Example sentences of "by a [noun sg] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was represented by a guardian ad litem and her mother was also a party . |
| 2 | A minor may sue for wages , piece work or for work as a servant ( s 47 of the 1984 Act ) , but apart from this a person under disability may not bring or defend proceedings , or counter-claim , except if a plantiff by his next friend or if a defendant by a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 1(1) , ( 2 ) ) . |
| 3 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 4 | Challenge worked her way through an area strewn with salmon cages and creels and with some difficulty found her way through into the lee of the island , which was now illuminated by a coastguard auxiliary 's searchlight . |
| 5 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 6 | BUILDING contractor John Scott is being sued by a plumbing firm 's boss for the crash of her company . |
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| 8 | Bending to pick it up , Constance saw her father 's face framed by a farm worker 's legs . |
| 9 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 10 | So a revolution in music was catalysed by a record executive 's desire for his own personal sexual soundtrack . |
| 11 | ‘ No more tyrants and victims , no more the fevered alterations of that demon-star which sponsored the births of de Sade and von Sacher-Masoch ; but the hermaphrodite whole , opposites bound together in mitigating embrace by a silk worm 's thread … |