Example sentences of "[num] [be] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 2 | Number 2914 is used by the Royal Household and number 2915 by the Travellers ' Fare staff and the Regional Inspectorate . |
| 3 | The US stock-market crash in October 1929 was followed by the international financial crisis in the summer of 1931 . |
| 4 | The Labour Party 's part in bringing down the Chamberlain Government in May 1940 was recognized by the central roles allotted to Labour Ministers in Churchill 's Coalition Government . |
| 5 | The issue of people not being able to leave the forces until they are 21 was raised by the Select Committee that examined the Armed Forces Bill , now the Armed Forces Act 1991 . |
| 6 | said , at p. 21 : ‘ The first question , therefore , is whether the bond of 1859 was obtained by the undue exercise of influence of the stepfather , and was it obtained under such exercise as that the knowledge of it can be imputed to [ the creditor ] ? ’ |
| 7 | After rectification the raw d.c. is smoothed by the electrolytic capacitors C3 and C4 . |
| 8 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , the most rapid increase in economically active persons between 1971 and 1981 was registered by the New and Expanded Towns , with Milton Keynes LLMA experiencing a massive 64 per cent growth in labour supply over the decade . |
| 10 | The organic textbook market of the 1970s was dominated by the third edition of Robert Robert Boyd 's Organic Chemistry ( Allyn & Bacon , 1st ed 1959 ) . |
| 11 | The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court . |
| 12 | The legislature comprises a 212-member Chamber of Deputies elected by a system of proportional representation for a four-year term , and a 182-member Senate , of whom 106 senators are directly elected , 50 are elected by provincial councils , a further 25 are co-opted by the elected members and one Senator by right , the heir to the throne . |
| 13 | Against most predictions the presidential and legislative elections held on Feb. 25 were won by the National Opposition Union ( UNO ) , whose presidential candidate , Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , obtained ( according to preliminary returns ) 55 per cent of the vote . |
| 14 | The Buddhist Vesak festival on May 27-29 was marked by the official suspension of offensive operations by the army , but the government claimed that nine soldiers were killed by the LTTE during this three-day period . |
| 15 | The switch in policy in 1978 was reinforced by the 1980 Competition Act wherein the Monopolies and Mergers Commission was given powers to investigate nationalized industries as well as private companies . |
| 16 | A rebellion by the Hutu people results in 80,000 being slaughtered by the ruling Tutsis . |
| 17 | The central theme of this chapter is that the challenge of developing managers for the 1990s is posed by the changing nature of NHS management itself . |
| 18 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 19 | Of these 53,37 were affected by the strong stemming and 23 by cross-referencing . |
| 20 | All six bits are used to represent most symbols in the character set , but it can be seen from Figure 2.19 that the digits 0 to 9 are represented by the four numeric digits , with the zone bits set to " 00 " . |
| 21 | The crucial weaknesses of Korean communism in the 1920s and 1930s were caused by the inadequate leadership , jealousies and animosities , the poor response among the proletariat and peasantry to communist propaganda , and the rigorous behaviour of the Japanese police . |
| 22 | The general election of May 1982 was won by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) which was returned in the general elections of April 6 and April 30 , 1987 , after winning nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in both . |
| 23 | Broca 's area was strongly activated in both the phonological short-term memory task and the rhyming task , while left BA 40 was activated by the phonological short-term memory task only . |
| 24 | Many Koreans were affronted at the liberation of August 1945 being followed by the continued presence of Japanese and of the odious methods they had employed to suppress dissent . |
| 25 | Of the 27 seats reserved for Fijian nationals of Indian descent , 14 were won by the National Federation Party ( NFP ) and 13 by the Fiji Labour Party ( FLP — which had also unsuccessfully fielded a number of candidates for Fijian seats ) . |
| 26 | The provisions of section 27 of the Act of 1952 and section 2 of the Act of 1965 were repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and replaced by section 61 of that Act . |
| 27 | What the PBI felt about their own gunners may be gauged from a French estimate that out of ten shells falling on a Verdun trench , ‘ on an average two were provided by the friendly artillery ’ . |
| 28 | Whatever its origins , the pleuron of the Pterygotes ( Fig. 17 ) is a relatively uniform structure consisting of an anterior sclerite or episternum and a posterior sclerite or epimeron , the two being separated by the pleural sulcus ( also known as the pleural suture ) . |
| 29 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 30 | Four were trained by the late Fred Rimer . |