Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments she had relaxed fully , her apprehension shrivelled by the atmosphere of friendliness and laughter . |
| 2 | Mohammed Ali Samater , was sworn in on Feb. 17 by President Mohammed Siyad Barre , replacing that dismissed by the President in January [ see p. 37174 ; for previous full listing see p. 36757 ] . |
| 3 | A road from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is to be built as part of the project , providing a link to the proposed A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport . |
| 4 | A new road running from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is also to be built , eventually providing a link to A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport . |
| 5 | Half-year profits rose by a quarter to £8.2 million , despite the slump . |
| 6 | Mr Dorrell , visiting Darlington Memorial Hospital , claimed during the 1980s the number of patients treated in the town rose by an average of 5pc a year . |
| 7 | Stamped iron depositum plates , tin-dipped and designed in the form of a concave oval cartouche encircled by a garland of flowers , first appeared at the end of the seventeenth century ; so did grip-plates , which were similarly oval with a repoussé design of winged cherubs ' heads . |
| 8 | There is only the one , topped by Pinus sylvestris , and encircled by a crown of thorns . |
| 9 | I hear from two of my friends that they were likewise inspired and helped by the Mass of Christ the King ’ . |
| 10 | They are understood by the ability of the imagination ( Rachel 's servant , Bilhah ) to relate these emotions to anticipation of the joys of heaven and pains of hell , and helped by the practice of self-discipline , abstinence and patience in the desires of sensuality ( Zilpah , Leah 's servant ) . |
| 11 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 12 | But should the barrels stay missing for a while , they are not likely to be posing much of a health hazard — at least , not nearly as much as that posed by the tonnes of poison whose storage , legal or otherwise , is now going to be looked into . |
| 13 | Large boulders stood out beside the path as grey blobs in the featureless sheets of pale grass , and flat stones had been placed as bridges across the burns , their backs hollowed by the tread of feet through the centuries . |
| 14 | It is possible that this leakage was caused by minute perforations of the gall bladder allowing transudation of bile , that healed by the time of cholecystoscopy . |
| 15 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 16 | Beyond , fortress-like , rises the Church of Our Lady Before the Týn built by the workshop of Peter Parler in the second half of the 14C . |
| 17 | The main danger now is that the gain in competitiveness will be eroded by inflation partly triggered by the rise in import costs . |
| 18 | The main danger now is that the gain in competitiveness will be eroded by inflation partly triggered by the rise in import costs . |
| 19 | Bilateral military and security negotiations had resumed in November 1991 [ see pp. 38577 ; 38762 ] after months of deteriorating relations triggered by the suspension in October 1990 of US military aid to Pakistan [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 20 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 21 | ( c ) the reserve ( of the same amount because the share capital is cancelled ) created by the reduction of share capital being capitalised and applied in paying up new shares in the target which are issued to the bidder . |
| 22 | The inclusion of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands in the new National Territory of Tierra del Fuego created by the Congress on April 26 was a " purely symbolic act " and did nothing to change " the juridical or de facto situation " on sovereignty , according to the Foreign Ministry . |
| 23 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 24 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 25 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 26 | In those days few ministers thought it necessary to attend their own counts , and Baldwin had his vigil in the No. 10 secretaries ' room enlivened by the presence of Churchill : ‘ The P.M. [ sat ] with narrow slips of paper on which he inscribed the three lists as they arrived . |
| 27 | Moreover , it is clear that a verdict of death aggravated by the lack of care may be a ‘ free-standing ’ verdict . |
| 28 | Gabriel 's use of colour is sublime , often radiantly transparent , and occasionally accentuated by the addition of sand or tar to give full impact to the overall artistic image . |
| 29 | One proposal , in the works for the past two years but delayed by the change in administration , would deal with coastal ocean zones . |
| 30 | Gradually the walls collapse , a process often accelerated by the penetration of plant and tree roots between the stones . |