Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fourth example of a causal belief has to do with someone 's being taught to drive by a prudential instructor , whose car has two brake pedals , each moving the same single connecting rod . |
| 2 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 3 | Their cheery , knees-up-Muvver-Brown , cock-er-nee grin gradually became eroded by a grim awareness of reality as the Thatcher years dragged on . |
| 4 | Again , this is a serious defect and needs checking by a structural engineer . |
| 5 | There is nothing God-given about any particular system of measurement ; intelligent life on another planet might easily have evolved a method of assessing people 's incomes which involved multiplying by a fixed amount for each increment . |
| 6 | In a White Paper ( Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and the Reform of the Rating System , 1983 ) blame for this was placed mainly on excessive spending by a small number of authorities , which the government proposed to curtail by a new control mechanism : rate-capping . |
| 7 | Almost immediately , however , a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee . |
| 8 | And it 's these developments that the borough council wishes to see embraced by a new policy . |
| 9 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 10 | Fulmars planed below , stubby necked , stiff-winged : a short burst of flapping followed by a long glide . |
| 11 | Alan Austin and the Barley Brothers seemed afflicted by a similar grading paralysis on Yorkshire limestone . |
| 12 | He loved to dwell also on the analogies between plants and animals , remarking in 1843 that ‘ both kingdoms seem pervaded by a double representation of each other ’ . |
| 13 | 5-Aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) is the active ingredient of sulphasalazine in ulcerative colitis , and is thought to work by a local mechanism . |
| 14 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 15 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 16 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 17 | He insisted that every entity asserted to exist in mathematics must be shown to exist by a finite set of instructions whose applications yield the entity . |
| 18 | We have seen what we are going to mean by a complex thing . |
| 19 | Initially , the women were doubtless drawn by the glamour of the nurse 's uniform and by a sense of adventure ; later , as the French women who had not lost a husband , lover or brother became fewer and fewer , the more frivolous motives became replaced by a formidable dedication . |
| 20 | Like multiples , variety chains consist of more than ten stores , usually situated in High Streets or shopping precincts , with buying organised by a central office . |
| 21 | Secondly , his pre-match preparation was excellent with his faith in the Queen 's Gambit Declined rewarded by a solid score with black . |
| 22 | Then there are problems of translation ; A distant relative 's long-distant and fairly Meaningless tribute , ‘ We sha n't forget old Vanya ’ , Gets translated into funeralese as ‘ We shall never forget you ’ , which in turn Gets translated by a deaf florist into ‘ We shall love you forever ’ . |
| 23 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 24 | ‘ I got zapped by a flying saucer , ’ Bill explained . |
| 25 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive . |
| 26 | X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye . |
| 27 | The following morning he was found suspended by a makeshift cord . |
| 28 | Well over a hundred friends had been invited to luncheon at Woburn Abbey , but they were sworn to secrecy , and asked to arrive by a special route , so that no one went past the house . |
| 29 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 30 | The European car industry has increasingly become dominated by a small number of large companies . |