Example sentences of "[verb] by a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If the day had been wet , the kitchen range would be surrounded by a huge clothes horse hung with wet washing , and the room would smell of steam and drying clothes . |
2 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |
3 | The children were assessed on two occasions , each separated by a three months interval . |
4 | The branch and regional structure is overseen by a national Branches Committee made up of Regional Directors . |
5 | Moreover , there are no major unresolved conflicts between states ( such as persist in , for example , the Middle East ) to be exploited by a potential arms supplier . |
6 | In one of the most outspoken statements ever made by a Metropolitan Police officer of his rank , he says : ‘ The council has been ensuring that as many cases as possible are referred to the SMG , a pernicious organisation spewing out lies and propaganda in pursuance of their own ideological aims . |
7 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |
8 | They can be created with many of the electronic publishing packages but are often better produced by a dedicated forms program . |
9 | However it was not long before the majority rule was being challenged by a special circumstances doctrine , and by an even wider rule that directors owed fiduciary duties to shareholder per se . |
10 | At the weekend , he climbed into a twin-engined , four-passenger Cessna-310 provided by a human rights group … and headed back to the homeland he had abandoned . |
11 | The second pension could be provided by an expanded pensions industry . |
12 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
13 | The work is updated by an Additional Texts binder . |
14 | A TOWN with one of the worst unemployment figures in East Anglia has been hit by the loss of 21 more jobs , while 30 posts are being axed by a major drugs firm . |
15 | The deal is being financed by a one-for-seven rights issue to raise £5m . |
16 | After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York . |
17 | Sir Crispin 's lecture was followed by a lively questions session which clearly demonstrated the interest and concern of the audience . |
18 | He had omitted to tell Meyer Tweed 's BMW was being followed by an unmarked police car , a vehicle which would be replaced by another later to allay suspicion . |
19 | And er he 's being followed by an unmarked police car . |
20 | Only do-it-ourself and textiles showed a fall-off caused by a reduced textiles range and the decision not to take part in the DIY price war . |
21 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
22 | Thus , it would not be advisable , for example , to compare a sample of heroin users generated from GPs ' records with one produced from the files of a local Drugs Council , because some GPs require patients to attend counselling sessions to complement medical treatment , so that patients who have seen their GP about their heroin use may be more likely to occur in a sample generated by a local Drugs Council than users who have not sought treatment from their GP . |
23 | Mr French believes he ’ s been targetted by an aninal rights group . |
24 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
25 | They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer . |
26 | For example , advertising may support a campaign to drink more lager with an in-pub promotion organized by the public relations team — or a health education advertising campaign aimed at children may be supported by a public relations programme of activities in schools . |
27 | I am also sorry to report that early on Sunday morning in a separate incident a young man was found dead in west Belfast in a car which had earlier been seen in suspicious circumstances and pursued by police ; that incident is being investigated by a senior police officer and the Independent Commission for Police Complaints has been asked by the RUC to supervise the inquiry . |
28 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
29 | BOY racers who plague the centre of an Essex seaside town are to be tackled by a new police campaign . |
30 | Care proceedings can only follow , however , at the instigation of the local authority or the NSPCC. ( b ) The child protection register Each area covered by a social services authority must have a child protection register to be maintained by the social services department . |