Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed a suspended sentence received by a man convicted of indecent assault and incest with his 15-year-old daughter , despite submissions by the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , QC , that the sentence was too lenient . |
| 2 | A survey was undertaken of all referrals for compulsory admission received by a city mental health centre over a one year period . |
| 3 | The 29-year-old midfielder elected to have the case heard by a Crown Court when he appeared before magistrates at Dunstable , Beds , yesterday . |
| 4 | Lacuna stood straight and trembling , like a statue shaken by an earth tremor . |
| 5 | WHITNEY Houston was the weapon in a war of noise waged by a Teesside woman against her neighbour , a court has heard . |
| 6 | Mention is also made of a small attached building heated by a hypocaust at the south-west corner , suggested as a possible priest 's house , and this may account for the so-called ‘ hypocaust ’ tiles found on the site , presumably box-flues . |
| 7 | Although in the Iliad the word dikē denotes a judgement given by a judge or an assertion by a party to a dispute of his rights , in the Odyssey it signifies ‘ right ’ or ‘ custom ’ . |
| 8 | Project manager , Rob Bolt said : ‘ This is the first major rebuilding contract undertaken by a HAT and is a very different market for us , as construction managers . ’ |
| 9 | In those circumstances , money received by a firm must be paid into an on-exchange margined transaction bank account . |
| 10 | In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients . |
| 11 | The fall in export share was in substantial part explained by a fall in the UK share of world output of manufactured goods . |
| 12 | An award winning scientist paralysed by a wasting disease may be forced to give up his research … because he ca n't afford to pay for the round-the-clock nursing he needs . |
| 13 | A classic 19th-Century building surrounded by a golf course . |
| 14 | She walked on and came to a one-story building surrounded by a cordon of wire fencing . |
| 15 | Some fifty yards away was a white-washed building surrounded by a stretch of asphalt ; the village school , I was to discover , where on alternate Sundays the minister from Tobermory came over to hold a service . |
| 16 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 17 | Through the field was a footpath that led via another similar gate to the next field dominated by a line of magnificent elms which were uprooted during the great storm of 1930 . |
| 18 | It could n't have been very nice for her , thought Karelius , seeing her sister substituted by a woman who had obtained cheap success by such a blatant display of sexuality . |
| 19 | For example , the equation of motion of a mass constrained by a spring and dashpot is , in the well-known standard form , unc Here we shall consider unc as fixed and unc as a variable ( in practice , a variable spring stiffness ) and for convenience we shall write unc for |
| 20 | Defries stood up , the pain in her chest overwhelmed by a feeling that she recognized as panic . |
| 21 | Metropolitan clusters were clearly in evidence with their own internal dynamics of change dominated by a trend to loosen and shed population from the core to the periphery . |
| 22 | In Book 6 of the Iliad , we are told of an embroidered robe carried by a procession of old women to the Trojan Athena . |
| 23 | She lived all by herself in a log cabin surrounded by a garden in which she grew vegetables . |
| 24 | An example of this can be seen in a story reported by a worker in Corby , |
| 25 | ( note panel in cock pit canopy smashed by a bullet . ) |
| 26 | Finally , clause 56 states : ’ Where an offence under this Part committed by a body corporate is committed with the consent or connivance of , or is attributable to any neglect on the part of , a director , manager , secretary or other similar officer of the body , or a person purporting to act in such a capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A horse frightened by a lion ’ is one of seventeen versions of the subject and is estimated at £100–150,000 ( $180–270,000 ) . |
| 28 | The report also drew attention to a recent interview given by a Vice-President , Seyed Ataollah Mohajerani , to the Iranian news agency IRNA in which he had said " because the enemy has nuclear facilities , the Moslem states too should be equipped with the same capacity " . |
| 29 | In this test , which will not be described in full , quantification of the light received by a sample is achieved by means of standardised strips of wool cloth dyed with different dyes which differ in their fastness to light . |
| 30 | The rape of virgins is a crime imputed by a woman to the man by whom she says she has been forcibly ravished against the king 's peace . |