Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a remarkably fat one that stands by the nearby shellfish stall . |
| 2 | Asia Watch , the US-based human rights organization , issued a report on May 28 which alleged that abuses by the Chinese authorities in Tibet had " greatly increased " over the last two years , and that torture was frequently used against protesters . |
| 3 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 4 | Sunderland have a better goal difference than third-bottom Oxford United , who are three points behind , and only a catastrophic series of results in their last three matches and upsets by the other teams below them , would produce a nightmare eve-of-Wembley relegation scenario . |
| 5 | They were made into medicines , perfumes and unguents by the Egyptian priests and priestesses who became so renowned for their skills that sages and physicians from all over the ancient world came to Egypt to study medicine and the Mysteries . |
| 6 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 7 | The disenchantment with nationalised industries and moves by the Conservative government towards denationalisation , or ‘ privatisation ’ , must be seen in this context . |
| 8 | He enters upstage , makes a small arc and leaves by the same side , a few feet downstage . |
| 9 | We saw the anniversary of the Rainhill trials , with the large range of locomotives exhibited there , and runs by the classic locomotives that have survived into preservation , many of them on the Marches line . |
| 10 | In the Atlantic O. dominans bears closet affinity with O. fasciculata Lyman , 1883 , found off St. Kitts , Leeward Is ( Fig. 29 ) but differs by the following characters ; the plates of the disk are much larger and fewer in number than in O. fasciculata ; the oral shield is irregular or hourglass in shape , not arrowhead shaped as in O. fasciculata , finally the shape of the tentacle scales simple and spine-like in O. dominans but leaf-like or with a broad base and an acute tip in O. fasciculata . |
| 11 | By the early nineteenth century , the term ‘ Boroughmonger ’ , at any rate in Scotland , had come to mean anyone who was anti-reform , and indeed the whole Tory party at the time were branded as Boroughmongers by the radical reformers . |