Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | An example of this occurred in early February when Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels , agreed that the support given to Iraq by the PLO should disqualify it from further high-level contacts . |
| 2 | There is the consistent , but unexplained , emphasis placed by Gregory on support given to Gundovald by Childebert 's followers . |
| 3 | He did not have mother 's shrewdness , nor her education , and lacked the family support given to mother by her parents . |
| 4 | Liability insurance requirements vary considerably from country to country , as does the responsibility placed on organisations by local law . |
| 5 | Slowly his hold slackened and he rose to his feet , his fine frilled shirt ripped to pieces by — her long , slender fingers , his expensive riding habit covered in mud . |
| 6 | ‘ And have his decision delayed for weeks by Agnes Algar 's mob screaming Rape because we 're trespassing on their terri-tory ? |
| 7 | It was the sort of success that saw Talk Talk having insult added to injury by being nominated at the BRITS Awards for Best Band Of 1990 . |
| 8 | The two-volume Doves Press edition of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained with capitals by Edward Johnston and Graily Hewitt was also unsold , against an estimate of £300-£400 . |
| 9 | Thus the guidance given to governors by DES Circular 11/87 that , although it is expected that at least some sex education would be provided by the school , they have freedom to decide whether or not sex education should be offered should now be revised . |
| 10 | Contrast the more restricted remedy given to investors by section 5 . |
| 11 | Competition of the specific complex formed on SSB by both the double stranded WT and complementary SSA in both cases is the result of the complementary strand binding to the SSB oligonucleotide forming a double stranded oligonucleotide for which the protein has little or no affinity . |
| 12 | There is a precedent for this discovery in a similar result reported in February by Mulchaey et al . |
| 13 | We aim to deliver first class mail as soon as possible , with most mail targeted for delivery by the next working day . |
| 14 | More like an actress lifted to greatness by pure desperation . |
| 15 | The fragility of much of the industry attracted to Derry by government aid was shown by the Birmingham Sound Reproducers factory which was opened in the summer of 1967 , employing 1,800 of the abundant supply of cheap young labour ; by January 1968 it had closed down . |
| 16 | ‘ We beat off intense competition to win and one of the reasons we did was because of the high level of investment made in equipment by NOS . ’ |
| 17 | Among the pictures are the only known independent self-portrait of the artist , the wonderful Suida-Manning ‘ Repentant Magdalene ’ , on loan to the Metropolitan in the mid 1970s and not publicly seen since , the ‘ John the Baptist visited in prison by Salome ’ , the prime version of a composition of which a later replica by the artist is in the collection of Sir Denis Mahon ( exhibited in London last year ) , and the master 's only known still-life , a ‘ Memento Mori ’ , from Feigen 's private collection . |
| 18 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 19 | It may be that a study commissioned from contractors by the British National Space Centre will provide useful evidence on the cash value of remote sensing ; it is particularly timely in view of the appointment of Professor Pearce ( see above ) as the adviser to the UK Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 20 | In following years France had indeed benefited from the financial bonanza unleashed in Iran by the oil price rise . |
| 21 | But the original tenant will also be bound to pay the rent agreed upon review by an assignee ( Centrovincial Estate plc v Bulk Storage Ltd ( 1983 ) 268 EG 59 ) and will be bound by any variation of the lease agreed between the landlord and the assignee ( Selous Street Properties Ltd v Oronel Fabrics Ltd ( 1984 ) 270 EG 643 , 743 ) . |
| 22 | A torpedo boat used for years by the Soviet military authorities as a " dustbin " for nuclear waste has been secretly towed from Lake Ladoga through the Baltic and along the Norwegian coast to Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic . |
| 23 | A simple model of human face recognition based on work by the grant holders and other British groups is being employed as a framework within which to design and interpret experiments . |
| 24 | I had a sudden mental picture of a struggling and reluctant group of climbers being herded into a minibus bound for Anglesey by Dunne , Littlejohn et al . |
| 25 | It was a spatial division of labour based on specialization by sector : engineering goods and cars in the West Midlands ; textiles , clothing and engineering in the North West ; coal and steel in the central lowlands of Scotland and the valleys of South Wales , and so on . |
| 26 | Jacob 's taking advantage of his father 's blindness and frailty , and his deceiving him at one of the most solemn moments of his life , are reminiscent of the shame and humiliation brought to Noah by his son Ham . |
| 27 | The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful . |
| 28 | Bottom right : Spacial illusion derived from work by Ames . |
| 29 | A prisoner who refused to join in a boycott of prison food had his cell set on fire by fellow inmates . |
| 30 | This response is not directly equated with the OR or any component of it ; rather it is an hypothetical construct evidenced in behaviour by its effect on the rate of conditioning — the associability of a stimulus is determined by the magnitude of the attentional response it evokes . |