Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] by the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have half a mind to defy their demands of space and economy , and to sleep on until awakened by the next pale arrival herself , expectant to abort and puzzled at my slumbering presence . |
| 2 | To cut the dole was , in Seely 's view , essential , but ‘ this tangle can not be unravelled by any one party , or even any two , because if opposed by the third they would lose the Election and the evil would continue . ’ |
| 3 | The attempt to legislate on what was essentially moral behaviour proved a disaster , though it lasted until reversed by the 21st Amendment in 1933 . |
| 4 | The stipulation pour autrui is already effective , but may become inoperative if rejected by the third party . |
| 5 | Should not the entropy change for the reaction therefore be positive-as required by the second law of thermodynamics ? |
| 6 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 7 | The metabolic clearance rate of G17 was 8 ( 6–93 ) before and 8 ( 6–76 ) ml/kg.min after treatment when calculated by the first method and 9 ( 6–74 ) and 8 ( 6–62 ) ml/kg.min respectively by the second method . |
| 8 | Anderson 's analysis of Preston 's immigration patterns , as revealed by the mid-nineteenth century census returns , shows that 70 per cent of the population were born outside the town . |
| 9 | The offences dealt with , however , have changed over the centuries , as shown by the seventeenth century records of the borough of West Looe . |
| 10 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 11 | Between , there is cricket in India as played by the 16th Light Infantry , there is English cricket , there is W.G. Grace , there is Ruskin Spear 's brooding painting of Fred Trueman , there is Seaton Carew in 1888 and Ryton in 1912 . |
| 12 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 13 | The match seemed as good as settled by the first evening . |
| 14 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 15 | As illustrated by the first patient , recovery from arsenical neuropathy is generally poor , even after treatment with chelating agents . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , the Maritime school accept that our forces should be deployed primarily to support the First and Second Pillars , but argue that they must also be given the strategic mobility , equipment , and training to continue Britain 's global role as required by the Third Pillar . |
| 17 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |