Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
2 | They are quoted on the Stock Exchange and underwritten by similar institutions to those which underwrite share issues . |
3 | Prices , based on accommodation located centrally or in Frankfurt suburbs , include a fair entrance ticket and travel by scheduled airline from UK airports , including Heathrow , Gatwick and Stansted . |
4 | Regulation 19 requires a member who is seller under a contract awaiting performance , to give a tender to LCH ( the buyer ) by the time specified in exchange rules and accompanied by such documents as my be required by those rules . |
5 | There is a comfortable bar , a lounge and a panoramic restaurant , and outside , a sea water swimming pool is set in a large sun terrace and surrounded by overhanging trees . |
6 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
7 | A cold gazpacho soup accompanied by hot , crusty garlic bread and followed by several special salads was on the menu for tonight , and Belinda arrived in the kitchen just as Mrs Porter was garnishing with parsley a deliciously chunky bowl of boneless chicken , artichokes , avocados , celery and cashew nuts coated in a tangy dressing and resting on a bed of purplish mignonette lettuce . |
8 | Moreover , the Umgeni River near the plant , which is used for drinking water and bathing by local people , is alleged to be dangerously polluted with mercury . |
9 | The Urban Foundation , a private group funded by South African business interests and supported by multinational companies and foreign backers , on Oct. 5 , 1989 , announced the establishment of a R3,000 million mortgage loan programme to give low-income black families access to mortgage finance . |
10 | Polarisation tended to occur more on simpler machines , which could be programmed off the shop floor and operated by those with less skill than would have been required for conventional machines doing work of that complexity . |
11 | Students on a timber framing course surrounded by coracles and pole lathes and overlooked by modern architecture |
12 | ‘ He got pole position and won by 13 seconds . |
13 | This rise in prices is eliminated from the figures by dividing national income by the price index and multiplying by 100 . |
14 | Male Wistar rats weighing 250–400 g were killed and strips of colonic circular smooth muscle were attached to isotonic transducers ( Harvard , Kent , England ) in 2 ml organ baths and perfused by oxygenated ( 95% O 2 , 5% CO 2 ) Krebs Henseleit solution , composition : ( mM/l ) NaCl 118 ; KCl 4.69 ; MgCl 2 1.13 ; CaCl 2 2.56 ; NaHCO 3 20 ; NaHPO 4 1.15 ; glucose 5.5 . |
15 | The garden , with all its vivacious attendant personalities , has become a vista of flat concrete , perfect for parking cars and marked by yellow lines . |
16 | The latter , recommended by The Warnock Report ( DES 1978 ) , was established in law by the 1981 Education Act and supported by subsequent advice to professionals issued by the DES ( 1983 , 1989 ) . |
17 | The ceremony adopting the Constitution was boycotted by a number of Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) and other opposition Assembly members and accompanied by mass protests in Sofia . |
18 | The strike action came as the culmination of two weeks of widespread price riots and strikes by 80,000 public sector workers , during which 7,000 people were arrested and an estimated four killed , with 12 others wounded , as the Army and the police confronted protestors looting shops and markets around the country . |
19 | In general , the property of the non-conformist churches is administered either directly by the denominational headquarters as managing trustees , or else legally held by this body as custodian trustee and managed by honourary officials from the local church membership . |
20 | They had , these dastardly ‘ Poles ’ , been caught committing terror acts and killed by brave SS units in the ensuing battle . |
21 | Anaesthetised mice were placed supine on cork boards and steadied by elastic bands around the four limbs . |
22 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
23 | In some , the kitchen is on the ground floor and accessed by open stair and has three picture windows on three sides . |
24 | Trade bills are bills drawn by one trade customer and accepted by another rather than a bank . |
25 | The memory node itself is a small conducting region connected to an external circuit by a multiple tunnel junction and controlled by special gate capacitors . |
26 | However , in the mid eighties an amazing transformation began starting with an initiative led by the Worth Valley Railway and developed by affiliated groups , namely the Vintage Carriages Trust and the Bahamas Locomotive Society . |
27 | In February , the Bibliothèque des Arts will publish L'âge d'or espagnol by David Boone and , in April , a Dictionnaire des peintres de l'Ecole de Paris , having recently brought out the fifth volume of the catalogue raisonné of Theodore Gericault , complete with a critical study and documentary material and edited by Germain Bazin . |
28 | Add 300ml/½ point of Goose stock ( see the following recipe ) , one tablespoon of tomato purée and a bay leaf and reduce by half . |
29 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
30 | To start with , all the used fuel assemblies would have to be unloaded from the reactor core and transported by special container either to Sellafield or to a storage site . |