Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they had come by train the previous night to the nearby station of Fidenza , from various camps in southern Italy . |
| 2 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 3 | In the categorisations adopted by NACAB the greatest number of enquiries were concerned with social security ( 22.9 per cent. ) , consumer and debt ( 20.2 per cent. ) , housing ( 11.6 per cent. ) , employment ( 10.2 per cent. ) , family and personal ( 9.9 per cent. ) , and administration of justice ( 7.5 per cent . ) . |
| 4 | Measured by volume the annual increase was just 3 per cent ( the smallest increase since 1983 ) , and measured by value it was 1.5 per cent ( the smallest increase since 1985 ) . |
| 5 | The next morning ( 30 January ) The Times carried an anonymous letter , rather quaintly signed ‘ Colonial ’ , which repeated several of the arguments and phrases used by Law the previous afternoon . |
| 6 | The law on the currency reform had been approved by parliament the following day , while on Dec. 26 Yugoslavia 's first stock exchange had been set up in Ljubljana . |
| 7 | If the draft is approved by ministers the general levy for cattle will rise from 190p to a maximum of 219p , calves from 12p to 14p , sheep from 34p to 39p and pigs 48p to 55p . |
| 8 | The equations can be generalized for both shear and tension and G can be replaced by E. The mechanical analogue for the Maxwell unit can be represented by a combination of a spring and a dashpot arranged in series so that the stress is the same on both elements . |
| 9 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 10 | LEFT Papageno — the role was first played by Schikaneder-from The Magic Flute . |
| 11 | There are no two people affected by drink the same way . |
| 12 | Of the cases brought by individuals the highest number overall had been brought against the United Kingdom ( with 23 ) , followed by Belgium ( 14 ) , Italy ( 13 ) , Austria ( 12 ) , and Sweden and the Netherlands ( 10 each ) . |
| 13 | I get woken by Lucker the following morning . |
| 14 | His acceptance of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of the manyness of reality ’ , by which he probably means that reality can be conceived of in many different ways , makes it possible for him to approve of the non-creative aspect of God as propounded by the Jains , and the creative aspect of God as propounded by Rāmānuja the foremost exponent of the Viśi ādvaita position . |
| 15 | This momentous decision — it is the first time a former Greek prime minister has been indicted by parliament — was complemented by measures the left coalition in particular regards as vital to prevent abuse of power by single-party governments in future . |
| 16 | There were no Jews for them to complain about , but when questioned by Timewatch the modern Master Race considered the Paraguayan natives to be lazy good-for-nothings . |
| 17 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 18 | There is no stylistic difference between a lute song like ‘ Quel espoir de guarir ’ : and one of his ballet récits ; indeed some of the latter turn up in the lute books , as Clorinda 's despairing ‘ Toy de qui la rigueur ’ in Tancrede did with a lute accompaniment arranged by Boësset the following year . |
| 19 | So it 's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look-Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson 's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent , the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations , the savagery of his two gaunt novels , and the war against fashion-induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic . |
| 20 | A silver cup , purchased by subscription the following year , was to be competed for annually , the winning captain to hold it for a year . |
| 21 | In a press interview with the Reuters newsagency on Feb. 14 the Israeli ambassador to the USA , Zalman Shoval , said that Israel was being " given the run-around " by the US administration over the guarantee ; his remarks were described by Bush the following day as " outrageous " . |