Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 2 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 3 | The history of religions is a history of intolerance and cruelty towards non-believers , and the love extends only to those who are believers and loved by the same supernatural being . |
| 4 | In 1768 he patented a method for hardening and preserving wood , which was effectively applied to several warships and publicized by an eight-page advertisement ( 1770 ) ; it describes thirty-one items tested at his Great Tower Hill works , ranging from brewing implements and wooden pipes for London waterworks to twenty-five gun-carriages treated for the Tower of London garrison . |
| 5 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 6 | Tension was measured by Pioden transducers and recorded by a six channel Teckman pen recorder . |
| 7 | Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur . |
| 8 | Dividends , which are what the shareholder is paid for the use of his money , are recommended by the directors and authorized by the annual general meeting of shareholders . |
| 9 | Dividends , which are what the shareholder is paid for the use of his money , are recommended by the directors and authorized by the annual general meeting of shareholders . |
| 10 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 11 | Of the 19th Century an imposing and most impressive empire mahogany breakfront bibliotheque embellished with superior ormolu mounts and surmounted by a classical pediment . |
| 12 | Economists , the statistics profession , trade unions and Opposition politicians all pledged support for the idea of a national council which is being promoted by eminent statisticians and considered by the Royal Statistical Society . |
| 13 | On May 22-23 a 48-hour general strike , in protest against the recessionary effects of the government 's anti-inflation policies and led by the Central Unica de Trabajadores ( CUT ) , failed to secure wide support . |
| 14 | They were forced to turn back , part with their briefcases and leave by the main exit , enduring a search and the humiliation of the crowd . |
| 15 | Romeo Venetiaan , President of the Peace Commission of the government of President Ronald Venetiaan , described the decision as a " distinct development " and promised development aid to the interior jungle regions controlled by these groups and inhabited by an estimated 50,000 indigenous people , effectively disenfranchised and living in largely autonomous village communities . |
| 16 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 17 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 18 | Defeat for the Welsh All Blacks , particularly at the fortress that is The Gnoll , is a rare occurrence , hated by the players , frowned upon by the coaches and detested by the increasing army of fans who continue to pack the ground . |
| 19 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 20 | The Mayan city is built from white , hand-hewn rocks , laid out at perfect right angles and dominated by a giant pyramid . |
| 21 | The balance sheet at that date will be prepared by the Vendors on a basis consistent with prior years and audited by the existing auditors of ABC , DEF & Co. , Chartered Accountants . |
| 22 | We lived in the tenement block that ran its whole length in a top-storey room and kitchen with no bathroom and an outside toilet shared with several other families and reached by an open staircase . |
| 23 | It applies to all those thoughts of the human mind which are real enough to the thinker , but which can not be converted to physical things and detected by the five senses of sight , hearing , touch , taste and smell . |
| 24 | The picture wall in his underground burrow seemed to absorb him ; it was a holo of the South Seas , forested hillsides plunging down to warm waters and punctuated by the vivid exclamation marks of birds . |
| 25 | For too long , we have been hidebound by fears borne of self-selected memories and infused by a false jingoism — a vision of Europe in which Britain sees itself surrounded solely by enemies and not friends . |
| 26 | Local community-based education projects , even when organised and controlled by local people , often mirrored the very education offered by traditional providers and rejected by a large section of the working class . |
| 27 | Delegates also proposed that a president , with ceremonial and executive powers and chosen by the national assembly , should supervise the functions of the Cabinet acting through a prime minister . |
| 28 | The design and size of the roof timbers is governed by the Building Regulations and approved by the local authority . |
| 29 | She steps from the bath , stretching for a towel in one of those ungainly , intimate postures so beloved of Impressionist painters and deplored by the feminist art historians Robyn admires . |
| 30 | Like the earlier pact which was due to due to expire in 1991 [ see pp. 36636 ; 34522-23 ] , the new agreement did not provide for a price support structure common to other commodity arrangements and favoured by the two largest jute producers , Bangladesh and India . |