Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to pressure from farmers to increase compensation for damage caused by the recent flooding of the Rivers Tay and Spey . |
| 2 | The hon. Member will know that Renfrewshire is within Strathclyde and therefore within the Strathclyde integrated development operation , which is the largest single area for assistance identified by the European Community . |
| 3 | Lonnie is carefully spoken and her reputation in her husband 's business affairs is one for shrewdness tempered by a relaxed , understanding nature . |
| 4 | Produces a quick rush of euphoria followed by a rapid depression of mood . |
| 5 | An alternative explanation for the more favourable results at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is that the type of stricture encountered by the two techniques is different , percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography being preferred when imaging suggests a high stricture and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography when it is low . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus the question of legitimacy is crucial , and particularly the levels of support enjoyed by the civil political process as a whole compared with those enjoyed by the military . |
| 8 | Who then is going to organise the packages of support required by the new structure of Community Care ? |
| 9 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |
| 10 | The dawn of hope signalled by the French Revolution had ended as murderous confusion , and radicalism in England was increasingly under attack from both repressive government and popular opinion . |
| 11 | The two-bedroom cottage needs refurbishment but it is in a superb location , in the middle of woodland owned by the National Trust and overlooking the River Yealm . |
| 12 | An increase in the temperature of a column of mercury accompanied by a proprotionate increase in the height of the column would be impossible to state precisely using classificatory concepts . |
| 13 | Hard data on the degree of protection afforded by the homoeopathic remedies , therefore , does not exist . |
| 14 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 15 | The doorway is a very rare specimen , its arch a double layer of brick separated by a thin layer of Angera stone . |
| 16 | These embryologists could not accept the explanation of epigenesis provided by the French philosopher Descartes , who suggested that there were mechanical forces which moulded the embryo . |
| 17 | Or was the way they engaged with these theoretical explanations of racism governed by the same conditions as applied to their reading of the ‘ primary ’ material ? |
| 18 | An alternative line of defence offered by the National Bank for its failure to curb inflation ( EP , 10 November 1986 ) is that it does not have the power to prevent the money supply from growing faster than its planned rate . |
| 19 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 20 | The original list of damage compiled by the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation has now been verified by the The Conservation Practice in West Sussex , England , and Gifford Consulting Engineers , who were invited to inspect the damage by UNESCO in preparation for a coordinated relief effort . |
| 21 | Despite damage caused by the Great Fire of 1675 , Northampton still has a rich variety of historic buildings and churches for visitors to enjoy . |
| 22 | The budgets of course proposed by the Liberal and Labour groups , have some aspects which would be desirable . |
| 23 | There is no doubt that the quality of text produced by a 300 dot per inch page printer is of a lower quality than that from a phototypesetter — anyone who claims otherwise probably needs spectacles quite urgently . |
| 24 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 25 | Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that the proportion of income contributed by the basic state pension is likely to decline in future years because of the decision to link benefit rates to prices rather than wages . |
| 26 | Similarly , the ‘ rediscovery of poverty ’ through studies conducted by people such as Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend revealed hundreds of thousands living at or below the standard of income recommended by the National Assistance scales and a continuing increase in the numbers claiming National Assistance benefits . |
| 27 | So we should like to see an authoritative source of comparative APRs : both typical rates and the extremes of the range of rates , for different types of credit and ( where this makes a significant difference ) different types of purchase financed by the same type of credit . |
| 28 | I should like to hark back to a comment by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , North-East ( Mr. Moss ) who instanced how , in other European nations , the amount of money provided by the national Government to domestic agriculture was very much greater than in this country . |
| 29 | The existence of a powerful taboo against religion in society as a whole , together with the lack of opportunity given by the explicit curriculum for questioning the taboo , ensures that most of this implicit curriculum operates against religion — against its being taken seriously at all . |
| 30 | But the most important and interesting aspect of its role in the book is the way in which Proust 's narrative is shown to deviate from the model : Genette shows that in a number of ways A la recherche breaks and challenges the laws of narrative proposed by the abstract model but without undercutting their general validity . |