Example sentences of "[noun] by a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Anne Burke was critically ill last night after being found lying in her bed covered in blood by a care assistant who went in to wake her for breakfast . |
| 2 | Established as a privately-financed institution by a Planning Board which first met in January 1969 , UCB had at an early stage to consider what awards it might offer in advance of the Charter it hoped to obtain . |
| 3 | Luckily Roy , 40 , from St Helens , Lancs , awoke and was spotted screaming for help by a crane driver who raised the alarm . |
| 4 | Suspicion began to be voiced that the minority was attempting to control the Council by a delaying tactic which would render it ineffectual and , as the number of bishops attending declined , unrepresentative of the Church at large . |
| 5 | Books on hunting may be banned from public libraries by a county council which has voted to outlaw fox hunting on its land . |
| 6 | Edwin Muir 's One Foot in Eden ( 1956 ) is a last collection of poems by an Orkney poet whose passion for ancient myth was an expression of something deeper still — a profound distrust of the urban , the rootless and the industrial — and he repeatedly glimpsed , with a painful sense of loss , a paradise beyond grey modernity : |
| 7 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 8 | The tangles were tugged out three times a day by a Norland nurse who attacked the mane in a moral spirit as though it were some disagreeable piece of showing-off . |
| 9 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 10 | the replacement of domestic rates by a community charge which each authority would set and which would be paid by every adult ( not just householders ) resident in its area . |
| 11 | The liners are then deposited in a recycling cage to await collection by a waste contractor who , in turn , empties the liners , bales the paper and sells it on to a pulp manufacturer . |
| 12 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 13 | " In Several parts of the Country , they have already established the Herring Gauge Barril filled to the Brim as a proper measure by which Putatoes aught to be bought and sold , and that four fulls of the said Barril shou 'd constitute the Boll , but that in other quarters of the Countrey they are in use to Buy and Sell Putatoes by a Creel measure which is very uncertain . |
| 14 | These are super-directional microphones which are aimed at individual speakers or sound sources ; they therefore require skilled operation by a sound assistant who monitors the signal on headphones . |
| 15 | The jury in the James murder trial at Preston Crown Court has been read a statement by a train driver who described how two days after James 's disappearance , he saw human remains on the railway line at Walton . |
| 16 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
| 17 | There were not enough , however , to stop them being blitzed in the final by a Warblers side whose quaint victory song underlined a cutting edge . |
| 18 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 19 | BRITAIN 'S science establishment is trying to suppress reports by a university group which has been assessing the cost-effectiveness of some of the country 's most expensive science projects . |
| 20 | Peter Harris is fighting a possession order by a finance company which charges interest at thirty-nine per cent . |
| 21 | Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier . |
| 22 | It is stated that the moneys have to be additional to any funding by a member country which qualifies for assistance — hence the word ’ additionality ’ , which is associated with funding . |
| 23 | I well recall one tough Yorkshire girl who was on drugs at the time , coming to a service where I was preaching , and being pierced to the heart by a throwaway line I had never intended saying , about God hardening Pharaoh 's heart . |
| 24 | The 130 pieces in a ‘ Booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v : vi : vii : and viii : parts for voyces or Instrumentes ’ dating from c. 1578 , some years later than the Mulliner Book , consist of vocal pieces without text and ‘ In nomines ’ or other cantus firmus compositions , but includes only a single ‘ phancy ’ for five parts by an Edward Blancks who is nearly as obscure as the ‘ Newman ’ of the Mulliner Book . |
| 25 | This resistance is controlled in effective value by an error amplifier which takes a signal from an error detector and compares it with a stable reference voltage , often derived from a Zener diode or a bandgap device . |
| 26 | Yes , it is inhabited again , only this time by an army detachment which monitors the efforts of a missile range in the Hebrides , but it does mean that electric light and other amenities are made available — including a pub called the Puff Inn ! |
| 27 | They were donated to the Red Cross by a mystery well-wisher who walked into the charity 's shop in Cheltenham . |