Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone came by the house with a loudhailer but I could n't hear it properly . |
| 2 | Pascoe said , ‘ Someone troubled by the past . ’ |
| 3 | To assist the class with their tasks : the teacher as the learner , someone taught by the class , an apprentice , a deckhand , a new recruit . |
| 4 | Something clanged by the back axle , a rock presumably , and then , with the back still slithering sideways and the rear left wheel beginning to race as it fell off into space , the vehicle gave a sort of shudder and we were out , clear of water and on a hard surface again . |
| 5 | In São Paulo , the city offering the widest selection of TV channels , only the one owned by the State Government , makes any attempt to produce serious programmes . |
| 6 | The next house was the one owned by the Nowaks . |
| 7 | One baulked by the House of Lords would have to accept that , but would almost certainly determine to exact a price at the next opportunity . |
| 8 | Something stirred by the window . |
| 9 | This match was not just a game , it was a landmark and to all intents and purposes one ignored by the BBC . |
| 10 | John Caird 's opulently staged direction of Pinero 's multi-layered drama makes much of the bones and sinews of this play about players , stressing the crisis which overtook the older , hammier generation of actors in the 1880s , one signalled by the presence of Tom Wrench ( Adam Kotz ) as scrutineer , bit-part actor and embryo playwright of the naturalistic new wave . |
| 11 | Something recognised by the kingpins of the television industry |
| 12 | A delivery note is sent along with the goods — this enables the retailer to check that the delivery he receives matches the one dispatched by the manufacturer . |
| 13 | LIFESPAN will display the issue identifier , despatch status ( Y or N ) and the Product identifier for a set of up to 20 Issues associated with the named Client , starting from the first alphabetically or from the one indicated by the Start issue id , and a message if more details are available for viewing . |
| 14 | What is crucial for our concerns here is that such a ‘ mentality ’ or ideology is constructed ; it is not something imposed by the form of literacy itself as though the ‘ technology of the intellect ’ , as Goody terms it , were determinate . |
| 15 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 16 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 17 | Later in the same month , the DES published its Green Paper , Higher Education in England outside the Universities : Policy , Funding and Management , in which it presented two alternative models for a national body : what it called Model A , which was closely modelled on the one advocated by the local authorities on 15 July , and Model B , which was the one favoured by the DES . |
| 18 | The first is probably the one copied by the BBC Sound Archive in 1935 ; at any rate , it comprises only the first three sentences . |
| 19 | Is n't one subsumed by the other ? |
| 20 | By 75 votes to 20 , with 40 abstentions , the assembly endorsed a document similar to the one vetoed by the US , Britain and France in the Security Council on Saturday . |
| 21 | I became a socialist there because while I did not agree with everything said by the Marxists I met and with whom I became friendly , they gave me a language for understanding the painful separations of class . |
| 22 | In each case the reformulation suggests a line of processing different from the one suggested by the original . |
| 23 | Not the building Johnson stayed in : he slept in a new fort built to replace the one destroyed by the Jacobites . |
| 24 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 25 | The beauty of that trail is that you have the thrill of walking beneath the railway viaduct and carrying on up alongside the Allt Chonoghlais into Coire a' Ghabhalach , the mirror eastern corrie of the one gained by the Bridge of Orchy route . |
| 26 | Nothing perpetrated by the wartime Japanese , African despots or vile South American dictatorships has been more appalling than the horrors visited upon each other by this region 's factions . |
| 27 | But this idea is not available to anybody convinced by the regress argument . |
| 28 | Everyone questioned by the police ( and Julia and Ian had been questioned twice ) knew the registration of Gray 's car . |
| 29 | PRAYERS were requested by Bishop Konstant for Tony Bland and everyone hurt by the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 30 | The charity has warned anyone approached by the imposter to contact police immediately . |