Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 2 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 3 | Is the environmental assessment to which my hon. Friend referred the same one as that referred to by the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) who I understood to mean the King 's Cross project , while my hon. Friend was referring to the high-speed link ? |
| 4 | The Central Junta has a bad reputation ; a clumsy body of thirty-five presided over by the aged Floridablanca , President of the Junta of Murcia , its pretensions as a sovereign body with the title ‘ Majesty ’ were slightly ridiculous . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 11 | Their wages are held down as much by non-union agreements insisted upon by the Asian and American employers as by progressive devaluation . |
| 12 | And they suddenly began to laugh , the joke toppling over them like a wave , until they wept tears of laughter , stared at by the loud , powdered woman , and by the waitresses newly attired . |
| 13 | As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century , where symbols would stand for things and not words , engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study . |
| 14 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 15 | If this is the kind of filtering we require then we must develop an architecture which allows such changes of activity to be constantly monitored and responded to by the higher levels . |
| 16 | With regard to the foundation on which his advocacy of the primacy was based , it can be summed up by saying that he thought it was an integral part of the rights of the church committed to his care , testified to by the living members of the community and the tradition which they inherited . |
| 17 | The LIFESPAN configuration file currently being used on the system should be the one pointed to by the logical LIFESPANCONFIGURATION . |
| 18 | This sets up Charge Code 0001 as the directory pointed to by the system-wide logical name LSTRAIN_CC0001 , and all material whose name is reserved under that Charge Code will reside in that directory for it 's life cycle . |