Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 2 | The political and social tensions thrown up by this strategy became visible in the plans for the rescue and reform of prostitutes which feminists put forward as their alternative to regulation . |
| 3 | The long ones can be shortened to bring them into line , and broken ends tidied up by clean cutting . |
| 4 | Between palace and castle runs the processional route of the Royal Mile , for long the arena for the city 's most important activities , climbing as it does up a narrow ridge cramped between steep slopes carved out by ancient glaciers to either side . |
| 5 | Alcoholic drinks went up by 6 per cent . |
| 6 | Last December Judge Rant jailed eight men for consensual activities ( MT February ) ; sado-masochistic ( S&M ) sexual practices carried out by homosexual men — in private . |
| 7 | That has provided it with a group nucleus of up to 2,500 sows testing a minimum of six mainstream lines backed up by artificial insemination facilities with more than 100 boars . |
| 8 | Re-entry programmes may include practical clinical assessments , but it is more usual to rely on reports from any supervised clinical allocations undertaken during a course , and any personal assessments carried out by continuing education tutors , your mentor , or senior nurse assessors working in the area where you will be working . |
| 9 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m . |
| 10 | The contrast between Russian reality and the ideal vistas opened out by western doctrines could not have been more stark . |
| 11 | That figure needs to go up by twenty-six thousand to read nought point two three one million , and what 's left needs to go down by twenty-six thousand at ten one one four o million . |
| 12 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 13 | There had been no improvement in productivity , retail prices went up by 1.5 per cent ( although the real level of inflation was widely thought to be at least double that ) , and wages remained static in real terms . |
| 14 | Disraeli 's Government of India Act of 1858 was introduced as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny , and as a consequence of the administrative changes brought about by that Act , Scott 's brief was considerably extended . |
| 15 | Article 20.1 of the Danish Constitution allows powers to be ‘ delegated to international authorities set up by mutual agreement with other states for the promotion of international rules of law and cooperation ’ . |
| 16 | They were painters , perhaps , or poets , perhaps , casual acquaintances picked up by friendly Sebastian at a publisher 's party in Bedford Square . |
| 17 | But , unusually , the venture will do everything from research and design through to manufacture compared with the now notorious ‘ screwdriver ’ assembly-only factories set up by many foreign investors in Britain . |
| 18 | It would be difficult at school to devote time both to the study of previous philosophers and to the application of philosophy to the current problems thrown up by other subjects . |
| 19 | TAKARE , the nursing-homes group which has three establishments in Scotland , saw 1992 pre-tax profits soar by by 56 per cent , from £7.6 million to £11.8 million , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 20 | The price of petrol was increased by 47 per cent , domestic butane gas by 60 per cent and electricity by 71 per cent , and telephone and postal rates went up by 58 per cent and 81 per cent respectively . |
| 21 | There may be a handful of key employees brought in by that company to the location to establish the plant erm and to erm recruit and run the work force but my experience of these inquiries and prospective inquiries is that generally speaking they are looking to recruit labour locally and so this is not a housing generator type of development . |
| 22 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 23 | And all the smouldering volcanic lava of past England-Pakistan cricket argument and controversy was reignited in those few flashpoint moments , consuming the polite arms-length relations set up by those who had foreseen the dangers from the start of the tour . |
| 24 | But the plain truth of the matter is that there are just not enough jobs available for all the newly qualified divers pumped out by these companies . |
| 25 | The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods , under their leader Zeus , supposedly located on Mount Olympus , who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises . |
| 26 | However , the foundation of a new settlement/cemetery may be the result of shifting patterns brought about by such things as soil exhaustion and plague , or they may be new settlements caused by a growth of population . |
| 27 | Indeed , following Lucas ( 1973 ) , it could be argued that the more volatile are demand management policies , the more adept does the private sector become at unscrambling the ever changing signals sent out by monetary policy and the less volatile output will be in the face of repeated changes in the direction of monetary policy . |
| 28 | On important archaeological sites torn up by windblown salvage operations were carried out . |
| 29 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 30 | The reason for this can be traced historically to the fact that research on creativity in academic psychology has formed a quite separate strand of enquiry from that originating in the early pathographic analyses carried out by medical writers . |