Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 2 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 3 | The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis , the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan 's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action , even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement . |
| 4 | In his speech on Sept. 25 , United States President Bush welcomed the creation of a Gulf Crisis Financial Co-ordination Committee [ see below ] charged with providing emergency relief to front-line states most affected by the crisis . |
| 5 | There is also a rough correlation between the groups most hit by the austerity measures and those in the vanguard of the strikes . |
| 6 | In the 1992 election campaign , Jagan performed a political volte face , promising to continue with the free market policies latterly pursued by the PNC government , including the privatization of state enterprises , in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 7 | It will offer the spine of News and Current Affairs programmes so appreciated by the Radio 4 audience : Today , The World At One , PM , the 6 O'Clock News and The World Tonight will be there , on both networks . |
| 8 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 9 | But drift gill-nets ( which are not fixed ) present a much greater entanglement hazard for the tucuxi , since they are used in the deep main river channels rarely frequented by the boto . |
| 10 | In the provinces most affected by the wave of prosperity the number of cattle thefts reported in 1898 — 9 was twenty-seven per cent less than in 1897 and 1900 ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 11 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 12 | Such a decision would be complementary to the steps already taken by the Chief Constable following the sectarian killings of the past few weeks . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend will be aware that many of my constituents work in the knitwear industry and are grateful for the steps already taken by the Government . |
| 14 | Alcester , Twyford , Whitmore Reans and Dutton Opens went first on the the Avon , canals and Earlswood lakes soon followed by the Kidderminster and Warwich matches . |
| 15 | MAS may be asked to contact potential acquisition candidates already identified by a client . |
| 16 | To meet the demand , the marble trade from quarries largely owned by the emperor was rationalised . |
| 17 | CONCESSIONS ALREADY MADE BY THE COUNCIL |
| 18 | New guidelines just issued by the government mean that the NCC and national park authorities will soon have to pay landowners huge amounts of compensation if they want to preserve scientifically valuable sites from intensive farming . |
| 19 | That lives on , and we are called and challenged to share it , to hear the words once spoken by the lake-side , ‘ Come , follow me . ’ |
| 20 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 21 | It was an exciting prospect , the new cruisers would be the largest and most sophisticated vessels ever commissioned by the Department with a top speed in excess of 20 knots and such innovations as stabilizers , gyro compass and an automatic pilot . |
| 22 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 23 | The duke was made justiciar of south Wales and steward of Cantrefmawr and Cardiganshire , which completed his collection of the major offices formerly held by the earl of Pembroke . |
| 24 | The duke was made justiciar of south Wales and steward of Cantrefmawr and Cardiganshire , which completed his collection of the major offices formerly held by the earl of Pembroke . |
| 25 | If you are a middle-aged , overweight smoker with a husband or wife and three kids also covered by the scheme , the value to you of scheme membership is probably considerable . |
| 26 | And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse , the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board . |
| 27 | In a separate agreement the heads of member states agreed that Russia should take the seat at the United Nations formerly occupied by the USSR , and a framework of interstate and inter-governmental consultation was established . |
| 28 | This has been undertaken , to date , for mathematics , science , English , and design and technology by non-statutory working parties also nominated by the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | The mean percentage correct cloze score ( i.e. , the percentage of deleted words correctly replaced by the reader ) appeared to give an indication of how well a passage was understood . |
| 30 | As a landowner , he was actively interested in agricultural improvements , and in 1800 took a leading part in obtaining an Act of Parliament for the Muston drainage scheme , covering ten thousand acres frequently flooded by the rivers Derwent and Hertford . |