Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 2 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 3 | The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management . |
| 4 | Now it seems to me that er Yeltsin 's that kind of Russian patriot and he 's shown it by concluding treaties as equal partners with Ukraine , with the Baltic Republics and so on er in which he said that er Russia is no longer going to interfere in their internal affairs , so they they are equal partners in these treaties . |
| 5 | On Aug. 11 McCarthy delivered to Pérez de Cuéllar the letter given him by Islamic Jihad . |
| 6 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 7 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 8 | It was Poland who had initiated them by repeated acts of racial and territorial aggression . |