Example sentences of "by a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to this : ‘ equals of opposites , evolved by a one-same power of nature or spirit , as the sole condition and means of … means of … ’ ’ |
| 2 | We were a group of eight Australians and Americans , led by a former Atlanta debutante named Frances Higgins . |
| 3 | Secular parties like the Janata Dal , led by a former Congress cabinet minister , VP Singh , are hoping to come to an election agreement with the powerful pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , to ensure that the opposition vote is not split . |
| 4 | Last June 's vote led to the creationof a 17-strong block called the European Right , consisting of members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front from France , the Republicans from West Germany ( led by a former Waffen-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber ) , and a Belgian from the wilder shores of Flemish nationalism . |
| 5 | A revamped University Funding Council , directed by a former Cambridge don , Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , threatened to impose much more severe financial disciplines on universities that were already struggling ; on the other hand , the 1985 Jarratt Report resulted in complex new structures of planning , resource management , and managerial accountability . |
| 6 | A wrestling stadium was opened in 1933 by a former amateur wrestler and publican to show ‘ free style ’ wrestling from the USA with its commercial flamboyance and parodies of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ sportsmanship . |
| 7 | The four-man team presented its report to the Attorney General for the Free State , Mr T.P. McNally , who has been mandated to investigate charges by a former policeman that as a member of a ‘ police murder unit ’ he took part in at least eight murders . |
| 8 | The first , initiated by a former minister , Sir Geoffrey Pattie , calls for tendering to allow the size of the bid and the programming quality to be judged in tandem when awarding contracts . |
| 9 | Myanma 's ( formerly Burma ) military rulers yesterday barred one of the country 's main dissident groups headed by a former prime minister , U Nu , from contesting elections set for next May . |
| 10 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 11 | Poor polls , one showing Labour ahead by six points , were followed by an attack by a former chancellor , Nigel Lawson , who questioned the government 's ability to govern . |
| 12 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 13 | Davies , once described fondly by a former captain of Wasps , Alan Black , as the clown prince of rugby , said enigmatically afterwards that every dog had his day . |
| 14 | ‘ Since the reforms from Third World markets are so small , it does n't matter if they do n't come , therefore we could donate these genes to the Third World ’ , he says , and supports a new initiative by a former deputy director of the International Wheat and Maize Centre ( CIMMYT ) to set up a gene brokerage between the rich and poor nations . |
| 15 | By contrast , despite earlier speculation that it would be supported by ex-Cabinet ministers , Heseltine 's nomination was ultimately signed only by a former junior minister and a backbencher who had never held ministerial office . |
| 16 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 17 | It has been argued by a former Chief Advisory Officer of the Nature Conservancy Council that the implications for wildlife conservation may be considerable . |
| 18 | part of the yard of the Fleet Prison , so called because of a series of murals painted by a former prisoner . |
| 19 | The foreword is written jointly by a former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former Under secretary of the Navy . |
| 20 | If the exotic is what you seek , you might try Omar Khayyam from India , made from Ugni Blanc , Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay , grown at a high altitude in the Sahyadri mountains near Bombay , and vinified by a former winemaker of Piper Heidsieck . |
| 21 | This chapter is written with humility and with admiration by a former librarian whose strategy , when dealing with troublesome readers , was to go to pieces and leave it to Nancy . |
| 22 | It was first of all made by the Council 's planning consultants and then by the Planning Department set up under Local Government reorganisation , a department intended in part to oversee the Council 's housing policy and headed by a former employee of the Council 's erstwhile planning consultants . |
| 23 | The first book , The Lost Dominion ( 1924 ) , by a former ICS officer , Bennet Kennedy , is a powerfully reasoned defence of the pax Britannica and administrative autocracy , and might be described as an unusually uninhibited expression of the ICS point of view . |
| 24 | At the rear of the church was an old girls school erected in 1818 by a former rector , Archdeacon William Henry Edward Bentinck . |
| 25 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks Following the TV exposé of the horrors/miracle of being at the school founded by A S Neill , could we have a Speech Day address by the principal of Summerhill ; an explanation by a parent of why they have chosen it ; or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages gained by a Summerhill education . |
| 26 | When his BBC transfer was announced , the Sunday Telegraph carried an article entitled ‘ Birt : Good News For the BBC ’ by a former Weekend World producer . |
| 27 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks We asked you , following the TV exposé of Summerhill , for a Speech Day address by the principal , an explanation by a parent of why they sent their child there , or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages of a Summerhill education . |
| 28 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Woodville , informed of the arrest of her brother and of her son by a former marriage , as well as of the young king 's faithful chamberlain , was beside herself with anger and anxiety . |
| 30 | Norman Derbyshire , 51 , of Flensburg , Germany , was held after allegedly attempting to have 176lb of the material delivered by a former British Intelligence agent . |