Example sentences of "[vb past] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 2 | Of the systems of proportional representation , the one favored by the Liberal Party and the Electoral Reform Society is the single transferable vote ( STV ) system . |
| 3 | By the early twentieth century , paleontologists were promoting a coherent model of evolution that differed significantly from that proposed by the early Darwinians . |
| 4 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 5 | The first of these men was Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , founder of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) , who initially established contact with the Comintern and whose model was in fact not dissimilar to that proposed by the Soviet theorists , although he differed greatly on questions of strategy and tactics . |
| 6 | Indeed the so-called ‘ Revolution Bill ’ , the Umsturzvorlage proposed by the German government in 1894 to ward off the threat of revolution , made criticism of the family as an institution punishable by drastic penalties . |
| 7 | There would be 12 judges ( six from the Czech Lands and six from Slovakia ) appointed by the President upon the proposal of the Federal Assembly Presidium , having been chosen from 24 proposed by the legislative bodies ( eight by the federal and eight by each national parliament ) . |
| 8 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 9 | Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here . |
| 10 | There was widespread international satisfaction at this evident improvement in the prospects for peaceful transition in Cambodia promised by the unexpected warmth of the new relationship . |
| 11 | But the following year the Ryder Cup men had to go to Muirfield Village — Jack 's patch — the course and club he created , to play a team captained by the Golden Bear himself . |
| 12 | In Scotland the NNDR is also ‘ linked to the Retail Price Index , but non-domestic rate revenue [ is ] retained by the local authority , rather than being pooled and redistributed ’ ( Blair 1988a:6 ) . |
| 13 | With these good intentions in mind , she entered by the low door , bending to avoid hitting her head on the lintel . |
| 14 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 15 | We also discussed the next great problem in international affairs , that posed by the Soviet Union , that victorious and self-confident power , with which our politicians , and above all Ernest Bevin , were already grappling . |
| 16 | Government civilians were reported to have urged that a forthcoming policy review of Japan 's defence programme should take account of and reflect " present conditions " , namely the dramatic improvement in East-West relations and a reduction of the military threat to Japan posed by the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | I knelt by the broken man . |
| 18 | At the first level training will be primarily on-the-job but assistants can secure a vocational qualification obtained over two years validated by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 19 | The first section shows that the authority which states and governments claim can not be based on the main argument for the justification of authority , i.e. that described by the normal justification thesis . |
| 20 | Firstly on the second page , number fifty eight , the Education Act in the middle of page one nine four four , refers to schools used and maintained by the local authority . |
| 21 | The cached information may be stored in a file referenced by the logical name LIFESPANCACHE and must be set up by the user . |
| 22 | entering the command ref directs the system to find the record referenced by the current record . |
| 23 | Note that all the files referenced by the FOREIGN module , and the header file itself , must be in the same account and in the same directory before they can be entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 24 | Then a policy directive in 1977 reinforced by the new government in 1979 , also insisted that InterCity should run commercially even if other parts of the passenger business were to receive grant-aid under the 1968 Act . |
| 25 | The men were now men remoulded by the modern family into affectionate husbands , and quite unlike the earlier contemptuous brutal males . ’ |
| 26 | It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector . |
| 27 | Najibullah 's offer was welcomed by the Pakistan government but spurned by the hardline mujaheddin groups . |
| 28 | As we also found earlier , it is far from easy to specify exactly what being an autonomous agent actually consists in , although we have a firm conception of a kind of ideal type — someone moved by the pure light of reason who ponders the evidence before them and makes considered , unconstrained decisions . |
| 29 | My Lords , I would rise to support very briefly er but er whole-heartedly the amendment moved by the Noble Lord , Lord . |
| 30 | Mistress Hopkins , no beauty in life with her scrawny face and wispy hair , had been brutally killed : her eyes popped out of their sockets , her swollen tongue was clenched between gapped yellow stumps whilst her skin was blue-black , the breath throttled by the scarlet garrotte cord still tied round her neck . |