Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 2 | He said capital spending on school buildings and equipment had been cut twice — by Labour ( by 45 per cent ) between 1974 and 1979 and by the Tories between 1981 and 1985 , when Sir Keith ( now Lord ) Joseph was Education Secretary . |
| 3 | Such a valuation is , in any event , required by the building society to ensure compliance with the criteria of prudent management set out in section 45 and by the directors of the building society to ensure compliance by them of the duties imposed by section 13 . |
| 4 | Robert Moleyns , Lord Hungerford , captured at Castillon in 1453 , was valued for ransom at £6,000 , a sum inflated to almost £10,000 by the cost of his maintenance while a prisoner till his release in 1459 and by the charges of the merchants who negotiated the exchange of the money . |
| 5 | Hydrogen partial pressures in the colon are kept low by losses in breath and flatus and by the activities of hydrogen utilising species such as methanogenic , acetogenic , and sulphate reducing bacteria . |
| 6 | Ignorant , politically immature , with no grasp of the real issues at stake , they are guided not by rational goals of their own but by the vagaries of rumour , the skill of rival political leaders , rabble-rousing , propaganda and demagogy . |
| 7 | It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground . |