Example sentences of "[adv prt] by her [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of the Environment has announced that in future industrial companies will routinely monitor their own effluent discharges for toxic chemicals under guidelines laid down by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) . |
| 2 | Her choice of occupation , she realised , had perhaps been fore-ordained , written into the scheme of things like some genetic prescription , laid down by her mother 's inclinations . |
| 3 | But the play , because it wants its bread buttered on both sides , keeps its options open until the end on the issue of whether she is genuinely taken in by her husband 's lie or whether her insistence that the girl stay the weekend , her broody concern for the future of the fictitious baby , and marriage-broking on behalf of Julie are just ways of stoking up Jacques 's embarrassment . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I give the House a full assurance that , in the event of the introduction of executive detention , it would be carried out by Her Majesty 's Government in line with legislation passed by this House . ’ |
| 5 | I give him and the whole House a full assurance that in the event of the introduction of executive detention , it would be carried out by Her Majesty 's Government in line with legislation passed by this House and retained by this Government on the statute book . |
| 6 | It was what the doctors call a false pregnancy , probably brought on by her husband 's sudden death , feelings of guilt . |
| 7 | An Australian woman recently won substantial compensation from her employer for irreversible lung damage brought on by her colleagues ' cigarette smoke at work . |