Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 2 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 3 | A handful of the small nomenclatura of the Soviet cultural bureaucracy was gathering under the chandelier , the ladies in their beehive hairstyles and flowered frocks designed for slenderer frames , the gentlemen slimmed by the shiny French-tailored suits that signified access to the special clothing stores . |
| 4 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | While narrowing the old section 2 , the act is unlikely to give protection to a " whistleblower " who felt that the public should be told certain information as any defence depends on disclosure being considered to be in the public interest and that would still seem to mean " the interests of the state according to its recognised organs of government and the policies expounded by the particular government of the day " per McCowan I. in Ponting 's case . |
| 6 | This bear of a man clearly has no time for the smug certainties peddled by the top pop politicos … |
| 7 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 8 | For the purposes of this judgment it is unnecessary to set out in detail the concerns felt by the local authority about the placement of the four children with the foster mother . |
| 9 | At the first level training will be primarily on-the-job but assistants can secure a vocational qualification obtained over two years validated by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 10 | ‘ Well done ’ , said Bishop Harris in thanking all the competitors for a high standard of preparation , content and presentation , sentiments reiterated by the adjudicating panel , before the presentations were made . |
| 11 | These are questions asked by a small group of paediatricians and parents , Awareness Education , as they travel far and wide , visiting schools and county halls throughout Australia and Aotearoa . |
| 12 | Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake . |
| 13 | He had looked at the children 's modelling and their puzzling drawings of oversized objects — single , primary colours and minute figures dwarfed by the chaotic world around them . |
| 14 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 15 | A jug of lemonade and two glasses stood by the old woman 's arm . |
| 16 | The three envelope antigens of hepatitis B virus are now well characterised : the major protein ( HBsAg ) with 226 amino acids encoded by the S gene , the middle protein ( pre-S2 ) containing HBsAg and additional 55 amino acids encoded by the pre-S2 region , and the large protein ( pre-S1 ) encoded by entire S open reading frame , including the pre-S1 region , pre-S2 region and S gene . |
| 17 | The use of airpower by both belligerents , in addition to supporting their ground forces , was largely designed , first , to damage the enemy 's morale and , second , in retaliation for acts perpetrated by the other side . |
| 18 | In his study of abolition , Williams was effectively challenging the views perpetrated by an august body of imperial historians and in so doing was bringing into question the ‘ moral legitimacy ’ of the British anti-slavery movement . |
| 19 | Note that all the files referenced by the FOREIGN module , and the header file itself , must be in the same account and in the same directory before they can be entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | The output has been three double-sided video discs on energy , radiation and risk aimed to cover appropriate attainment levels decreed by the National Curriculum . |
| 21 | Employment in construction fell by 7000 over the period and employment in transport and communications fell by the same amount . |
| 22 | The arguments propounded by the former group vary . |
| 23 | This development will call for detailed research in order to establish clearly and unambiguously the skills and understandings testified by a given level of achievement . |
| 24 | The measures include multi-billion-pound loans for huge construction projects mastermined by the European Investment Bank . |
| 25 | He was one of sixteen lawyers asked by the Privy Council in 1588 to prepare bills on judicial reform and to consider the revision of existing statutes ; in 1589 he was appointed to the committee of privileges and to some ten others , including one concerning pluralities and non-residence . |
| 26 | In contrast , peptides eluted by the same method from an HLA-B8 transfectant showed anchor residues at positions 3 and 5 ( ref. 54 ) . |
| 27 | Cellular and nuclear debris were removed from the lysate by a 5-min centrifugation at 300 g and membranes pelleted by a 30-min centrifugation at 100,000 g . |
| 28 | Since the particles emitted by a black hole come from a region of which the observer has very limited knowledge , he can not definitely predict the position or the velocity of a particle or any combination of the two ; all he can predict is the probabilities that certain particles will be emitted . |
| 29 | Croat forces riled by a Moslem offensive in central Bosnia shot the civilian drivers . |
| 30 | The men were now men remoulded by the modern family into affectionate husbands , and quite unlike the earlier contemptuous brutal males . ’ |