by Methodism and the growth of pietism in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | That subject to the approval of the Board of Inland Revenue , the Directors be and are hereby authorised to amend the Rules of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme into the form presented to this meeting and for the purpose of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That the Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 , the provisions of which are summarised in the Appendix to the letter to members of the Company dated 16th June 1993 , to be constituted by the Rules produced in draft to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof , be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient for implementing and giving effect to the same including making such amendments to the Rules as may be necessary to gain the approval of the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 7 | These gentle domestic works have much in common with paintings by Winifred Nicholson , Christopher Wood and Frances Hodgkins , through which runs the thread of nature mediated by the imagination . |
| 8 | What is wrong , what is wrong with increasing the levels of education in our schools up to the quality and level of education offered by the C T C ? |
| 9 | Galilee , the big tree-fringed pond by the pit where his father worked , a stretch of water ruffled by the wind when he first saw it . |
| 10 | The teacher must also be prepared to follow up lines of enquiry started by the pupils . |
| 11 | Failure to provide such opportunities does cause dogs to become more excitable and aggressive and this in turn reduces the level of control experienced by the handler . |
| 12 | Chip papers strewed the pavement and a buckled can of Sprite lay by the back wheel of the doctor 's Sierra . |
| 13 | The only oddities were the ( apparently quite normal ) clouds of smoke exuded by the Marbore IIs on shut-down and the speed with which the fuel bowser zoomed around the corner to refill our tanks . |
| 14 | ‘ However , I can fully appreciate the level of anger felt by the profession over these moves . ’ |
| 15 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 16 | What I think the public did not appreciate and I do not think would have appreciated clearly from the consultation leaflet , was quite how big a difference there was between the level of relief afforded by the inner relief roads and the outer relief roads , and in that context , I think that to say that the outer relief roads afford relief of between twenty and thirty percent is a little misleading in two respects . |
| 17 | However again it is easy to overestimate the cost of such research : if a reading of Hansard shows that there is nothing of significance said by the minister in relation to the clause in question , further research will become pointless . |
| 18 | Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ it is easy to overestimate the cost of such research : if a reading of Hansard shows that there is nothing of significance said by the minister in relation to the clause in question , further research will become pointless ’ . |
| 19 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 20 | But there is a body of information held by the county council erm on er journey to work movements in the Greater York area collected on erm on going basis largely by consultants , erm shared by the county council er and the City council . |
| 21 | A state of emergency decreed by the HCS on Feb. 9 gave the Ministry of the Interior the power to designate " areas for the organized residence of non-residents " and to detain any adult " whose activity is clearly found to be constituting a danger to public order and security , or to the good running of public services " . |
| 22 | The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today . |
| 23 | Moreover , it is clear that a verdict of death aggravated by the lack of care may be a ‘ free-standing ’ verdict . |
| 24 | Hence measures the amount of stored energy and , sometimes called the imaginary part , is actually a real quantity measuring the amount of energy dissipated by the material . |
| 25 | Your business plans could be severely jeopardised if you become embroiled in litigation started by the company that you used to work for . |
| 26 | The extent of judicial loyalty to statute enjoined by the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty therefore depends on the correct interpretation of the legal principle alone . |
| 27 | Certainly the minimum of one-and-a-half days per month envisaged by the Home Office as being all that will be required , it seems to me to be very wide of the mark . |
| 28 | More than 1m Germans , in both parts of the country , have claims on property expropriated by the communists . |