Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before that stage was reached , the far-reaching social and economic changes brought about by the post-emancipation process of modernization , industrialization and the growth of capitalist relationships in Russia also found their idiosyncratic expression in Siberia , newly enlarged by the territory of the Amur and Ussuri regions which were incorporated into the empire at China 's expense by the visionary efforts of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia , N.N. Muravev-Amurskii ( treaties of Aigun , 1858 , and Pekin , 1860 ) . |
| 2 | Barnes missed Saturday 's Test defeat by the All Blacks with a gashed head . |
| 3 | The showdown followed three earlier occasions when Government whips took the issue to the brink before backing down in the face of certain defeat by the combined ranks of the Opposition and Conservative rebels . |
| 4 | The Moghul Empire , which at that time covered the northern two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent , was at its most impressive ; these were the decades of the Taj Mahal , the Red Fort at Delhi , and also of an attempt by the Muslim rulers of India to conciliate the Hindu majority . |
| 5 | The response to that entry by the dominant firms via the advertising variable is being modelled using statistical ie econometric methods . |
| 6 | Juliana Hatfield , in an ideal world , would be one of the candidates for courtship by the major labels in America who think nothing of offering the noise-for-noise sake Helmet half a million dollars to ditch an indie label for the big-time . |
| 7 | A single customs tariff ( set as a pre-condition by the European Communities for reaching a commercial accord with the GCC ) would come into effect by 1993 and there would eventually be monetary unification . |
| 8 | There also appeared to be less dissension on state aid and subsidies , a subject given added poignancy by the recent revelations about the UK Government 's ‘ sweeteners ’ to British Aerospace at the time of the takeover of Rover . |
| 9 | Cast as the gaoler 's daughter , she had a pleasing soprano voice and was an adequate actress by the undemanding standards of grand opera . |
| 10 | One man who had got himself clear in that way drove in his own carriage by the very commissioners to whom he had but lately surrendered , and splashed both them and his creditors with the dirt of his chariot wheels . |
| 11 | If an appeal to France was subsequently made , a system of agreed delays in hearing at Paris , until further action by the ducal courts in Aquitaine had been taken , was instituted . |
| 12 | Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 9-10 , Commonwealth Finance Ministers issued a strong call for rapid action by the richer countries on relief to poor debtor countries , urging early agreement on the " Trinidad Terms " advocated by Major in 1990 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 13 | It was unwillingly propelled into action by the competing forces within civil society . |
| 14 | This committee and other activists opposed prospecting by planning objections , public meetings and demonstrations , political lobbying and direct action by the local landowners in the areas being prospected . |
| 15 | A system , of greater barbarity can hardly be imagined ; the country being generally so wet , the means to air and dry it here used are , to exclude the sun and wind by the tall screens of underwood and forest around every field , and these being so small , a great number are so wood-locked , that it is a little surprising how the corn can ever be ripened . |
| 16 | Think about that for a moment , cost it 's more than just a word , it 's potentially the mass genocide of innocent young people on both sides of the divide by the combined efforts of those who consider themselves fit to make such decisions for us , and about us . |
| 17 | Think about that for a moment , cost it 's more than just a word , it 's potentially the mass genocide of innocent young people on both sides of the divide by the combined efforts of those who consider themselves fit to make such decisions for us , and about us . |
| 18 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 19 | The prerequisite to certain reductions of tensions in Europe has been de jure recognition by the Western powers of the territorial realities in the East . |
| 20 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 21 | Historically , it originated in the recognition by the early scribes in the twelfth–fourteenth centuries that readers needed visual clues to tell the difference between words that otherwise would look identical ; and one of the ways they tried to show this was by the addition of the e . |
| 22 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 23 | He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly . |
| 24 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 25 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 26 | Palestine remained a passionately felt issue by the Arab masses from the Atlantic seaboard to the Indian Ocean . |
| 27 | She was lured into the private sector by the ambitious plans of her former colleague , Mr Colin Stringer , who has been dealing with mentally handicapped people for 25 years . |
| 28 | Since the second world war , but especially since the 1960s , the role of ‘ national economies ’ has been undermined or even brought into question by the major transformations in the international division of labour , whose basic units are transnational or multinational enterprises of all sizes , and by the corresponding development of international centres and networks of economic transactions which are , for practical purposes , outside the control of state governments . |
| 29 | In July an announcement by the Turkish authorities of their intention to settle the deserted Greek town of Varossi ( in the Turkish-occupied zone ) heightened tension , as did the decision to settle ethnic Turkish Moslem refugees from Bulgaria in other Turkish-occupied towns . |
| 30 | Water in the pores of rock and soil in the unsaturated zone of the ground is held in place by the same forces of surface tension . |