Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
2 | Organisations can only achieve their goals by the coordinated efforts of their members . |
3 | Hannah Clement and Kerry Harman were fourth and sixth in the 1981 butterfly , completing a fine set of performances by the 1981 girls in these championships . |
4 | WEMBLEY Stadium has staged performances by the biggest heroes in rock , boxing and soccer . |
5 | They can be easily distinguished from closed back rugs by the white threads of inserted wefting running across the back . |
6 | In response to demands by the new governments of Czechoslovakia and Hungary [ see p. 37195 ] and in line with the Soviet undertaking given in December 1989 to bring home all its foreign-based troops by the year 2000 [ see p. 37225 ] , the Soviet Union agreed during late February and early March to withdraw its troops from Czechoslovakia and Hungary by mid-1991 . |
7 | I suggest that , that is er brought maybe before the motions immediately before the motions are put , erm after the motions , after the debate as one debate I am proposing not later than twelve forty five to call for the winding up erm speeches by the three movers of the motions and to take the votes erm prior to lunch . |
8 | The differences are there for an experienced ear to find , as many reviewers of recordings by the institutional choirs of cathedrals and Oxbridge chapels will surely admit with particular alacrity . |
9 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
10 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
11 | The 4f electrons in the lanthanides and their compounds and the 5f electrons in the actinides and their compounds are well screened from external effects by the filled shells of higher principal quantum number . |
12 | The new one is to name the scorers of the 11 tries by the All Blacks at Wellington on June 6 , 1992 ; Arran Pene , Frank Bunce and Matt Cooper scored two each and the others were Eroni Clarke , Ian Jones , John Timu , John Kirwan and Ant Strachan . |
13 | Penda 's invasion of the territory of the eastern Angles in 635/6 or 636/7 , when he slew in battle both King Ecgric and the ex-king , Sigeberht , who had been brought out of his monastery to lead the army with Ecgric ( HE 111 , 18 ) , terminated , as far as can be seen , the exercise of royal power among the eastern Angles by the direct descendants of Raedwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , and made the repression of Penda 's ambition imperative if Oswald were to reconstruct the paramount position which had been Eadwine 's . |
14 | After protests by the Western Allies about the infringement of the Four Powers agreement , West Berliners were moving again through the Friedrichstrasse crossing yesterday . |
15 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
16 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
17 | Then fill in the estimated figures by the relevant items on the schedule enclosed with this brochure . |
18 | There existed at that time , a real threat of an invasion of the British Isles by the French forces under Napoleon , so militia groups were formed and Martello Towers were erected around the more vulnerable coast line , to ward off and give warning of any sign of an invading fleet . |
19 | The idea that control of ‘ inferior ’ governmental bodies and officers by the higher echelons of government is in some way particularly desirable is reflected in the history of the so-called ‘ prerogative ’ orders : certiorari , prohibition , and mandamus . |
20 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
21 | They contrast his intention to supersede capitalists and managers by the elected representatives of voluntary and sectional associations of producers with ‘ the modern Socialist proposal to substitute the officials of the Municipality or State ’ which would , they recognise , have been ‘ unthinkable at a period when all local governing bodies were notoriously inefficient and corrupt and Parliament practically an oligarchy ’ . |
22 | Community care co-ordinated from Brussels and delivered into neighbourhoods by the corporate providers of the European Community would seem the final blow to the familial , private and intimately local ideal . |
23 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |
24 | Da Montaigne a Goethe , in which Cesare de Seta fleshes out the classic eighteenth-century journey with material from literary sources , travel diaries , and guide books , as well as paintings , drawings and engravings by the major artists of the period . |
25 | We have been approached by the leader of a Youth Club who organises displays by the young girls in flag waving and club swinging . |
26 | Beyond school , the traditional idea that craft and technician courses can turn out ‘ finished ’ workers is being undermined in many occupations by the rapid changes in work skills , and hence the foundation function of the 16–19 stage seems to be becoming more obvious . |
27 | Among other things , it was found that index futures prices lead spot prices by a few minutes in the USA . |
28 | Graduates have also been granted exemptions by the professional bodies in personnel , marketing , banking and insurance . |
29 | The Tribunal rejected appeals by lawyers acting for the Marcos 's heirs , including his wife , Imelda Marcos , against earlier decisions by the Swiss cantons of Fribourg and Zürich to give legal assistance to the Philippines government in its efforts to recover the assets , variously estimated as amounting to between $330,000,000 and $500,000,000 . |
30 | This consideration points to the fact that the very restrictions imposed on societies by the Rawlsian principles of justice make the implementation of some conceptions of the good more difficult and their pursuit by individuals less attractive than that of others . |