Example sentences of "by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 2 | In some families , rows are tight-lipped affairs , with anger masked by a pretence that all is well . |
| 3 | In March 1698 , settled in the Strand , Stringer published a congratulatory poem to Peter the Great on the tsar 's arrival in England , together with accounts from the Protestant Mercury of his dramatic cure of a person bitten by a viper and his spectacular experiments with metals and minerals for the tsar at the Deptford manor-house belonging to John Evelyn [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | A wall-painting of c .1160 in the chapel of St Anselm [ q.v. ] at Canterbury Cathedral , which shows St Paul bitten by a viper on the island of Malta , has been attributed to Hugo , although it may be the work of a follower . |
| 5 | And though rabbits use grass to plug their nursery holes , these are diminutive by comparison with a hole excavated by a badger . |
| 6 | Of these , five were killed by coyotes , which catch ferrets in the open , and one was dug out and killed by a badger . |
| 7 | Millwall 's chagrin was heightened by the knowledge that their redoubt had been stormed by a full-back , Bowen 's 60th minute winner being a cold blooded execution from Robert Fleck 's spear of a short through-ball . |
| 8 | Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame . |
| 9 | This was followed by a trio of voices relating the history of 1OAB 's community service ‘ from birth to enforced closure ’ , after which we played the doleful song ‘ There 's a Gold Mine in the Sky ’ . |
| 10 | Marine Mining , which is supported by a trio of American investors , will process material dredged from the sea off Cornwall 's northern coast . |
| 11 | Joseph was played by a Yugoslavian Sergeant , Mary by a slim Gambian Corporal and the three wise men by a trio of Tahitians with tribal tattoos and scarred faces . |
| 12 | The Palace Hotel was run by a trio of brothers : a burly one-eyed masseur , a half-witted fellow with a pointed head , and a hugely obese young man who joked from his chair in the lobby , from which he rarely stirred , that he was expecting twins . |
| 13 | THREE crooks head for Arkansas tailed by a trio of streetwise cops following a catalogue of drug-related murders in Los Angeles ( 18 ) Curzon , Yorkgate . |
| 14 | It passes through villages that become increasingly small and simple as you get deeper into the high hills : through Banca , in the eighteenth century a centre of the local copper-mining industry , then Aldudes itself , which has a very nice small square and a Basque-style church , and finally Urepel , reached by a turning off to the left from the road that continues into Spain . |
| 15 | If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ? |
| 16 | Most experts attributed this to the so-called " greenhouse effect " , caused by a buildup in the earth 's atmosphere of gases which act to prevent solar heat reflected from the planet from escaping into space [ see pp. 36783-84 ] . |
| 17 | When we moved here I was surround by sheep now I find I am surrounded by a sunday market , a bulldog bash , drag racing and now a pop festival . ’ |
| 18 | Police are still trying to trace a potential witness seen by a jogger on the canal towpath behind Mr Miles home . |
| 19 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 20 | This underground showplace was unsuspected until 1923 when a Cambridge undergraduate named Long noticed a small aperture in the hillside and , upon investigation by crawling into it , soon found himself entering a more commodious passage which in turn led to a magnificent cavern drained by a dancing stream and liberally decorated with delicate stalactites and natural carvings . |
| 21 | Of course , it was a great achievement that the United Nations reacted so promptly to the invasion of Kuwait by a dictator capable of almost infinite nastiness . |
| 22 | WHITNEY Houston was the weapon in a war of noise waged by a Teesside woman against her neighbour , a court has heard . |
| 23 | TWO youths have been cleared by a Teesside Crown Court jury of hurling missiles at police during a fracas on a Middlesbrough estate . |
| 24 | Not only that , but he is preparing to be interviewed by a Teesside literary magazine . |
| 25 | Manufacturing operations and supporting services at each of the two main plant complexes in the UK are now respectively controlled by a Teesside and Merseyside operations manager . |
| 26 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 27 | On January 23rd Citicorp 's chairman , John Reed , said the bank would have to raise its capital by a half because the Fed thinks it is under-capitalised . |
| 28 | The English expectation of life , in the 1880s , was only 43.7 years — by 1940 this had become 60.2 and increasing with the advancement in medical care — and between 1870 and 1900 , the British Empire was increased territorially by a half and its population by a third . |
| 29 | Measured by cost of damage , serious accidents fell by a half whilst those resulting in light damage rose by a quarter . |
| 30 | As seen in Chapter Six , both of these schemes cut serious injuries by a half , much more impressive than a reduction of one tenth in all injuries . |