Example sentences of "[prep] and [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because it is always uncertain whether a new system of regulation can be smoothly established when the old one breaks down , the regulationist approach does not share world-system theories ' perspective of inexorable capitalist expansion in which all developments are seen as functional for and planned by capital as a whole . |
| 2 | At seven the news bulletin brought a report of a motorway collision which had claimed the lives of an entire family travelling north for Christmas , and of prison riots that had ignited in Bristol and Manchester , with inmates claiming that presents from loved ones had been tampered with and destroyed by prison officers . |
| 3 | Here then , amongst the Lugbara , we see a thoroughly moralistic creed , based upon and administered by ancestor spirits , and applied for and to the benefit of the village elders . |
| 4 | This scientism took as axiomatic that systematic and reasoned study , its methods reflected upon and sanctified by epistemology , could generate ‘ truth ’ . |
| 5 | In some localities market prices of residential property are directly linked to and affected by school catchment areas , where a school has a very good or very bad reputation . |
| 6 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 7 | What did workers understand by and mean by nationalization and what did they want from nationalization ? |