Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radical translator is faced with the task of writing such a manual on whatever evidence he can glean ; roughly , on the evidence of sentences uttered or assented to by the ‘ natives ’ and the circumstances of those utterances and assents . |
| 2 | The due observance and fulfilment of the terms provisions conditions and endorsements of this Policy in so far as they relate to anything to be done or complied with by the Policyholder and the truth of the statements and answers in the said proposal shall be conditions precedent to any liability of the Corporation to make any payment under this Policy . |
| 3 | The due observance and fulfilment of the terms provisions conditions and endorsements of this Policy in so far as they relate to anything to be done or complied with by the Policyholder and the truth of the statements and answers in the said proposal shall be conditions precedent to any liability of the Corporation to make any payment under this Policy . |
| 4 | Though the refusal of one of the parties to a dispute to make an oath was admissible as evidence in British courts , these other ways of trying cases were generally ignored or disapproved of by the colonial authorities . |
| 5 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 6 | Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay . |
| 7 | Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay . |
| 8 | In practice that will only occur if there are difficulties in serving the defendant ( see , for example , Gurtner v Circuit [ 1968 ] 2 QB 587 , Howells v Jones ( 1975 ) 119 SJ 577 , Sisknys v Hanley ( 1982 ) The Times , 26 May ) or if there has been an express or implied agreement to defer service of the writ or the plaintiff 's delay in serving it or renewing it has been induced or contributed to by the defendant 's words or conduct ( Heaven v Road and Rail Wagons Ltd [ 1965 ] 2 QB 655 ) . |
| 9 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 10 | On May 14 a teacher and some 30 black pupils from a Brooklyn school defied the boycott by entering the shop , but were intimidated and spat upon by the pickets . |
| 11 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're being listened to and referred to by the Water Research Centre , by the Environment Council , by the Royal Yachting Association and by other local MPs . |
| 13 | For us an Act of Parliament duly passed by Lords and Commons and assented to by the King , is supreme , and we are bound to give effect to its terms … |
| 14 | The nature of the cleavages identified and capitalized upon by the parties reflects the structure of the society although if certain cleavages are ignored by parties ( thereby ‘ organizing out ’ certain biases ) the party system need not faithfully represent all the divisions within a society . |
| 15 | It is said that it would be pointless for the justices to make an order that there should be no contact when that order can be overridden and departed from by the local authority with the agreement of the parent . |
| 16 | When the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament emerged from the discussions that followed Priestley 's article , it was chaired by a Canon of St Paul 's , the gaunt non-conformist cleric John Collins , and presided over by the foremost sceptic and humanist of the day , Bertrand Russell . |
| 17 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
| 18 | The Republic of Maldives ( called the Maldive Islands until 1969 ) has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President and a 48-member Citizens ' Assembly ( Majilis ) , 40 of whose members are elected for five years and the remaining eight appointed by the President . |
| 19 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 20 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 21 | The Cabinet is appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 22 | It has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President . |
| 23 | The comments by Field and Verney concluded with a strong recommendation that every resource of television production should be lavished on programmes for children ‘ if they are to watch intelligently and develop into ready viewers for that ‘ better ’ Television being demanded by the critics ' and sought after by the industry itself . |
| 24 | This squirt of wheelspin which initiates the final turning phase is barely visible ; the turning is all over and done with by the time the speculator broadslides complete the rider 's acceleration out of the corner . |
| 25 | What 's more , they 're probably incompatible with one another , so connecting them in series ( one after the other ) is going to allow the noise from the first to be amplified and added to by the second . |
| 26 | First , the external conditions were extremely unfavourable , given the record trade deficit generated by the ‘ Barber boom ’ and added to by the subsequent massive rise in oil prices . |
| 27 | Storms had wrecked the Spanish fleet on the shores of West Ireland , and the refugees had been welcomed and cared for by the Irish people . |
| 28 | Some small but particularly beautiful areas of woods , cliffs and islands are preserved and cared for by the National Trust . |
| 29 | Along the road we were ably supported and cared for by the ubiquitous Ian Godwin ( no , do n't let him map read ! ) and the effervescent Liz Roberts ( in charge of silliness and peanut butter and banana sandwiches ) . |
| 30 | The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract . |