Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | SINA had been an inspired hoax dreamt up by the imaginative Mr Abel ( of whom more presently ) . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | If no such election is made , the profits of the firm must be taxed as if , on the departure of the outgoing partner , the existing business had closed and a new business started up by the continuing partners . |
| 6 | Some of these legendary figures may be dead , so , for instance , the Yorkshire Ripper took up a mantle laid down by the original Ripper in the last century . |
| 7 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 8 | After a period of popular unrest , Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced in an interim capacity by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , under a procedure laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 9 | He sprawled sideways and took in the twitching , frightened balloon with its cross-hatched plumpness rounded out by the golden sun on one side , curving into purple dusk on the other , and the heavy , ugly , functional basket . |
| 10 | On dry summer days the dust raised by galloping posses could be evoked by a vigorous soft shoe shuffle in the red Derbyshire clay , your sandals given spurs by a twig slid in by the outer ankle . |
| 11 | ( 1982 ) show , the coverage of the Law and Order issue by the media was dominated by the agenda set out by the Tory Party aided by the magistracy , the NAS and certain sections of the police . |
| 12 | Although the old colours ranged widely and included deep or light red , blue , ‘ grizzle ’ and all-white , nearly all had white finching and white on the belly and face and early selection was made for the famous white face in contrast to a deep , rich red body colour set off by the white brisket , belly , legs , shoulder stripe and tail switch . |
| 13 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 14 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 15 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 16 | But the economically less powerful sections of the middle class became increasingly outspoken , exploiting to the full the limited opportunities for organization and public debate opened out by the great reforms . |
| 17 | His acceptance speech , in March 1985 , promised that the strategy worked out by the 26th Party Congress — over which Brezhnev had presided — and at subsequent meetings of the Central Committee would remain unchanged : a policy of the ‘ acceleration of the country 's socioeconomic development [ and ] the perfection of all aspects of the life of the society ’ . |
| 18 | It will not , however , come into effect until 1 July 1994 , eighteen months after the deadline laid down by the Single European Act . |
| 19 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 20 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 21 | Interestingly , the message spelt out by the ideological right in the United States is rejected by the ideological right in Britain . |
| 22 | With most other lines of communication knocked out by the civil war , Porua 's La Clava played an important role in informing that isolated community . |
| 23 | It was the old Daily Herald , in Endell Street , Covent Garden , then dominated by Odhams Press , in turn reigned over by the benevolent Lord Southwood . |
| 24 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 25 | Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the " fundamental substance which takes up our time remains the transition from capitalism to socialism on a world scale ushered in by the Great October Soviet Revolution " . |
| 27 | Mark had often said to his American colleagues in Detroit and New York that the sales ' promotion literature put out by the Irish Development Authority to attract internationally mobile inward investment was superior to anything produced by any other European country . |
| 28 | The Acts include a general clause which says that the corporation should keep proper accounting records and should present its accounts in a form laid down by the relevant Secretary of State . |
| 29 | A statement agreed on by the Foreign Ministers asserted " the illegitimacy of all forms of Israeli settlement " in the occupied territories and stressed the importance of " full UN participation " and " effective EC participation " in the peace process . |
| 30 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |