Example sentences of "by [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was followed by hateful orders to hand over 2,200 anti-communist Yugoslavs to imprisonment or death at Tito 's hands . |
| 2 | ‘ I was offered many nasty films made by catch-penny producers to show off girls in the nude , ’ he said , ‘ but I would n't accept . ’ |
| 3 | ITV chiefs are cashing in on a sick US craze by inviting viewers to send in video film of real-life horrors . |
| 4 | Finally , there 's Sandra After Dark , a cable show that offers a twist on the chat format by inviting guests to drop by , take a few drinks from the topless waitresses , and talk casually , with the kind of natural interruptions that occur at a party . |
| 5 | For cooling and ventilating , 12 torpedo ventilators were placed in the roof to extract the air , and on either side of the gangways , some 5ft from the floor level , were louvred ventilators , protected by perforated zinc to keep out the dust . |
| 6 | Conflict of Laws — Jurisdiction — Restitution — Banks conducting speculative financial transactions on behalf of local authorities — Transactions declared void ab initio — Banks ' claims for restitution against Scottish authority brought in England — Motion by Scottish authority to strike out for want of jurisdiction — Whether special jurisdiction in English court — Whether matter ‘ relating to a contract ’ — Whether ‘ relating to tort ’ — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 ( c. 27 ) , Sch . |
| 7 | In each class at least four methods were used by different pupils to work out the answer to this item . |
| 8 | In Tokyo , MITI , the Japanese ministry for trade and industry , indicated that it would not approve attempts by Japanese manufacturers to make up for shortfalls in US exports to Europe . |
| 9 | Social events included a Ball held in the Management Centre in November , a Sports Fun Day in May and events organised by individual departments to welcome back former staff and students . |
| 10 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |
| 11 | Fifteen of them will travel to the region which has been devastated by civil war to bring back its most heart rendering victims … the children . |
| 12 | The benefits are supplemented by the group therapy effect of training with a number of other similarly placed patients , and is also helped by encouraging spouses to join in . |
| 13 | Some features of public policy may add to this informal exclusion and outcast status by encouraging people to opt out completely even from formal status as a citizen , thus losing all civic rights . |
| 14 | While most people strongly condemn the drugs traffickers , critics point to the recent drive by international markets to drive down the price of coffee , Colombia 's main export — and to the continuing drain of resources into debt payments to Western banks — as evidence that the international community is not willing to make the kind of sacrifices needed to confront the social and economic roots of Latin America 's drug problem . |
| 15 | Many libraries offer study places , separated by physical dividers to cut down visual distractions , or , better still , carrels ( partly-enclosed study cells ) that cut out both visual and aural distractions . |
| 16 | There is also evidence that bureaucratic advancement may be obtained by successful efforts to cut back on departmental expenditure . |
| 17 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |
| 18 | One of the worst incidents involved the shooting on March 11 of 19 Hindu engineers at a textile factory in Harkishanpura which had defied orders by Sikh militants to close down during the state elections in February [ see p. 38762 ] . |
| 19 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 20 | Many Third World states regarded it as a blatantly unbalanced proposal since it did not include an offer by Soviet leaders to close down their military and naval facilities in South Yemen and Ethiopia . |
| 21 | AFTER building up its interests with the acquisition of Ultramar , the independent oil group , LASMO , is being forced by financial circumstances to sell off some of its North Sea holdings . |
| 22 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 23 | More striking is evidence of reluctance by local groups to launch out into direct engagement with the public in open meetings . |
| 24 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |