Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade . |
| 2 | The degree of support given to Newton 's theory by Galle 's observation of Neptune is no different from the degree of support given by a modern observation of Neptune . |
| 3 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 4 | My friend Jim 's wife is in America and my other pal 's had his heart broken by a hard-hearted woman with a background like yours , who passed him up in favour of an arranged marriage . ’ |
| 5 | CDs are literally a certificate given by a deposit-taking institution like a bank or building society to acknowledge the existence of a deposit made . |
| 6 | Via a back to nursing course organised by a nursing employment agency . |
| 7 | Note also the oval aperture surrounded by a narrow rim . |
| 8 | They drove down to Causeway Bay where his junk was waiting , and were taken out to it in a sampan owned by an ancient Chinese in a lampshade hat . |
| 9 | We have tea in the conservatory , an Edwardian addition dominated by a magnificent vine . |
| 10 | The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened . |
| 11 | The school itself is described as ‘ on a healthy eminence surrounded by a small court and garden . |
| 12 | Retrovirus virions consist of a capsid surrounded by an outer envelope , and within the capsid lies the nucleocapsid . |
| 13 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 14 | The Cellar is situated in the basement of a building owned by a local estate agent and on the fringe of the main shopping area . |
| 15 | It would not call into question — indeed it would confirm — the right to govern of any one party which could claim a mandate authenticated by an absolute majority of the popular vote . |
| 16 | It sounds sufficiently tedious in an English public school fashion , an effect compounded by a little book of mock verses , Noctes Binanianae , composed mainly in the summer and autumn of 1937 ; it was privately printed and announced as " Certain Voluntary and Satyrical Verses and Compliments as were lately Exchang 'd between some of the Choicest Wits of the Age " . |
| 17 | SURPRISINGLY conventional fare from the BBCSSO with a popular classical programme prefaced by a short piece by Henze . |
| 18 | The special , complex mood communicated to the reader through this kind of romantic adventure has as its literary results a particular intensity of emotion fostered by a constant shift of pace , tension and suspense . |
| 19 | AN elephant in Dublin Zoo had its trunk severed by a visiting elephant from Chester Zoo , the Dail has been told . |
| 20 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 21 | On Abbey Craig , overlooking Stirling 's fifteenth-century Old Bridge , now stands a tall monument designed by a local mason and completed in 1869 . |
| 22 | A study prepared by a working party set up by the Planning Ministry reported in 1983 that France would need to slow its nuclear growth , cut coal production and adjust foreign gas supply contracts . |
| 23 | The monochromatic beam ( selected by filter ) from a mercury vapour lamp is directed through a differential cell , consisting of a solution and solvent compartment separated by a diagonal glass wall . |
| 24 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 25 | The recommendation made by an external evaluation team to one of BRAC 's main sponsors to continue funding the programme was also an encouraging sign . |
| 26 | The test picks out a protein made by a defective gene , the presence of which indicates the patient has the fastest-moving type of cancer . |
| 27 | The balustrades were carved oak panels decorated with scrolls of acanthus foliage , each newel surmounted by a heavy oak pineapple . |
| 28 | Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice . |
| 29 | Six people died on May 26 in the north-western town of Bamenda at a demonstration organized by an illegal opposition group , the newly founded Social Democratic Front ( SDF ) , one of whose leaders was the dissident writer Albert Mukong . |
| 30 | The fund will be available on a claims-made basis to cover any loss suffered by a former shareholder who held shares during the period April 16 to December 1 1990 , and sold that stock at a loss as defined in the settlement agreement . |