Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We passed gently rolling pastures where fat sheep and cows grazed , empty dusty roads edged with white convolvulus and daisies , and fields of grain rippling in the soft wind like beige velvet stroked by an invisible hand . |
| 2 | There she was , hair swept up as usual , mannishness accentuated by a tailored suit , her presence haloed by the only perfume she ever wore , if she wore any at all . |
| 3 | In 1979 there were reports that a ministerial reshuffle had been accompanied by charges of a coup attempt fomented by a foreign power , culminating in a number of executions . |
| 4 | The first case has been recorded in Britain of a suicide attempt foiled by a catalytic converter . |
| 5 | Compared with earlier , politically-inspired rural schemes in countries such as France ( with a larger rural vote ) , British rural electricity development was efficiently executed with , generally , lines of adequate capacity , planned zoned development , and the revenue — cost gap eased by a higher consumption than was common overseas . |
| 6 | This is word that 's coming out now of what one department did by a new member of staff . |
| 7 | The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen . |
| 8 | It was surrounded by a moat spanned by a fragile bridge which they cantered across as quickly as possible into a dusty courtyard . |
| 9 | It was ringed by a curtain wall protected by a moat spanned by a wooden drawbridge . |
| 10 | He had shown inspiration coming from Ulmo to Tuor , as the hero sat by a trickling stream , both in The Silmarillion ( p. 238 ) , and in ‘ Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin' ( written c . |
| 11 | Lane outpaced by a Spanish flyer |
| 12 | It was only high in the European Alps , on the 7992ft Furka Pass , to the accompaniment of a frenzy of wheelspin , turbo lag , understeer and a violently pulsating brake pedal triggered by an anti-lock device working overtime , that the American challenge began to fade . |
| 13 | Looking through the history section means that one character is hit by a simple but effective trap triggered by a pressure-sensitive plate below the carpeted floor . |
| 14 | In the case of an Aboriginal teenager , John Pat , whose death in a Western Australian police cell in September 1983 led to public pressure to establish the inquiry , the Commission found that the victim had died after being injured in a brawl started by an off-duty policeman . |
| 15 | Nevil Shute , in his scarifying novel On The Beach ( 1957 , filmed in 1959 ) , foresaw the extermination of the human race in a war started by a minor power . |
| 16 | In the past two quarters manufacturing output per man-hour fell by an annual rate of 1.1% , roughly the same as in previous recessions , but non-manufacturing productivity — a good proxy for services — rose by an annualised 1.2% compared with a typical decline of 1.5% in past recessions . |
| 17 | The events in Derry crystallised the feelings of frustration and discontent among Catholics and the dissatisfaction with the lack of progress towards reform felt by a wide range of opposition groups . |
| 18 | ‘ I wonder what Mamma meant by an appropriate place ? ’ |
| 19 | Occasion 'd by a Serious Admonition ’ , Leapor writes : |
| 20 | In 1758 he published the following ‘ Verses occasion 'd by a barbarous Disappointment that the Author lately met with ; wrote extempore , and left for a certain Gentleman , at his House ’ : |
| 21 | Fronting the road was a long wall bisected by a low archway , and terminated by a structure like a squat tower , surmounted by the usual pointed roof . |
| 22 | As Mrs Helmsley , 71 , settled in a Kentucky prison for the first night of a four-year sentence for tax evasion , the New York panorama became a model smile marred by a missing tooth . |
| 23 | Otis Ferguson thought the only real social comment concerned the unemployed and they were rather haphazardly brought together and in any case upstaged by a boy-girl-siren triangle hung on ‘ the back of such an old love nag as even Hollywood might be ashamed to take out for a canter ’ . |
| 24 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 25 | Oh woe is me , another potentially terrific game scuppered by an irritating multiload ! |
| 26 | that er , oh course , like everywhere else , like the building of Stansted Airport or the , you know , there was people who were against , I mean the beautiful countryside spoilt by a New Town , so they had these committees and brigadier |
| 27 | Although the precise mechanism by which K + moves from cell cytosol to the lumen of the gastric gland is unclear , a number of mechanisms that link apical K + and Cl - transport have been proposed namely — solely electroneutral KCl cotransport , electroneutral KCl cotransport in parallel with a large Cl - conductance , K + movement by a population of K + -specific channels in parallel with apical Cl - channels , and simultaneous K + and Cl - movement mediated by an apical cotransporter with partial conductive properties . |
| 28 | And there is a group of policemen , empowered by the State with all the prerogatives of coercion , who imagine themselves to be a beleaguered and oppressed minority victimized by an all-powerful conspiracy between the white liberal establishment and the black community . |
| 29 | Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . |
| 30 | Tony foretells difficulty or a journey followed by a successful issue in your |