Example sentences of "and [vb -s] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 2 | In 1860 , the last bishop to wear his wig to the House of Lords died , and his successor as Bishop of Rochester , Dr Joseph Wigram , sharply criticised the wearing of beards and moustaches by the clergy . |
| 3 | On the same day a Shop Window 92 Shore Event will take place in front of Middlesbrough Civic Centre , including a march and displays by the Royal Marine Band of the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | It had n't lost one , there was no eye socket on one side of its head , so after the photos and the corny jokes about ’ one eye and goes by the name of lucky ’ back into the water and off she swam . |
| 5 | He takes the mugs to the side of the bed and sits by the feet of his lover . |
| 6 | And she gets up in the night and sits by the telephone in the hall in the dark . |
| 7 | It 's a funny thing but every now and again she slips through here into the lounge and sits by the fire for a few minutes . |
| 8 | When one drops out and sits by the fire , another member comes along and |
| 9 | Sunderland have a better goal difference than third-bottom Oxford United , who are three points behind , and only a catastrophic series of results in their last three matches and upsets by the other teams below them , would produce a nightmare eve-of-Wembley relegation scenario . |
| 10 | But unless quality and productivity can be improved in leaps and bounds by the early 1990s , then Dagenham is unlikely to have a future as a car production plant . |
| 11 | turns round to you half way through the job and says by the way you must do this . |
| 12 | To assist progress , will my hon. Friend and the EC consider telling Mr. Shamir that they will take economic action unless Israel stops its illegal settlement programme in the occupied territories and abides by the Geneva convention , which is being systematically broken ? |
| 13 | And that led to a day of fury and counter-claims by the Pakistan team bosses who insisted : ‘ We are not cheats and we intend spending our last rupee proving so . ’ |
| 14 | They were made into medicines , perfumes and unguents by the Egyptian priests and priestesses who became so renowned for their skills that sages and physicians from all over the ancient world came to Egypt to study medicine and the Mysteries . |
| 15 | These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature . |
| 16 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 17 | The disenchantment with nationalised industries and moves by the Conservative government towards denationalisation , or ‘ privatisation ’ , must be seen in this context . |
| 18 | He enters upstage , makes a small arc and leaves by the same side , a few feet downstage . |
| 19 | Among the next few months ' highlights are Borderline 's production of Dario Fo 's Mistero Buffo at the King 's Theatre with that man Robbie Coltrane again ( Feb ) ; The Art of Print , a survey of European Print Masters at the Hunterian Art Gallery ( Jan-Apr ) ; a new production of Pirandello 's Enrico Four at the Citizens Theatre ( Feb ) ; Steven Campbell 's first one-man show in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre ( Mar ) and Freaks by the Companie Genevieve de Kermabon at Tramway ( Mar ) . |
| 20 | The greater involvement of the Security Council in matters pertaining to disarmament had reportedly been resisted by India , a non-permanent member , on grounds that it would set a precedent for future intrusive inspections and controls by the UN . |
| 21 | We saw the anniversary of the Rainhill trials , with the large range of locomotives exhibited there , and runs by the classic locomotives that have survived into preservation , many of them on the Marches line . |