Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the formation of PFF was fait accompli , and apparently against the personal wishes of the Bomber C-in-C ( and the majority of his Group commanders ) the Bomber Groups were instructed to send selected volunteer crews to a squadron raised by each Group and , thereafter , each squadron would be supported by its parent Group . |
| 2 | At the beginning of Aspel and Company I felt a bit daunted by this team of brilliant people who were , in some ways , doing my legwork for me , and the odd hiccup still arises from having lots of people on the case . |
| 3 | Er being an agriculturalist rather than a planner I tend to get a bit confused by higher planning semantics of the difference between strict control and presumption against not normally . |
| 4 | Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel . |
| 5 | These bands are juniors in a hegemony established by Live Aid , that unprecedented feat of anxiety , in which the likes of Quo , Dire Straits , U2 , Phil Collins , even Boy George , closed ranks , created , as well as a spectacle of pop unity , an unbeatable mediocracy . |
| 6 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 7 | We 've got a painting of Parsons here somewhere , a miniature done by another member of the club called Peter Lens . |
| 8 | Last month 16 Mac employees gained a food hygiene certificate following a course organised by environmental health officers from Gateshead Council . |
| 9 | For example , it is not possible to differentiate between a hilar stricture caused by focal sclerosing cholangitis from one resulting from a cholangiocarcinoma , or a distal stricture due to cancer of the pancreas from a stricture caused by chronic pancreatitis . |
| 10 | Those admitted to Holland were immediately transferred to a camp surrounded by barbed wire and guard dogs . |
| 11 | Brawling has often been a pastime favoured by certain film stars ; normally those who happen to drink a lot as well . |
| 12 | In no circumstances can you set your net on a field inhabited by any farm animals , for these can panic and run into the standing nets — not only destroying the evening 's sport but also destroying the nets . |
| 13 | This will lay a foundation for future investigation within a framework established by this project . |
| 14 | It was a look copied by would-be sex kittens from sixteen to twenty-six all over Western Europe . |
| 15 | Christopher Gore , a genius tormented by mental illness , who finally lost control and killed his parents . |
| 16 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 17 | Although a wizard affected by this spell may not cast spells , he may continue to use Dispel cards from the Winds of Magic . |
| 18 | In general , the rigorous derivation of a savings function by this route is likely to be complex , but in Section 8–4 we consider a simple two-period life-cycle model illustrative of this line of argument . |
| 19 | To begin with , says Mr O'Toole , actual losses from federal timber sales are closer to $100m a year , a figure hidden by creative accounting , such as adding road-building costs to the capital value of a forest . |
| 20 | Less radically , the fashion for making heads , arms and feet from separate blocks of stone allowed the insertion of new portrait heads in old torsos , a practice condemned by some Roman and Greek writers . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be . |
| 22 | This has been confirmed by direct measurement of ascitic plasminogen activating activity and has led to speculation that an infusion of plasminogen activators could stimulate a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis . |
| 23 | These studies show that the plasminogen activating activity of ascites is primarily mediated by tissue plasminogen activator and that it is also probably responsible for a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis after insertion of a peritoneovenous shunt . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , a delegation led by Foreign Minister A. S. M. Mustafizur Rahman visited India on Aug. 26-28 , signing bilateral agreements on the avoidance of double taxation and the extension of credit facilities to Bangladesh . |
| 25 | Later , there is a picnic followed by more beach games , perhaps while the adults snooze in the sun . |
| 26 | An ivory plaque of a slightly later date shows a house with a doorway flanked by narrow slit windows . |
| 27 | Under the Fifth Republic , control of broadcasting ( most of sound radio and all one then two channels of French television ) served Gaullist direct democracy : a President elected by universal suffrage ( and not — as before 1962 — by Parliamentarians ) and other ‘ notables ’ ( and periodic recourse to referenda weakened a Parliament where , in any event , governments appointed by the General commanded a majority ) |
| 28 | John Redding , 21 , picked up a trophy donated by former Teesside County Borough engineer Jim Radcliffe , while 18-year-old John McGuckin received an award given by Garth Drabble , retired county surveyor and engineer . |
| 29 | But it is still not clear why there must always be such effects in social formations , other than because their absence would upset one solution to a dilemma posed by Marxist theory . |
| 30 | If you have visitors who let the cover droop helplessly , like a child raised by one arm and dangling in mid-air , cross them off your visiting list so far as your books are concerned . |