Example sentences of "[adj] by [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can guess , for instance , that an academic in the drama field , Richard Courtney , was embarrassed by her in the early days because she does not fit his Sladian view of what drama teaching is about . |
| 2 | Most firms remain unconvinced by anything except the perception of independence argument . |
| 3 | Irene had lived surrounded by the gales of hatred , but remained untouched by them behind the high wall that had protected her since childhood … |
| 4 | Many of those involved had reached the conclusion that the philanthropic provision of youth services was inadequate by itself for the task of tackling the economic , social , and what were coming to be regarded as educational problems concerning working-class adolescents . |
| 5 | By s14(3) a person 's knowledge includes knowledge which he might reasonably have been expected to acquire from facts observable and ascertainable by him or from facts ascertainable by him with the help of medical or other appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek . |
| 6 | But to contend , as does Mr. Wall , that the consideration of their interests can not be taken into account at all unless the criterion to be found in paragraph ( b ) of article 13 is satisfied is , in my judgment , unwarranted by anything in the language of the Convention and unwarranted in principle . |
| 7 | So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion . |
| 8 | Somebody was close by me on the hillside . |
| 9 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 10 | It is , nevertheless , interesting that Norris should say , in passing , of Nietzsche ; ‘ there are many competing versions of Nietzsche , none possessing any absolute claim to articulate the ‘ truth' ’ of his text , but all of them — and this is Derrida 's point — made possible by something in the logic , the syntax or the structural resources of his writing . ’ |
| 11 | The forms were simple , graceful , unembellished by anything save the intensity of light and movement trapped in the glass itself . |
| 12 | And hapless Edberg saw 32 flying by him in the final . |
| 13 | of the aggregate revenues received and receivable by it from the grant of the sub-licences . |
| 14 | A strange feeling of serenity and confidence was sweeping over her and all of a sudden she found that she was frightened by nobody in the world . |