Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today he would sit in a think-tank , cosseted by secretaries and flattered by a stream of calls from talk-show producers . |
| 2 | A large swimming pool ( open 1 Jun–15 Aug ) is set in pretty gardens and served by a snack-bar , walk through a small pine wood and an underpass leads to the beach . |
| 3 | There is an attractive pool and children 's pool set within landscaped gardens and surrounded by a sun terrace with sunloungers . |
| 4 | Run off their feet and beaten by a record score , it was a good job the players could n't hear one Irish journalist in the stand : ‘ My God ! |
| 5 | Erected in 1700 it takes the form of two busts on a wide plinth , flanked by Ionic columns and surmount by a pediment . |
| 6 | This was the famous ‘ Clanwilliam ’ commode of 1785 by Johann Gottlob Fiedler , a masterpiece of parquetry veneering , with exquisite gilt-bronze mounts and surmounted by a marble intarsia slab . |
| 7 | On Sept. 12 the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( RJO ) in Beirut made its first formal announcement that it was holding British hostage Jackie Mann , kidnapped in Beirut in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , while Islamic Jihad issued a statement welcoming the releases and accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage , Terry Anderson . |
| 8 | A target of 20 kilograms per hectare a year has been proposed by the Canadians and backed by a number of scientists from the USA . |
| 9 | At the opposite end of the spectrum of alternative art venues is the Schneiderei collective 's presentation until 19 December of American , Alan Uglow 's , ‘ In the Name of the Game ’ , a series of Minimalist paintings executed in the enamel used for street signs and complemented by a sound recording of the noise of a football crowd at Cologne Stadium . |
| 10 | Arthur O'Flaherty of Kendal , who sent this picture , says it was taken after her arrival at Algiers in November , 1942 , just after the invasion , carrying 5,000 troops and damaged by a bomb . |
| 11 | When the car became an open tourer , the hood and supports were tucked away behind the leather-covered front seats and concealed by a sheet of green hessian . |
| 12 | In most cases , they are constructed mainly of bryozoans and capped by a unit of stromatolites ( Füchtbauer 1972 ; Smith 1958 and 1981 ; Peryt 1978 ) , but locally they are formed entirely of stromatolites ( Paul 1980 ) . |
| 13 | But it was an occasion for spectators rather than bidders and only two lots exceeded expectations , Eric Gill 's fine , if slightly sweet , stone carving , ‘ Mother and Child ’ ( lot 20 , est. £25,000–35,000 ) , described by the auction house as his most important sculpture to come to the market for ten years and bought by a telephone bidder against the Fine Art Society for £56,000 ( $85,680 ) , and Graham Sutherland 's boldly coloured ‘ Palm Palisade ’ ( lot 88 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) which was acquired by Agnews for £68,000 ( $104,040 ) after competition with private dealers Ivor Braka and underbidder Jamie Maclean . |
| 14 | These were special saloons , 30 feet long , running on six wheels and connected by a gangway with sliding doors , one for day use and the other for use as a sleeping chamber . |
| 15 | The form is a basin supported on three stout legs and with two big ring-handles standing upright on the rim , these often supported by human figures and crowned by a horse . |
| 16 | The importance of such rights , and the feeling that they were fundamental to the workings of society , is reflected in the fact that when one ruler ceded territory to another it was usually defined in terms of jurisdictions and local administrative divisions ( on the French frontiers , for example , baillages , prévotés , sénéchaussées or communes ) and not , as would now be the case , in those of lines laid down in precise geographical terms and illustrated by a map . |
| 17 | Geared to local economic needs , dominated by businessmen rather than bureaucrats and financed by a mixture of public and private money , TECs originally promised a genuine break with the Whitehall-dominated past : a chance , at last , to give high-quality training the priority so often denied it for decades . |
| 18 | Commands consist of a channel address and pulse width information sent in a string of printable hexadecimal ASCII characters and terminated by a carriage return . |
| 19 | It is particularly noted for its dome with high drum , supported on pendentives and pierced with two rows of windows and crowned by a stone ribbed cupola ( 313 ) . |
| 20 | They can be bought at most large hardware stores and fixed by a handyman . |
| 21 | Named after the famous battleships and secured by a £12 patent , the twenty Dreadnoughts which operated on Blackpool Promenade from the turn of the Century until 1934 , were certainly unique . |
| 22 | Viewed from the end of Chandni Chowk , the sight is superb : a great rhubarb-red curtain wall pierced by a pair of magnificent gates and fortified by a ripple of projecting bastions , each one topped with a helmet-shaped chattri . |
| 23 | There were so many people in the room that you could not pass a needle between them , so how it was that the Gypsy Kings , carrying large musical instruments and followed by a television crew , came to arrive at the dinner table unmaimed , must remain a mystery for ever . |
| 24 | For the purposes of the Code , this expression includes takeover and merger transactions ( including reverse takeovers ) , partial offers , Court Schemes and offers by a parent company for shares in a subsidiary . |
| 25 | They will be based in sprawling premises and surrounded by a range of leisure facilities and fast food outlets . |
| 26 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 27 | As it crumbled , a new world appeared in which Europe was overshadowed by two super-states and jostled by a throng of new nations . |
| 28 | CHRONIC constipation could be caused by an excess of the body 's own opiate-like chemicals and cured by a drug which reverses their effects . |