Example sentences of "by the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 2 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 3 | Referring to the recent bomb blasts in Belfast , Portadown and Magherafelt , Sir Patrick told reporters that he believed the IRA had stepped up its campaign of destruction because it would never win by the ballot-box and he revealed that he would be talking to senior RUC officers later today to discuss the present security situation . |
| 4 | Despite official denials the FMLN blamed the shooting on the paramilitary police , and had responded by announcing on May 19 that it was on " a state of alert " and was withdrawing from Copaz , the body set up in March to oversee the implementation of the detailed peace treaty signed by the FMLN and the government in January [ see p. 38716 ] . |
| 5 | Such an assertion was not entirely novel ; as early as 1515 Henry had declared that : ‘ By the ordinance and sufferance of God , we are king of England , and kings of England in time past have never had any superior but God only . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 7 | It was in Kashmir that Apollonius of Tyana , a Pythagorean philosopher , became instructed by the Nagas and completed his initiation into the mysteries . |
| 8 | Before filming started , all scripts had to be cleared by the office of the Motion picture producers and Distributors of America ( MPPDA ) , headed by the conservative and all-powerful Will Hays . |
| 9 | Does not my hon. Friend find it outrageous that Labour-controlled Northumberland county council has refused to accept economies of nearly £1.5 million , as identified by the Conservative and Liberal groups , and has refused to take enough money out of balances to avoid any education cuts , but at the same time it can find thousands of pounds to issue supplements in the Hexham Courant for party political propaganda to promote the leader of the county council , who happens to be a prospective Labour party candidate ? |
| 10 | This impression of the infinitive event 's already being in the bag calls for a representation in which there is no separation between the event denoted by the infinitive and that denoted by bid , no way to conceive the bidding as existing without the infinitive 's event also being actualized . |
| 11 | A further detail which supports the view that let evokes the lifting of all obstacles to the event denoted by the infinitive and concomitant actualization of the latter is the tendency for let to form a tight unit with the infinitives of certain verbs : ( 222 ) Kreisler let fall a further heavy hint . |
| 12 | As seen above with need and dare , therefore , it is only when ought is not asserted but conceived as a mere possibility that it can cease to constitute a before-position with respect to the event expressed by the infinitive and be followed by the bare infinitive . |
| 13 | It established no right to be consulted , was dominated by the nobility and clergy , and such leading merchants as were included were appointed rather than elected . |
| 14 | Initially middleclass dress , it was adopted by the nobility and the coat was cut to be suitable for riding . |
| 15 | Cambridgeshire has never been a county dominated by the nobility and gentry , for the degree of manorial fragmentation found there from Domesday Book onwards did not encourage the development of strong lordship . |
| 16 | The most pernicious aspect of ageism is not that which is present in the minds and attitudes of individuals , but that which is confirmed and reinforced by the functions and rules of everyday social life . |
| 17 | In this approach , it is assumed that the initial conditions are determined by the functions and which represents the wave in region II as it reaches the boundary , and by which represents the wave in region III as it reaches the boundary . |
| 18 | This nature is defined by the functions and aims ( not necessarily conscious aims ) of the creature in question ’ ( 52–3 ) . |
| 19 | This he had done , according to the story , by finding the weight of water displaced first by the crown and then by an equal weight of pure gold , the measurement being that of weighing the water displaced from a full bowl . |
| 20 | Non-fuel minerals in Great Britain , with the exception of gold and silver , are mainly in private ownership although a significant proportion is owned by the Crown and by Government departments and agencies . |
| 21 | But if Louis 's intention was high-minded , his own profit was well served ; for the gap left by disappearing ecclesiastical jurisdiction was to be filled by the crown and its officers . |
| 22 | Paid in part by the Crown and in part by ecclesiastical benefices , they were Crown servants first and ministers of God only in a fairly casual sense . |
| 23 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 24 | The remainder was being retained by the Crown and would be used to form seven large , Crown-owned farms . |
| 25 | Mulroney 's request was , however , granted by the crown and he promptly named the additional senators . |
| 26 | Willie Moe snorted and picked up the boy by the leg and started to whirl him as if winding him up , which was part of a new routine called ‘ The Living Propeller ’ . |
| 27 | In those few minutes , say the prosecution , back home with the baby , Corbett , in a flash of temper , had grabbed Danielle by the leg and smashed her against the bedroom wall . |
| 28 | These were made possible by the faith and industry of Gurney 's friend , the musicologist Marion Scott , who had preserved his manuscripts , and the editorial expertise of the composers Gerald Finzi [ q.v. ] and Howard Ferguson . |
| 29 | In order to find the ‘ slices ’ , each element is divided by the total and multiplied by 360 . |
| 30 | I tried a variety of electro-acoustics as well as a solid electric guitar through the amp and was impressed by the clarity and purity of the sound . |