Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [pos pn] [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 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 5 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 6 | He got them when he was run over by his father 's new Grand Am . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With the noise of the battle drowned out by his aircraft 's motor , ‘ it is a weird combination of stillness and havo … ’ . |
| 10 | It was what the doctors call a false pregnancy , probably brought on by her husband 's sudden death , feelings of guilt . |
| 11 | An Australian woman recently won substantial compensation from her employer for irreversible lung damage brought on by her colleagues ' cigarette smoke at work . |
| 12 | Spurred on by their Lordships ' initiative the Commons spent a whole day discussing television in November 1985 . |
| 13 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 14 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |