Example sentences of "[prep] we by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 2 | I am grateful for the Minister 's reply and I know that she will have been as horrified as the rest of us by the images and the conflict that was reported from Somalia last weekend . |
| 3 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 4 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 5 | Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
| 7 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |
| 8 | But you would n't have done it quite you would have thought about whether you did it , whereas the moment you 've been forced to do it because of the cuts that have been forced upon us by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 9 | Now this question will be answered in the wrong way if we forget the qualifications , forced upon us by the adoption of Wittgenstein 's notion of language-games , which permeate the implications of such talk about dumb animals . |
| 10 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 11 | The sonnets to the Friend , by contrast , elicit warmth in us by the warmth that they contain . |
| 12 | Those who think that ideas consist of images which are formed in us by the concourse of bodies … regard ideas as lifeless pictures on a board , and preoccupied thus with this misconception they do not see that an idea , insofar as it is an idea , involves affirmation or negation . |
| 13 | On a representative theory of perception , something 's looking white to us consists in our having sensations of white which are excited in us by the object . |
| 14 | The question of whether or not ‘ In the beginning … ’ is superstition is forced on us by the poem but left unanswered though it appears that to go back beyond Origen would be immensely difficult . |
| 15 | Can we please have our walking space back and not be restricted to ‘ pavement space ’ imposed on us by the stalls ? |
| 16 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 17 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 18 | MY WIFE and I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the heart-warming friendliness shown to us by the Liverpool citizens we met at the celebrations . |
| 19 | I dictate and Cats scribbles away and bashes out the replies on the word processor kindly loaned to us by the theatre . |
| 20 | Let us give thanks for the example of love and compassion shown to us by the life of Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 22 | Educational integration therefore becomes a wider concept than social integration since it involves , among other things , how we use the knowledge given to us by the act of socialisation . |
| 23 | Even our sonship , mediated to us by the Spirit , has this ambiguity about it . |
| 24 | Our full terms of reference and supplementary guidance given to us by the Secretary of State for Education and Science are contained in appendices 2 and 3 . |
| 25 | I began work this morning , together with my Secretary , Mr S Summerchild , and a clerical assistant , Mrs L Padmore , in the premises made available to us by the Government Commission . |
| 26 | They appear in the form of a pair of vermilion ‘ chops ’ on our family note-paper and on quite a number of original Chinese paintings inscribed to us by the artists . |
| 27 | Policemen immediately that that is given to us by the Home Office . |
| 28 | There 's still the statutory position with the occupational therapist of this department makes a recommendation to the er on the f on the proposals submitted to us by the district council but it 's purely a , a lowering of the mandatory limit , the discretionary limit remains the same and it remains to see how that will work in practice . |
| 29 | I mean , if it 's pointed out to us by the lord we we try |
| 30 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |