Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unavoidable ; I saw the story unfolding minute by minute at work . |
| 2 | The complete list is printed inside the cover of every certificate , and the following are samples only : rights of common , customary rights , public rights , right of sheepwalk , rights of way , rights of water , liability to repair highways by reason of tenure , liability to repair the chancel of any church , liability to repair embankments and sea or river walls , rights under local land charges , rights of fishing and sporting , manorial and seignorial rights of all descriptions ( until extinguished ) , leases for any term not exceeding 21 years granted at a rent without taking a fine , etc ( s70(1) ( a ) — ( k ) ) . |
| 3 | It 's doubtful whether these distinctions were ever clear , and certainly nowadays , it 's realised that pure and applied research goes side by side , within all research organisations . |
| 4 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 5 | Philip Coles , 37 , of Clackmannanshire , had pled guilty last month to conspiracy to obtain money by deception . |
| 6 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 7 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 8 | The deal includes guarantees by CGCE that it will settle matters with its sub-contractors and suppliers . |
| 9 | Under subsections 3(1) and ( 2 ) , it became a crime to procure women by threat or by false pretences to have sexual intercourse in any part of the world . |
| 10 | The action takes place by way of a simple op.amp comparator , IC5 , and transistor TR5 . |
| 11 | President Truman 's Democratic Administration existed side by side with a Congress in which there was a Republican majority . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ There has been an unacceptable increase in the crime figures year by year since this Conservative government came to office in 1979 . |
| 13 | But as you graph your annual giving year by year , remember that to give an accurate impression you will need to correct for inflation . |
| 14 | The extent of the depletion took scientists by surprise . |
| 15 | We would also ask you to observe the tradition of dinner on the terrace taking place by candlelight . |
| 16 | Army action to end strike by banana workers |
| 17 | The experiment faltered bit by bit . |
| 18 | The question caught Rosie by surprise . |
| 19 | A State may declare that a diplomatic officer , consular agent or commissioner may apply to the designated competent authority for ‘ appropriate ’ assistance to obtain evidence by compulsion . |
| 20 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 21 | These orders of marine creatures have evolved feeding techniques which rely upon their food coming to them , either by strong water movement or by farming microscopic algae in their tissues which can harness the radiant energy of the sun to manufacture nutrients by photosynthesis . |
| 22 | The sudden descent into abuse took McLeish by surprise and he realized he must have shown it , because the girl literally got a grip on herself , folding her arms and hunching over the table . |
| 23 | The question took Alec by surprise . |
| 24 | The question took Celia by surprise . |
| 25 | Instead , the money supply might contract over a period of time as the banking sector adjusts stage by stage to successive sales of gilt-edged securities . |
| 26 | Any journalist , confronted with a legal opinion that a story , or the conduct necessary to obtain it , might be against the law , should first establish whether that law permits trial by jury . |
| 27 | The resolution on Bosnia-Hercegovina condemned the Serbian leadership in Belgrade and called on the UN Security Council to co-ordinate action by land , sea and air to restore international peace . |
| 28 | Once , architecture gained expression by man trying to interpret nature . |
| 29 | A doctor 's primary duty to provide his patients with personal treatment limits his right to provide treatment by arrangement with a deputising service . |
| 30 | In a document of 811 Wulfred , archbishop of Canterbury , specifically declares that Offa had cancelled one of Ecgberht 's charters on the grounds that Ecgberht had no right to grant land by charter in perpetuity ( CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |