Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 2 | Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations . |
| 3 | Potentially , the heads of some federal ministries and departments could also become members , if nominated by the President and approved by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 4 | His father , shaken by the speed of the collapse and alarmed by the imminent threat to Loches and other key castles in the Angevin heartland , hastily mustered an army in England . |
| 5 | This decision was received with disappointment and regret by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 6 | A LAWYER-FREE small claims procedure , easily operated by the do-it-yourself litigant and staffed by a new body of volunteer ‘ civil justices ’ , is needed to combat problems of cost and delay Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , said . |
| 7 | While I have not pretended that pre-Chernobyl data are extensive , there is compelling evidence about soil and grass contamination in the Cumbrian uplands before and after Chernobyl , based on research and monitoring by the Atomic Energy Authority , the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , and BNFL . |
| 8 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |
| 9 | Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk . |
| 10 | On the same day a Shop Window 92 Shore Event will take place in front of Middlesbrough Civic Centre , including a march and displays by the Royal Marine Band of the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Tupper tells the story that for the evening following that most notorious of all war crimes committed between 1914 and 1918 , the torpedoing and sinking by a German U-boat of the unarmed liner Lusitania , with 702 seamen and over 1,000 passengers , including women and children on board , on 7 May 1915 , a concert had been arranged at Eastcote , with artistes from London and Northampton . |
| 12 | 8.8 To ensure that appropriate use is made of the available line management support arrangements , all requests for external counselling must be discussed with the employee and approved by the relevant District Manager . |
| 13 | The 350 acres of this coral island are thick with coconut palms , beaches of the softest sand and lapped by the clearest waters imaginable . |
| 14 | He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed . |
| 15 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 16 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 17 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 18 | The only possible way was to the north-east and east along Glen Spean where a level contour could be maintained for nearly twenty miles until , at Tulloch , the first opportunity of circumventing the mountain barrier was presented by the deep trench of Loch Treig to the south and reached by a steep gradient . |
| 19 | A list of the social and economic problems which could be identified was drawn up by the Executive Committee and approved by the full Association . |
| 20 | It is quite wrong to posit a pathological process , as Aristotle does with his theory of katharsis , whereby the audience is purged of pity and fear by the solemn events of the play . |
| 21 | For some time the activities of an ocean-going tug named Sea Rover , registered under the Panamanian flag and run by a Dutch captain , had been attracting the attention of British , Dutch and French customs authorities , and their movements had been monitored whenever possible at each sighting . |
| 22 | The place which seems above all to encapsulate the spirit of the Derwent Ings is Aughton church , standing alone in the marshlands , its churchyard lapped by floods each winter and haunted by the bubbling call of the curlew in spring . |
| 23 | In some ways most striking of all , the perception of the Soviet Union as a closed , aggressive society had been largely replaced by one of a changing and liberalising system genuinely committed to peace and headed by a dynamic , Kennedyesque leader and his personable wife . |
| 24 | Almost certainly the timing would be calculated to forestall possible discovery and defusing by a Nuclear Emergency Search Team . |
| 25 | It was therefore entirely fitting that , in the celebrated Ealing comedy about the last age of steam , The Titfield Thunderbolt should be driven by the local vicar and fired by a visiting bishop . |
| 26 | Her husband was knocked of his bike and killed by a drunken driver , who was later sentenced to twenty one months in prison . |
| 27 | This is a small cruciform building ( 33 by 39 feet ) , situated behind the church of S. Vitale , made of brick and covered by a central dome . |
| 28 | These magazines concentrate on discriminating travel , food , fashion , nature subjects , archaeology etc , always with extensive and beautiful pictorial coverage and written by the best authors in their respective fields . |
| 29 | Thus the term planning encompasses not only those places whose form shows clearly that an overall scheme lay behind the layout of streets , but also towns which , whatever form they acquired , were pushed into existence and developed by the active support of individuals or institutions . |
| 30 | Theophylline probably causes redistribution of potassium into cells at the expense of the extracellular pool , an effect reinforced by the increased catecholamine response and mediated by an increased intracellular 3,5-cAMP concentration , hyperinsulinism , and hyperglycaemia . |