Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 2 | Although not quite so export orientated , the Electronics sector sustains the greatest number of jobs through its exports followed by the Mechanical engineering industries . |
| 3 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 4 | Your statement that ‘ the green parties in Europe — having had most of their policies co-opted by the bigger , slicker parties — are beginning to fade away ’ ( News of the Earth , October ) can not go unchallenged . |
| 5 | Under Dej , the once affluent bourgeois residents of Herastau , the attractive northern suburb of Bucharest , were evicted and their houses occupied by the new élite . |
| 6 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 7 | He identified the ‘ main positive significance of the concept of creating a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality ’ , despite ‘ its contradictions determined by the social-class nature of its ideologues ’ , in the gradual advance towards the accepted goal and in the realisation of the principle of peaceful coexistence which corresponds to it . |
| 8 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all right , Shirley , ’ Jenna managed quietly , her eyes held by the dark gaze . |
| 10 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 11 | The fire raging , greedily licking into the timbers and beams , while the sisters , the serenity of their lives shattered by the roaring flames , fled for safety . |
| 12 | Today the planes are flying home … their pilots shaken by the first accident at Fairford in 23 years . |
| 13 | She heard nothing more than his urgent whisperings , half Italian , half English , his groans and her cries accompanied by the futile protests of the bed as he took her , slowly , confidently and with an expertise she was too inexperienced to appreciate . |
| 14 | In turn , each caught the other , avid in front of the cheval looking-glass , tilting on its mahogany frame ; their reflections lighted by the obscure flattery of fresh candles in swivelling brass holders . |
| 15 | By now Radical in name only , the party found its ambitions satisfied by the mere arrival of a Republic ; forthwith it began to offer a refuge to former monarchists and adopt increasingly conservative positions on social issues . |
| 16 | In those few cities ( Moscow is the most striking case ) where the business and social élites entertained ambitious plans for social reform , expansion of municipal services and widening of the local government franchise , they found their efforts resisted by the tsarist State . |
| 17 | She smiled at Matt across the bowl of fruit he had put on the table , her perceptions heightened by the relaxed atmosphere of the evening , very much aware of the bloom on the grapes , the green of the apples , the soft fuzz on the peaches . |
| 18 | The result is often cannibalism , especially in chickens and turkeys , which are debeaked and often have their toes cut by the same hot-knife machine as a preventative . |
| 19 | The beer , its bubbles expanded by the reduced pressure , will be fizzier than ever and magically intoxicating . |
| 20 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 21 | Everyone in the editing suite sat in silence , their faces softened by the gentle light . |
| 22 | With their papers impounded by the local police chief , they are persuaded to bomb the Niarunas . |
| 23 | Two Moslems , brothers from the United States , sentenced by an Islamic court to undergo amputation had their convictions overturned by the Supreme Court on Oct. 14 . |
| 24 | ‘ Loretta Lawson and Bridget Bennett for Dr Simmons , ’ she replied , her spirits lifted by the welcome contrast between the night porter and the irascible Koogan . |
| 25 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
| 26 | Despite a spirited correspondence in both the London and Tyneside newspapers about the need for ventilation and the defects of Davy 's lamp , Holmes was unable to get his proposals considered by the rigid and uncompromising owners . |
| 27 | He seemed driven to defend and challenge his father 's achievement , but his enthusiasms were too boyish and his concerns overshadowed by the public shift in interest to the achievements of space scientists and astronauts . |
| 28 | Until the Van Sant collection arrived in London for display in the ICA on Pall Mall , and we were able to see his creations fly by the Round Pond in Kensington Palace Gardens and at the Festival Hall on the River Thames , most of our kite-thinking came in straight lines . |
| 29 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 30 | The instructions that John Thorseby , Archbishop of York , issued for the clergy in 1357 and which were on his instructions expounded by the Benedictine monk , John Gaytrick , in a vernacular version known as the Lay Folks ' Catechism , give insight into the framework of thought within which life was assimilated to , and ordered by , Christian belief — the groundwork of assumptions that mystical writers in the vernacular could take for granted . |