Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 2 | In my opinion these financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Welsh Development Agency and the Group at 31 March 1990 and of the results and the source and application of funds of the Group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 and determinations made thereunder by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 3 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 4 | Birth-rates recovered somewhat by the end of the 1930s ( e.g. to 1.83 in 1939 ) . |
| 5 | Once again , this situation is not initiated or maintained only by the child . |
| 6 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 7 | Children presenting with acute respiratory infections were referred to the district hospital for chest radiography , and severely ill children were admitted to hospital , where they were treated by standard protocols , and monitored daily by the study physician . |
| 8 | if you want to increase the insulation provided naturally by the cladding , place glass fibre blanket or similar insulation in the space between the battens |
| 9 | Haavikko looked down , his mood changed utterly by the mention of Ebert . |
| 10 | In practice , I suspect that ‘ contracts ’ are arrived at as much by religious and ideological persuasion as by rational discourse , and maintained more by the threat of social ostracism than by legal restraint . |
| 11 | It placed the funding of higher education in the hands of two statutory bodies , a Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) ( replacing the University Grants Committee ) , and a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) to administer funds for higher education provided directly by the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 13 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 14 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 15 | The size of the fee was set and reviewed periodically by the government , for whom it was a useful source of leverage in the informal manoeuvrings typical of government — broadcaster relations . |
| 16 | The Government 's introduction of general practitioner fundholding has been a clear success , a fact confirmed in the independent academic research undertaken by Professor Glennerster of the London school of economics reported today by the King 's Fund . |
| 17 | She stopped abruptly by the gate to the Albion 's gardens , whirled on him , snapping her parasol shut again : ‘ Because I was annoyed with you that you could even think such a thing . |
| 18 | She stopped abruptly by the passenger door , staring at him in wide-eyed silence . |
| 19 | We all clustered silently by the door until a chilling moan from Mandeville and a despairing shout of ‘ Oh , no ! ’ sent us hurrying into the church . |
| 20 | The conventions of west-European international relations were now fully accepted in Russia , a process helped forward by the appearance there of translations of western works on international law and diplomacy . |
| 21 | He stopped again by the pavilion and , with his eyes fixed on Gabriel and a demented grin on his pock-marked face , rent the golden cloth from bottom to top . |
| 22 | In one typical case reported recently by the Union of Communication Workers , an operator was asked by the ambulance service to keep a woman talking until they arrived to prevent her falling into a coma . |
| 23 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 24 | The early industrialists were not ‘ insensitive to the appeal of the country : the beauty of Cromford and Millers Dale suffered little by the enterprise of Arkwright , and stretches of the Goyt and the Bollin owe something to Oldknow and the Gregs ’ . |
| 25 | Soon the cat appeared , and enchanted anew by the sight beneath the door of little legs running hither and thither , began expertly to grope . |
| 26 | Although not all newspapers were affected to the same degree , the trend towards more ‘ sensation ’ and more ‘ sport ’ suggested that the ‘ reader was expected to be intellectually more passive … attracted less by the prospect of greater wisdom than by that of ‘ Elevated ’ status , and he was now appealed to in a shrill capitalised format ’ . |
| 27 | Therefore , counter-indemnities relating to death or personal injury suffered by the indemnifier were void under s 2(1) , without the need to consider s 4 , and all counter-indemnities relating to other loss or damage suffered directly by the indemnifier were subject to the reasonableness test under s 2(2) , and/or s 4 if the indemnifier was a consumer . |
| 28 | Covent Garden , Drury Lane , and Her Majesty 's Theatres were independent of the Lord Chamberlain 's authority , to which other theatres were subject , deriving their licence to operate from letters patent granted directly by the sovereign . |
| 29 | They should learn when to use semi-colons and colons. ( ii ) Pupils should come to understand that at its most characteristic , speech is interactive , spontaneous and informal which means the topics of conversation emerge in an unplanned and unstructured way ; in contrast , writing typically needs a more tightly planned overall structure signalled both by the organisation of topics into paragraphs and by words and phrases such as meanwhile , in the same way , on the other hand . |
| 30 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |