Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [noun] by " in BNC.
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1 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
2 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
3 | A SCOTTISH researcher has been led to safety after being trapped in a remote wildlife reserve by gun battles raging between rival forces in the African republic of Rwanda . |
4 | A licensing board will be held to have failed to exercise its discretion in a reasonable man tier by not giving due consideration to a matter , such as objections , if there is absence of reference to that matter in the statement of reasons ( R. W. Cairns Ltd. v. Busby East Church kirk Session , 1985 S.L.T. 493 ) . |
5 | A telling statistic in a recent election study by Rose and McAllister is that , whereas in 196480 per cent of those who came from homes in which both parents were Labour voters themselves voted for the party , by 1983 the proportion from such backgrounds which still voted Labour had dropped to 45 Per cent . |
6 | THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
7 | Nine civilians , including a boy of 11 , died in a horrific mortar attack by Serb forces yesterday . |
8 | They left the North Eastern Railway Station in a reserved railway carriage by the early morning train , hoping to make Masham in time for breakfast at the vicarage by invitation of Charles Gorham 's father , who was vicar of Masham . |
9 | The object of orders for discovery under the Supreme Court and County Courts Acts is to bring forward the time for the disclosure of relevant documents in a personal injury action by , to use the wording of RSC Ord 24 , r7A , a " likely " party from the stage after action to the stage before action , and to require disclosure after the commencement of proceedings by someone who is not a party to the proceedings at all , eg , a health authority ( Walker v Eli Lilley & Co ( 1986 ) The Times , 1 May ) . |
10 | The methodologies used by the SPRU workers have been described in a major review article by Martin & Irvine ( 1983 ) . |
11 | ULSTER holidaymakers are being offered free flights to London in a new travel deal by British Airways . |
12 | This is a modern version of a recipe in A New Family Herbal by Richard Brooks , 1871 . |
13 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
14 | A BRIDE-TO-BE was murdered in a frenzied knife attack by a man who claimed he had an impulse to kill . |
15 | The pioneering example here is a mammoth longitudinal study undertaken and described in a six volume work by Terman and his colleagues who , beginning in 1921 , selected a large group of so-called gifted children and then followed their progress over a period of thirty-five years . |
16 | Mr Whalley said the action could result in a multi-million pound claim by up to 250,000 people . |
17 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
18 | The new system , which was launched recently , enables phrases and sentences to be recorded onto a memory chip by a carer or speech therapist , and replayed in a natural sounding voice by the user . |
19 | The charges related to the administration 's attempt to conceal the US role in a secret arms-for-hostages shipment by Israel to Iran in 1985 , an issue which had led to the filing of charges against former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger , in June 1992 [ see p. 38955 ] . |
20 | Rosa was sitting in a white cane chair by the window , nursing a baby in her arms . |
21 | Ours was glancingly Tudorbethan and called ‘ The Oaks ’ ; others had clearly been inspired by visits to Spain and were called ‘ Casa-something-or-other ’ ; one or two bore hints of castellation and crenellation and were appropriately named after some of the statelier English homes ; while Syl 's house had been conceived in a dour Regency style by a less fertile imagination and its grey dressed stones were covered by a great pelt of ivy . |
22 | An Enhanced Routing/Load Balancing is designed to ensure that system resources are used effectively by intelligently allocating resources and an Automatic Throughput Optimization feature is designed to improve system utilisation , ensure consistent response time and cut overall application development costs in a dynamic workload environment by adding , or subtracting copies of the application to meet current demands . |
23 | The human genome project , which aims to identify the make-up of all human genes , could be completed in a purpose-built US laboratory by the middle of next year , according to a leading participant in the work . |
24 | Marktrace Projects Ltd ( MPL ) , formerly of West Street , Middlesbrough , is named as a central player in a huge corruption game by a TV programme to be shown tomorrow night . |
25 | Extensive community work and interviews with young Arsenal supporters in a run-down housing estate by Robbins and Cohen confirmed this impression . |
26 | ‘ Assortment of complimentary bath gels and unguents in a little wicker basket by the sink ? ’ |
27 | Mounsey , who is married to a Thai girl , will be joined in a top security prison by another Briton who appeared in court on similar charges a day after him . |
28 | EXPLOSIVES smuggled in the soles of training shoes were to be used in an attempted daylight breakout by more than a dozen IRA men in a top security prison , it emerged yesterday . |
29 | The inclusion of these provisions in the plan were referred to by Rafsanjani in a speech on Oct. 8 , when he reported that " we decided to make some amendments in the plan ( which had been completed in an earlier draft form by the previous government of Prime Minister Hossein Moussavi ) under the new atmosphere " . |
30 | As was argued in an earlier research report by Vasquez and others : |