Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron , needing nothing , sat around the house , surrounded by other peoples ' books and music and art . |
| 2 | The summit at Cancun in Mexico was attended by twenty-two countries ' leaders . |
| 3 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Assessments for benefits and equipment , still widely delegated to doctors , are now matched by other professionals ' assessment procedures , for example when housing adaptations are required . |
| 5 | We see the same biochemical processes , the same use of sign stimuli and programmed learning , identical strategies of information processing and storage , the same potential for well-defined cognitive thinking , but very different storage and sorting capacities and , most of all , very different intellectual needs imposed by each species ' niche . |
| 6 | This study shows that the long acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201–995 given subcutaneously in a dose of 25 µg three times daily can abolish hypergastrinaemia induced by five days ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg once daily in man . |
| 7 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 8 | Darwin 's theory played a major catalytic role in converting the world to evolutionism , but historians have begun to realize that our conventional image of the ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ is an oversimplification inspired by modern biologists ' enthusiasm for the concept of natural selection . |
| 9 | What is more , current social work and health policy seeks to move away from institutionalized forms of care provided by elderly persons ' homes and hospitals , concentrating instead on maintaining ageing people within their own homes . |
| 10 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 11 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 12 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 13 | An encouraging letter from him was followed by six weeks ' silence , so eventually she walked into his office and confronted him . |
| 14 | Training involves a two-year residential course which leads to the Nursery Nursing Examination Board diploma , followed by nine months ' probation with a family . |
| 15 | A military appeal court in Bucharest ruled on June 3 that a 20-year prison sentence passed on Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the overthrown and executed President Nicolae Ceausescu , should be reduced to 16 years , followed by eight years ' loss of civil liberties . |
| 16 | Once this increase becomes easier , change to 45 seconds ' exercise followed by 15 seconds ' rest . |
| 17 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 18 | In an arena now entirely stocked by affectless Goldsmiths ' artefacts , Strains of War is weird enough to require explanation . |
| 19 | This offset the tendency towards stagnation generated by increased workers ' savings . |
| 20 | Atlas Converting Equipment jumped 60 to 585p , buoyed by some directors ' share purchases . |
| 21 | Produced by Adrian Sherwood and remixed by Happy Mondays ' production team of Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , vocals on the single are provided by Comic Strip performer Alan Pelay . |
| 22 | From 1971 to 1977 he had also been " Head of Wasdale " , a former one-roomed schoolhouse in the Lake District which he had transformed into the School 's Outdoor Pursuits Centre , guided by seven years ' experience on the Corsica trips between 1966 and 1972 . |
| 23 | Some banks were encouraged by industrialised countries ' governments to provide competitive financial packages to overseas buyers in order to win export contracts for their depressed manufacturing industries . |
| 24 | The risk decreased by 39 weeks ' gestation to about 1.1 per 1000 ( 1 in 909 ) . |
| 25 | The most likely candidates are local firm MSP Sp zoo , and DHI , which is majority owned by Munich-based Computer 2000 GmBH — although this was not confirmed by American Technologies ' executive vice-president Alex Barkaloff . |
| 26 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |
| 27 | The third image pictures the state in liberal democratic societies as a corporatist network , integrated with external elites into a single control system : here talk of external control versus state autonomy is irrelevant , for state and economic elites are so interpenetrated by each others ' concerns that no sensible boundary line or balance of influence can be drawn . |
| 28 | Any change would , however , be resisted by heavyweight landlords , whose valuations are enhanced by overseas investors ' predilection for a secure purchase . |
| 29 | These authorities indicate plainly enough that the agreement in the present case did not create a lease and that the tenancy from year to year enjoyed by the tenant as a result of entering into possession and paying a yearly rent can be determined by six months ' notice by either landlord or tenant . |
| 30 | Energy management systems may represent a major attempt to rationalise fuel consumption in non-domestic environments , but it remains to be seen how they will be received by such buildings ' occupants . |