Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] that [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( As an aside , one wonders if Mr Harrod would have written in similar terms about the work of the reference librarian or any other senior post usually occupied in that period by a man . ) |
| 2 | It therefore offers an opportunity to kill all rabbits confined within that area by the full variety of methods available . |
| 3 | However , his elder brother was to die without issue , predeceasing his parents , so Bishop Sir Jonathon Trelawney , Bt. was to be squire of Trelawne , as well as Bishop of Bristol , being nominated to that See by James II as reward for loyalty during the Monmouth Rebellion . |
| 4 | Has the developer responded to that letter by the way ? |
| 5 | She knew , before the talkative nurse had told her so , that it would have been squeezed to that shape by her own body giving birth . |
| 6 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 7 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 8 | A section of runway had been cordoned off that afternoon by the remaining twenty policemen who had strict orders not to allow anyone through without an official pass . |
| 9 | But the apparent willingness of the House of Lords to expedite the delivery of their judgment coupled with the highly eccentric use made of that judgment by the NIRC to release the five dockers was so convenient for the government of the day that it aroused the strong suspicion of judicial compliance with political expediency . |
| 10 | Is not my right hon. Friend absolutely astonished at the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to condemn the absurd criticisms made of that investment by the Trades Union Congress ? |
| 11 | Miss T. was never accepted into that faith by baptism or otherwise and therefore , as the sect has asserted in a statement to the press , ‘ T. is not and never has been one of Jehovah 's Witnesses . ’ |
| 12 | It is the first such appeal , and it is made under the provisions of section 19A of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , which section was incorporated into that Act by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 13 | Given the vast number of nationalities represented by the Soviet Russian empire , and the long-smouldering resentments of national minorities incorporated into that empire by force , this is hardly surprising . |
| 14 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 15 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 16 | This Government will ensure that discriminatory taxes are not imposed on that industry by our friends in Europe , because it is a vital British interest . |
| 17 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 18 | The efforts made at that time by Sartre , Camus , Merleau-Ponty et alia to rehabilitate Nizan achieved no more than to illustrate the impossibility of reasoned dialogue with the French communist party at moments of extreme ideological polarisation . |
| 19 | Makassar , still barely visited at that time by foreigners , was an eye-opener . |
| 20 | Imagine that a child has expressed some meaning with an innovative term , a , and that this meaning is identical to the one expressed by term b , the term conventionally used for that meaning by adults — e.g. , plant-man versus gardener . |
| 21 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 22 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 23 | Erm and then any domestic policy which affects the outside , so that 's a projection of domestic interests erm into the outside world , so I 'll show you what I 've written down and it 's influenced by what you 've got in that book by Clarke , I 'm afraid it falls off the end a bit , foreign policy is a government activity concerned with relations between the state and other actors in the international arena , that should be . |
| 24 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |
| 25 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 26 | Normally , Parliament will be dissolved by the monarch as and when advice to do so is conveyed to that effect by the Prime Minister ; and invariably , the issuing by the monarch of a proclamation dissolving Parliament is accompanied by the issuing of another proclamation summoning the next one . |
| 27 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 28 | It was a bit small for the wooden supports at the top of the cabinet but the totter got around that problem by nailing a couple of slats of wood on to the supports to act as a base . |
| 29 | In a Cabinet reshuffle on April 13 , 1989 , Biya created a Ministry of Tourism , headed by Benjamin Itoe , hitherto the Justice Minister , who was replaced in that post by Adolphe Moudiki . |
| 30 | Nezzar , who had been appointed armed forces Chief of Staff in November 1988 following the previous month 's disturbances [ see p. 36506 ] , was replaced in that post by Brig. |