Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 2 | The important thing is to solve those problems rather than trying to drive grievances underground by a further set of hasty legislation . ’ |
| 3 | Fortunately , Quetta was bought a few months later by a retired man , Harold Shoosmith . |
| 4 | An enigmatic reference to Meistersinger in a letter to Rohde in August is followed two months later by an avowed relish for the emotive Wagnerian ethos to which Meistersinger presents , comparatively , such a contrast . |
| 5 | The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism . |
| 6 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 7 | His brother , who succeeded him as the Emperor Leopold II , was able to restore peace in the disturbed areas only by a skilful mixture of force and concessions . |
| 8 | I am immensely kindly supported in my lonely periods here by a whole host of interesting and talented friends — nearly all of whom are John 's age or nearer yours as it so happens . |
| 9 | They followed this a few days later by a two-pronged push , one prong spearing towards the Bostan-al-Amarah area and the other towards Ali al-Gharbi on the Baghdad-Basrah road , meeting some success in occupying heights overlooking the town . |
| 10 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 11 | He began his planning in January but found practice curtailed two weeks ago by a heavy snowfall . |
| 12 | It was written almost 100 years ago by a little-known American . |
| 13 | The task was carried out , in remarkable circumstances , more than forty years ago by a good friend of England , the French historian , Edouard Perroy . |
| 14 | Invented over 40 years ago by a Swiss engineer , the product is now owned by a Netherlands Antilles company with its major manufacturing operations in the US . |
| 15 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 16 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 17 | The case study is based on an actual consumer behaviour investigation carried out a few years ago by a leading market research agency . |
| 18 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 19 | Chadwick himself had been forced out of office four years earlier by a powerful lobby of anti-centralizers , private drainage and water authorities and those with a personal antipathy to the ‘ wizard of Whitehall ’ . |
| 20 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 21 | The Spurs power struggle blew up on Friday when Mr Venables was sacked by Mr Sugar , then reinstated hours later by a High Court judge . |
| 22 | It was a quality goal nearly upstaged five minutes later by a 25-yard screamer from the substitute Horne . |
| 23 | ‘ Where a deposit is held for any person or for two or more persons jointly by a bare trustee , that person or , as the case may be , those persons jointly shall be treated as entitled to the deposit without the intervention of any trust . |
| 24 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 25 | Maggie glanced up as lightning flickered across the sky , followed seconds later by a loud crack of thunder . |
| 26 | .. while still watching the crater , I noticed a small cloud pass out , followed two seconds later by a considerable cloud . |
| 27 | In the first place there has to be a transfer of assets abroad by an individual resident in this country . |