Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 2 | Others awaiting trial by the same court for corruption during Pasok 's eight-year term of office ( 1981-89 ) included the former Prime Minister , Andreas Papandreou , who stated after the verdict that not Athanasopoulos and his actions but " a collective political decision by a government " had been on trial . |
| 3 | As they were walking along a narrow passageway by the bar Mr Maltby accidentally nudged Mr Waterworth a former miner , and ‘ spilled twopence worth of beer . ’ |
| 4 | The state of goth — as catch-all historical movement for the too-ugly and the too-grim and as a modern phenom — is given little credence by UK Decay , the ridiculous Virgin Prunes , the talentless and misguided Christian Death , The Neff 's rubbish psychobilly and the new blood 's slavering adherence to the Sisters Of Mercy songbook ( eg Rosetta Stone , James Ray , Nosferatu ) . |
| 5 | However , some last-ditch defence by Karpov enabled him to reach a drawn rook and pawn endgame after 94 moves and a total of nine hours ' and 20 minutes ' play . |
| 6 | A good service may cost more in terms of staffing , but would contribute to a reduction in medical-bed occupancy by providing early assessment . |
| 7 | Take , for example , a good copy of Camden 's Britannia , Gibson 's 1695 edition with its fifty fine double-page maps by Robert Morden . |
| 8 | The Prussian government could have forced agricultural change by opening up its borders to competition from cheap Russian grain , thus undercutting the Junkers and forcing them to modernise and/or change over to dairy farming . |
| 9 | At the end of the day the pavements in this area would be covered with corn-samples discarded after a deal had been struck — the farmer would plunge his hand into his pocket , produce a sample which would be carefully examined by the dealer and then onto the ground went the handful to be gratefully devoured in due course by the rapidly growing pigeon population . |
| 10 | The general climate of the times was all too apparent as riots broke out in Spa Fields in London in late 1816 , followed in due course by the March of the Blanketeers , the Pentrich Rebellion in Derbyshire , the Peterloo Massacre and that desperate attempt to kill the entire cabinet known as the Cato Street Conspiracy . |
| 11 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 12 | It is planned for these to be joined in due course by fibreglass replicas of a Hurricane and Spitfire , a la RAF gate guardians . |
| 13 | This source of bursaries was soon augmented by a fund established by the Greater Manchester Council , and also in due course by the Government 's own Assisted Places scheme , set up in 1981 . |
| 14 | The table of procedure presupposes that after an order is made , that will be followed by a request for execution in due course by the person in whose favour the order has been made , followed by the execution by the court bailiff . |
| 15 | Results of examinations are sent to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates . |
| 16 | Results of examinations are sent out to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates . |
| 17 | A programme of events for the winter months is being drawn up and details of these will be forwarded to you in due course by the Social Secretary . |
| 18 | NOTE : Further details of the times and venue of these meetings will be announced in the local press in due course by the Social Secretary . |
| 19 | Even so it was not until July 1962 that a precarious agreement was finally worked out between the factions in Laos , and one which was undone in due course by the intensifying conflict in Vietnam . |
| 20 | A default action is any action , other than an admiralty action or a rent action , in which the only relief claimed is payment of money , whether that sum is already ascertained ( eg a debt ) or is to be ascertained in due course by the court ( damages ) . |
| 21 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
| 22 | If endorsed by the cabinet and the ANC 's national executive committee , and in due course by a multi-party conference , it would effectively postpone majority rule until the year 2000 . |
| 23 | SLICK LOOK BY TERENCE RENATI |
| 24 | Lee picked up a stick from by the broken wire fence and poked the feathers of one of the dead hens , then the bloody bit by the neck . |
| 25 | The constrained maximization problem becomes one where the level of income for the representative household ceases to be a choice variable , as it is in new classical theory , but becomes a datum , determined at the aggregate level by effective demand . |
| 26 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 27 | Basic to the idea of a level is the implication that a higher level goes beyond a lower level by including it , gathering it up and building on it . |
| 28 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 29 | It affirmed that provision by LEAs of education for under-fives was discretionary not compulsory . |
| 30 | The government plan to help private operators by robbing the Railworkers ' Pension Fund of millions of pounds to subsidize their operations for passenger and freight on a scale that B R have never ever known . |