Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game had already been enlivened by a sumptuous Derrick Lee break-off scrum ball ( and a neat assist by Andrew Garry ) , therefore it was little co-incidence that the stand-off , who had enjoyed an adventurous afternoon , was instrumental in the first try . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ While recognising that the allegations are made by a self-confessed IRA terrorist , they are nonetheless of such a serious nature that they demand full investigation . ’ |
| 3 | Andy Douglas , however , ensured the Melrose revival was delayed by crossing on the right after his colleague Liddle had been thwarted by a well-executed Ross Brown tackle . |
| 4 | Liberia 's needs had been assessed by a visiting UN Disaster Relief Organization team in December . |
| 5 | In the DCS200 , the film has been replaced by a single CCD ( Charged Coupled Device ) chip . |
| 6 | Surprisingly though , in the normal configuration all of these parallel processors are linked by a standard Ethernet local area network . |
| 7 | And he said the 800-strong workforce would not be affected by a proposed EC blanket ban on tobacco advertising . |
| 8 | A permanent garden circuit can be protected by a whole-circuit RCD , wired into the cable(s) after the consumer unit ( unless the consumer itself is RCD protected ) . |
| 9 | Hence his proposal of a ‘ non-nuclear club ’ , to be led by a disarmed Britain , to confine the danger within limits . |
| 10 | This would be followed by a massive Sunday lunch , and then sleep all afternoon . |
| 11 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , therefore , constitutional authorities eager for change have pondered long and hard , not so much on how to introduce a Bill of Rights or a restraining written constitution ( that , after all , could be effected by a simple Commons majority backed by the usual formality of assent by Crown and Lords ) but on how to ensure that such a new settlement sticks and lies safe beyond the repealing vote of yet another simple Commons majority . |
| 13 | It is the first medical technique of its kind to be practised by a major Belfast teaching hospital . |
| 14 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 15 | Ways in which this Third Area are used by people in enterprises have been identified by a retired Tavistock Institute colleague , Isabel Menzies . |
| 16 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 17 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 18 | But the stark reality they have to accept , after being crushed by a vibrant Coventry side , is that they are now also-rans in the race to become the first champions of the Premier League . |
| 19 | At least three stools were cultured for faecal pathogens and mycobacteria ; concentrated specimens were examined by direct microscopy for ova , cysts , and parasites , and smears were stained by a modified Ziehl Neelsen method with concentration for cryptosporidium . |
| 20 | So when Roger and I stepped off the night train in Aviemore this time , my hopes were raised by a starry February sky . |
| 21 | They were toppled by a 57th-minute Chris Kiwomya strike , and a furious Atkinson rushed away , saying : ‘ I ca n't believe this result . |
| 22 | Mr Murphy , who is being represented by a full-time NUPE official and fellow Strathclyde Labour regional councillor Douglas Hay , declined to comment last night . |
| 23 | As the mother and two girls , holding hands , crossed Highwood Road , Patchway , Bristol , they were struck by a brown Vauxhall driven by Flook , who sped away , said Mr Michael Hubbard , QC , prosecuting . |
| 24 | Figs 3 and 4 were generated by a flexible PostScript generator , show , which can either summarize the entire data-set on a single page , or show it in greater detail spread over several pages . |
| 25 | The Birmingham team dressed as clowns , were led by a proper Charlie [ Chaplin ] Billy Allan . |
| 26 | Cryptosporidial occysts were identified by a modified Ziehl-Nielsen stain as described previously . |
| 27 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 28 | These ideas were confirmed by a special Gallup Opinion Poll we commissioned for the review . |
| 29 | The 16th-century ruins of Knock Castle , 2 miles away , have a murky past — all the sons of the Laird were murdered by a neighbouring Forbes of Strath girnock ; when the Laird was informed he was so overcome by grief that he fell down a staircase to his death . |
| 30 | The existence of the woman had been confirmed by a female North Korean agent detained in South Korea after planting a bomb on a South Korean airliner in 1987 . |