Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 2 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 3 | According to a report by the Senate committee on violence and pacification which was monitoring acts of political violence carried out by the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) , the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amarú — MRTA ) , right-wing death squads and other extremist groups and also , in 1989 , links between rebel groups and drug traffickers , it was estimated that a total of 3,198 people were killed as a result of such activity in the course of 1989 , compared with 1,986 in 1988 . |
| 4 | After the initial nationalisation programme carried out by the post-war Labour government , there was relatively little change in the frontiers between the state sector and the private sector . |
| 5 | Earlier this week Clacton , unemployment blackspot of the South East , was tipped to win grant aid following research carried out by the General Municipal Boilermakers ' Union . |
| 6 | According to details reported on Aug. 8 , a study carried out by the Canadian government concluded that a mixture of energy efficiency and conservation would be the best approach to achieve the 20 per cent cut . |
| 7 | The serious fraud office has been sent details of a business deal drawn up by the former chairman of Oxford United Kevin Maxwell , and the former managing director of Derby County . |
| 8 | This is a condition brought about by the combined effect of evolution and civilisation and for everyone it is quite unavoidable . |
| 9 | The reserve was the flagship of Project Tiger , the recovery programme set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1972 . |
| 10 | Or maybe she was experiencing a sort of nightmare or hallucination — some kind of unfortunate delusion brought on by the overwhelming stress and strain of her job … ? |
| 11 | ‘ Memphis ’ is the name of the design partnership set up by the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass in 1981 when he exhibited the furniture which has now become pseudonymous with this name at the Italian Furniture Fair . |
| 12 | Since one has reason to express such an attitude in this way doing so enables one to conform to reasons which apply to one , which is the condition laid down by the normal justification thesis . |
| 13 | One is the change in product mix brought about by the changing relative price of products which have had microelectronics incorporated into them . |
| 14 | The patriarchate was abolished and ecclesiastical administration taken over by the Holy Synod ( 1721 ) , a department of state headed by a layman . |
| 15 | Both the trial judge and the Court of Appeal applied the law laid down by the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division in Reg. v. Commissioner for Local Administration , Ex parte Croydon London Borough Council [ 1989 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 16 | Their energy standard will be assessed by an energy audit carried out by the local authority 's energy efficiency unit . |
| 17 | With much of the labour flow into industry permanent , rather than of the temporary migrant pattern common in the prewar years , the population structure of many rural areas is distorted , with most agricultural work carried out by the elderly , women and children . |
| 18 | The profession has played a significant part in the development of products for long-term insurance companies and this has been helped considerably by the work carried out by the CMI Bureau , something which is unique in Europe . |
| 19 | If longer is required , further to admire the art work carried out by the local mortician/beautician , you merely press a button and are then given another three seconds . |
| 20 | An amazing amount of work carried out by the three members of the pest control team , with some additional help with larger jobs during the summer period . |
| 21 | Written by Linda Headland on the basis of work carried out by the Scottish Action on Dementia Working Group on Private Care . |
| 22 | Diplomatic sources say the ANC and the government plan to call a national referendum on the power-sharing deal if the smaller political groups decline to attend the multi-party conference to refine and ratify the plan drawn up by the two major political players . |
| 23 | Their freedom comes after Saddam Hussein has welcomed the Gulf peace plan drawn up by the French President , Francois Mitterand . |
| 24 | We will decentralise planning decisions as much as possible , giving a key role to the local plan drawn up by the local authority . |
| 25 | The second is the joint committee set up by the General Council of the Bar and The Law Society , chaired by Lady Marre , which reported in July 1988 ( Marre Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Notice that the slope of the consumption line measures the increase in consumption brought about by a one pound increase in income — this is called the marginal propensity to consume ( mpc ) . |
| 27 | Before long , their confidence changed to an icy fear as they discerned through the enveloping fog the shape of a railway engine lit up by an eerie glowing aura . |
| 28 | SINA had been an inspired hoax dreamt up by the imaginative Mr Abel ( of whom more presently ) . |
| 29 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 30 | Hitting the roof : Tom Roberts outside his home , with the two Fiestas embedded in a pile o f debris swept along by the raging North Wales floodwaters Picture : JEFF PITT |