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Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody .
2	( 1 ) Premises shall be disqualified for receiving a licence if they are situated on land acquired or appropriated by a special road authority , and for the time being used , for the provision of facilities to be used in connection with the use of a special road provided for the use of traffic of class 1 ( with or without other classes ) .
3	Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other .
4	‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says .
5	Looking at the particular issue of derelict areas erm within this area , er Hambledon does n't erm believe that there are any areas which could be reclaimed or enhanced by a new settlement .
6	If the new issue is for cash , shareholders ' statutory pre-emption rights ( CA 1985 , s89 ) must be honoured or disapplied by a special resolution .
7	Open complexes formed at P A3 were resistant to the heparin challenge at superhelical densities as low as -0.006 , although became sensitive when the plasmid was either relaxed by topoisomerase I or nicked by a mild treatment with DNase I ( Figure 6 ) .
8	In addition , member states are allowed to exempt from the notification requirement what are termed ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ if they do not use the securities acquired to interfere in the company 's management ; the expression ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ may be confined to market makers ( as under the 1985 Companies Act ) but the expression does seem wide enough to include own account dealers as well and this is supported by the fact that the exemption applies even to professional dealers who are not members of a stock exchange , provided that they are authorised or supervised by a competent authority ( an investment bank , for example ) .
9	That rule prohibits solicitors practising in partnership or " in association " ( where two or more firms have at least one common principal ) from representing : ( 1 ) both seller and buyer in a transfer of land for value at arm 's length ; or ( 2 ) both lessor and lessee on the grant of a lease for value at arm 's length ; or ( 3 ) both lender and borrower in a private mortgage at arm 's length with exceptions made only in the case of : ( 1 ) small transactions ; ( 2 ) where the parties are connected with each other ( commercially or personally ) ; ( 3 ) where there is no other solicitor or licensed conveyancer in the vicinity whom either party might reasonably instruct ; ( 4 ) where two associated firms or two offices of the same firm acting for the parties are in different locations , neither firm having received instructions to act on referral from the other and the matter is dealt with or supervised by a different solicitor at each firm or office and , where the solicitor is not involved in the negotiations , where no conflict of interest arises and where neither vendor nor lessor is a builder or developer .
10	Isolation groove 7 may be filled with insulation or replaced by a high resistivity region .
11	Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process .
12	Nothing was said in the early conventions about the contents of the letters rogatory , although from 1905 there was a requirement that letters should be drawn up in , or accompanied by a certified translation into , the language of the requested authority ( or another language agreed between the States concerned ) .
13	Introduced in 1975 , ICA is intended to replace the earnings lost or forgone by a working-age carer who is providing full-time ( at least thirty-five hours a week ) care to a severely disabled person .
14	Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office .
15	Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office
16	Within the southern suburb , many of the 1956–7 structures were apparently disused by the second half of the century , their footings being robbed out or cut by a new ditch alongside Ermine Street .
17	But an RUC spokesman warned : ‘ The motorist who is tempted to buy one of these will be discovered at some stage , whether it is presented at a police station in relation to an accident or submitted by a new owner to an MOT centre for a test . ’
18	Although there are scattered suggestions in the stratification literature that gender forms a criterion of stratification , such a statement tends to be either treated frivolously , or rebutted by a neat process of tautological argument .
19	its compatibility with a mandated curriculum , whether this is governmentally set or determined by a public examination system ;
20	To a family in the Lebanon whose house has been bombed by Israeli jet aircraft or destroyed by a CIA-backed bomb the definition probably does not matter much .
21	There 's a mesh vent and cloth flap in the top at one end of the inner which can be opened or closed by a small zip .
22	Almost every man is accompanied by a goat or a cow , held on a short leather thong or controlled by a thin stick .
23	To recapitulate , the effect of the complicated network of legislation which was now ( 1954 ) in force was basically to create two values of land according to whether it was sold in the open market or acquired by a public authority .
24	The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee .
25	The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee .
26	Although founded by a New Zealander , it subsequently passed to the editorship of Nicholas Kenyon , a history graduate from Balliol College , Oxford , and a distinguished music critic with trans-Atlantic experience .
27	‘ The short term benefit of certainty in household budgeting can be more than offset by a nasty shock when the rate is revised , ’ said the Abbey , which adds that its research reveals no demand for budget schemes .
28	The increased UK branch losses were more than offset by a massive recovery in the United States , where profits at NatWest Bancorp soared to £109 million , after losses of £182 million the previous year .
29	A slight ( and I mean very slight ) rhythmical easing back is all we are given to signify the transition from Allegro tempestoso to Moderato tranquillo ; albeit accompanied by a beautiful singing cantabile .
30	The key difference between the charges against Mr Clinton and those against Mr Bush is that Gennifer Flowers came forward to accuse Mr Clinton , albeit lured by a large sum of money , and replete with records of telephone conversations .