Example sentences of "[adj] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constant frequency clock circuits controllable by a start/stop signal are available as single integrated circuits and the excitation sequence generator of Fig. 8.4(b) needs only two integrated circuit packages . |
| 2 | Apart from these special sessions we encouraged more and more people to make statements in the main inquiry ( where the atmosphere was more formal and they could be cross-examined by a CEGB barrister ) . |
| 3 | Left FIGURE 2 Notoriously difficult : white gouache on black paper ( Tre Kronor ) A one-off by a well-known young Norwegian calligrapher . |
| 4 | I loved the rituals of housewifery passed from mother to daughter , which remained untarnished by a young commercial television . |
| 5 | In his earlier years he could counsel priests to celibacy and doubters to Catholic dogma with almost papal infallibility , untroubled by a fiance 's feelings or a questioner 's uncertainties . |
| 6 | Our own subjective judgement about the plausibility of a theory of the origin of life is likely to be wrong by a factor of a hundred million . |
| 7 | That the other person in Jack 's life , Mrs Moore , was also profoundly lonely is made clear by a generous , and at me same time comically self-revealing , letter which she wrote to Warnie on 29 October . |
| 8 | Just how much patience was needed is made clear by a story from Elaine Blond about her friend and close colleague . |
| 9 | The strength and nature of a person 's religious beliefs are often made clear by a will . |
| 10 | To fill the gap from mid-July to mid-August , grow ‘ Pandora ’ , which needs to be cross-pollinated by a variety like ‘ Cambridge Favourite ’ . |
| 11 | We previously quoted the following figures for 31 March 1991 : the average prison population was 45 , 106 while the certified normal accommodation was 43,262 , making the prison system as a whole overcrowded by a factor of 4.3 per cent . |
| 12 | They could have a country-and-western song , something like The Ballad of the Green Berets ( ’ Hokey , but it could sell , ’ said Owen modestly ) ; and a symbol too , perhaps a torch raised high by a shackled hand , ‘ like the Statue of Liberty 's ’ . |
| 13 | Unless you are forced to sail high by a boat close to leeward , come out of the start powered up and going fast . |
| 14 | Often such expenditure is raised unnecessarily high by a complex food distribution system in which foreign , rather than local , commodities and personnel take precedence . |
| 15 | But detailed claims were first made in public by a member of the former Soviet parliament , Andrei Zolotkov , in late 1991 . |
| 16 | Robyn nodded polite approval of this abstention , while privately guessing that Rupert Sutcliffe had not been embarrassed by a large number of invitations . |
| 17 | The Parsons and the Carters were incapable of conceiving that anyone could be financially embarrassed by a lunch bill , particularly one which , as Dennis kept pointing out , was bloody reasonably' . |
| 18 | They 're useful for bribing diplomats and other types who 'd be embarrassed by a sudden influx of cash . |
| 19 | Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department . |
| 20 | Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants ; MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts . |
| 21 | The Government was severely embarrassed by a similar action brought in 1988 by Harriet Harman , now a front-bench Labour MP , and Patricia Hewitt , formerly press secretary to Neil Kinnock , over covert surveillance of them by the security service , MI5 . |
| 22 | These illnesses are manifest by a wide variety of symptoms from paranoid delusions or auditory hallucinations to total withdrawal from normal communication into silence or bizarre , apparently meaningless jargon , and they have in common some degree of loss of contact with reality . |
| 23 | The second effect would appear earlier than the first and would be manifest by a reduction of survival time — the interval between diagnosis of cancer ( incidence date ) and death . |
| 24 | Rather volcanoes can be said to have a morphological capacity representing the maximum size attainable by a particular type of eruption and associated ejecta . |
| 25 | That came into my mind — from ‘ savaged by a pet lamb ’ by Winston . |
| 26 | Washington state 's so-called Erotic Music Bill , signed into law last June by the governor , has been struck down as unconstitutional by a state superior court . |
| 27 | This strategy was to devote 20% of the fund to buying futures when they were underpriced by a specified amount , and closing out these futures positions when the futures were overpriced by the same amount . |
| 28 | These are the products of a technological mastery untempered by a political imagination capable of either managing it in the interest of the planet , or of inventing a machinery capable of arbitrating between differences of interest without condoning the annihilation of one side or the other . |
| 29 | The Digest suggests that managerial , professional and other non-manual workers ( social classes AB and CI ) are overrepresented by a factor of between two and three , whereas semi- and unskilled manual workers ( social class D E ) are underrepresented by a factor of three or more . |
| 30 | An opinion made popular by a Dr David Macbride held that scurvy was due to an inadequate supply of fixed air in the human body , and that it might be cured by a dose of that gas . |