Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your relationship is certainly not dominated by the man in your life ; you feel very positive about your sexuality , have no problems with leading the way in the bedroom and are well able to cope with any indiscretions in your marriage . |
| 2 | The period between May 1989 and February 1990 was dominated by the death in early June 1989 of the spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [ see pp. 36724-25 ] , and the struggle between " radical " and " pragmatist " factions within the Islamic regime and in the Majlis ( Parliament ) to establish their leadership in the post-Khomeini era . |
| 3 | A key issue is the extent to which the money market continues to be dominated by the markets in which the banks play a role either as intermediary or guarantor . |
| 4 | ‘ It should be recorded that whatever her failings disclosed by the evidence in this trial , she deserves to be remembered as a vivacious , caring and decent young woman . ’ |
| 5 | The Prai seat , won by the DAP in the 1990 elections , was taken by the Malaysian Indian Congress , a BN component . |
| 6 | Eventually he played the 4 and after I played the 7 from dummy , the trick was won by the King in the East seat . |
| 7 | No real concession should be won by the buyer in moving away from an insultingly low offer . |
| 8 | This was won by the Jack in the West seat and another Heart was returned . |
| 9 | At regular intervals each year thousands of worshippers flock to Naples Cathedral to witness the ‘ miracle ’ of the liquefaction of a small phial of blood purportedly from Saint Januarius , martyred by the Romans in 305 . |
| 10 | Berwick was attacked by the Scots in 1312 , and regained in 1318 ; besieged by Edward II in 1319 ; taken by the English in 1333 ; burned by James Douglas in 1405 ; ceded to Scotland in 1461 and returned to England in 1482 — where it remains , wrongly in my opinion , to this day . |
| 11 | ‘ Any picture America had of its women being shy , gentle creatures living sheltered lives , untainted by the world , is shattered by the facts in the report , ’ commented one newspaper typically . |
| 12 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 13 | True , in formal terms the identity of the employer has not changed , but in the organisational terms stressed by the Court in Rask and in terms of the sorts of objections to the new controllers that the employees in Katsikas had in mind , the formal answer goes very little distance to meet the substance of their points . |
| 14 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
| 15 | Under the new law , liability is further particularised by the expression in question , so that it must be shown that the conduct was used towards another . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing much else , really , as you can see from what I told the Brigadier — except that , whatever 's happened , I 've got nothing to do with it — I expect she was attracted by the light in my window if she was lost . ’ |
| 17 | The issue compiles papers that were presented by women from the United Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches at a seminar on women in ministry which was organised by the Institute in April 1991 . |
| 18 | The booklet , including the charter , is based on concerns expressed by transport union members in aviation at a conference organised by the TGWU in September . |
| 19 | Organised by the Women in Arts project at the Arts Council , this symposium will bring together women in the arts , to reclaim the past , identify the present and plan the future . |
| 20 | Organised by The Artist in association with the international Centre for Wildlife Art in Gloucestershire , the last deadline for submitting slides or photographs of work is March 31 . |
| 21 | Langbaurgh School , in Sulby Avenue , has been chosen to take part in the BBC Newsround Election , the world 's biggest ever children 's election organised by the BBC in association with the Hansard Society and supported by a national newspaper . |
| 22 | The selected schools were taking part in the world 's biggest children 's election organised by the BBC in association with the Hansard Society . |
| 23 | Among the 50 or so booksellers and publishers attending a seminar on the new Single Market rules organised by the Börsenverein in Frankfurt in December the mood was described as ‘ agitated and despairing ’ . |
| 24 | Published in cooperation with the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the issue is based on research and articles presented at a seminar on ‘ Reporting the Gulf War ’ which was organised by the IAMCR in Istanbul , Turkey , last June . |
| 25 | Summary : This fits into a series of initiatives which have been organised by the Islamologists in Paris . |
| 26 | It is the work of a gaggle of United Nations committees and was initially prepared as background reading for delegates attending last summer 's mammoth Unispace conference organised by the UN in Vienna . |
| 27 | It was during World War II that she was to face her greatest challenge when Sark , with the other Channel Islands , was occupied by the Germans in July 1940 . |
| 28 | It is now known that back in the ice age , glacial action had created a depression in the earth 's surface , in the area occupied by the field in which the seam was to outcrop . |
| 29 | The town was occupied by the Austrians in 1548 , and besieged by the Swedes in 1633 during the Thirty Years War . |
| 30 | Sarawak was occupied by the Japanese in 1941 , and the raja , in Australia at the time , was prevented from returning . |