Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 2 | First of all , it seems that the housewife 's resentment of her long working hours is located by her in the context of a comparison between her own and her husband 's situation . |
| 3 | The rise in the share of fixed investment , from 19 per cent of GDP in 1955 to 33 per cent in 1961 , was paralleled by one in the share of ( pre-tax ) gross profit incomes , up from 31 to 39 per cent . |
| 4 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 5 | Whatever money 's left over that 's not been committed by you , if they find that they 've got fifteen hundred say , that 's not been committed by you at the end of the financial year , that will automatically go into deposit |
| 6 | He will be long remembered , valued and respected by me for the development of a movement which firmly established " People 's Art " as part of the expectation of education for each person and especially for children . |
| 7 | The deaths of casuals or sudden or accidental deaths occurring among the inmates had to be reported by him to the Minister within twenty-four hours , and he had ‘ forthwith ’ to inform the master of every case of serious or dangerous illness in the institution . |
| 8 | Apparently she then picked herself up and in fact ran from the scene but Mrs did n't stop and did n't make enquiries as to who the girl was and neither was the matter reported by her to the police in due course . |
| 9 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 10 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 11 | They may be issued or modified by anyone with the requisite permission ( see Section 6 of this manual ) , who also has the appropriate access rights . |
| 12 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 13 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 14 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 15 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 16 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 17 | Some matters , such as boundaries , will need to be resolved by him with the vendor 's solicitors . |
| 18 | This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages . |
| 19 | ‘ According to present arrangements , he will not be considered by anyone outside the prison service or the Home Office until 1991 . |
| 20 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 21 | The methods used by Walpole to derive the above bounds were later applied by him to the case of transversely isotropic inclusions in a homogeneous matrix . |
| 22 | ‘ All moneys received by the receiver shall be applied by him in the following order of priority ; ( 1 ) In satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the appointment of the receiver and the exercise of any of his powers and all outgoings paid by him and his remuneration . |
| 23 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 24 | Have a look at that , I mean , it would have been better if Jemma was here , because I do n't want to criticise , I mean , I used Jemma 's because it was actually probably the best one that was done by anyone in the group . |
| 25 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 26 | As in the case of the banks , the assets of these institutions represent paper claims against money which has been lent by them to the public sector , to industry and to persons . |
| 27 | The symbol is the one selected by you in the configuration file as ‘ USERACCESSLOGICAL ’ . |
| 28 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 29 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 30 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |