Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 2 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Bufi spoke at a rally for Baker attended by a jubilant crowd packing Skanderbeg Square . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to pressure from farmers to increase compensation for damage caused by the recent flooding of the Rivers Tay and Spey . |
| 5 | The use of airpower by both belligerents , in addition to supporting their ground forces , was largely designed , first , to damage the enemy 's morale and , second , in retaliation for acts perpetrated by the other side . |
| 6 | The last of the elections took place on April 21st , delivering , as it happened , a handsome victory across the country for candidates backed by the Liberal Democrats , and defeat for the socialists . |
| 7 | Originally the compact had stipulated that the Belau government would provide land for sites selected by the military and would compensate landowners , while the USA would provide $5,500,000 for all the land it had an option on . |
| 8 | The hon. Member will know that Renfrewshire is within Strathclyde and therefore within the Strathclyde integrated development operation , which is the largest single area for assistance identified by the European Community . |
| 9 | The case raises important issues concerning the nature of the Court of Appeal 's relisting jurisdiction and the compatibility of the decision with protections for defendants provided by the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 10 | Lonnie is carefully spoken and her reputation in her husband 's business affairs is one for shrewdness tempered by a relaxed , understanding nature . |
| 11 | Produces a quick rush of euphoria followed by a rapid depression of mood . |
| 12 | An alternative explanation for the more favourable results at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is that the type of stricture encountered by the two techniques is different , percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography being preferred when imaging suggests a high stricture and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography when it is low . |
| 13 | The treatment was as diverse as the geographical distribution , from the simple four-part settings of the complete Psalter in Polish by Mikolaj Gomolka ( Cracow , 1580 ) , employing tunes drawn from plainsong , Protestant song , and the popular music of Eastern Europe generally , to the astonishing collection of settings of Marot-Bèze published by the Dutch master Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( 15621621 ) in four books ( Amsterdam , 1604 , 1613 , 1614 , and Haarlem , 1621 ) . |
| 14 | The degree of support given to Newton 's theory by Galle 's observation of Neptune is no different from the degree of support given by a modern observation of Neptune . |
| 15 | Thus the question of legitimacy is crucial , and particularly the levels of support enjoyed by the civil political process as a whole compared with those enjoyed by the military . |
| 16 | Who then is going to organise the packages of support required by the new structure of Community Care ? |
| 17 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very |
| 19 | THE Leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to be a little more upright within two years , according to a commission of experts appointed by the Italian government to decide how to stop it collapsing . |
| 20 | The dawn of hope signalled by the French Revolution had ended as murderous confusion , and radicalism in England was increasingly under attack from both repressive government and popular opinion . |
| 21 | The two-bedroom cottage needs refurbishment but it is in a superb location , in the middle of woodland owned by the National Trust and overlooking the River Yealm . |
| 22 | Figures on the value of estates left by the deceased are sometimes used to calculate the overall distribution of wealth . |
| 23 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 24 | An increase in the temperature of a column of mercury accompanied by a proprotionate increase in the height of the column would be impossible to state precisely using classificatory concepts . |
| 25 | Hard data on the degree of protection afforded by the homoeopathic remedies , therefore , does not exist . |
| 26 | Indeed , the median number of γ-interferon expressing cells in the lamina propria was almost half the total of leucocytes identified by the anti-CD45 antibody ( range : 20–88% ) , while 13.5% of normal intraepithelial lymphocytes were positive for γ-interferon ( range : 2–35% ) . |
| 27 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 28 | The doorway is a very rare specimen , its arch a double layer of brick separated by a thin layer of Angera stone . |
| 29 | These embryologists could not accept the explanation of epigenesis provided by the French philosopher Descartes , who suggested that there were mechanical forces which moulded the embryo . |
| 30 | Or was the way they engaged with these theoretical explanations of racism governed by the same conditions as applied to their reading of the ‘ primary ’ material ? |