Example sentences of "by [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford found the lead , obligingly left by Sheila in a prominent position on top of the refrigerator . |
| 2 | Standing stripped to the waist , cheered on by Redcoats in a packed arena of wooden chalets and Beachcomber bars , he won the body beautiful contest . |
| 3 | Prost , starting from a record seventh successive pole position at the start of a season , was beaten off the grid by Hill in a startling getaway which also saw the two Ferraris of Berger and Jean Alesi of France surge through from the third row to take third and fourth places . |
| 4 | The US decision was criticized by ASEAN in a final communiqué which stated that " attempts to change the [ UN ] representation of Cambodia at this time … would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution to the problem " . |
| 5 | It is the alliance made with Akarnania by the Athenian general Phormio , mentioned ( though not dated : see p. 6 ) by Thucydides in a backward-looking reference ( ii.68 ) . |
| 6 | This position was confirmed by Trippier in a subsequent letter . |
| 7 | FIDE said yesterday it would ask the Russian Anatoly Karpov and Dutchman Jan Timman ( beaten by Short in a qualifying event ) to play off for the title instead . |
| 8 | We are very fortunate to have the privilege of worshipping Sunday by Sunday in a full church . |
| 9 | Very significant was the movement by ecologists towards trophic-dynamic ecology which was developed by Lindeman in a classic paper published in 1942 which built upon earlier conceptual frameworks and treated natural ecosystems on the basis of the capacity of their primary producers ( photosynthetic plants ) to capture part of the incident solar and atmospheric energy , and to incorporate it into the dry organic matter that would subsequently yield it to the grazing and decay food webs . |
| 10 | Oded Teomi , one of Israel 's leading actors was seen by Wesker in a one-man show . |
| 11 | Siding with the opposition in the 198-member Assembly , the dissidents sought to ensure an end to the military 's previous stranglehold on politics , which had ensured the routine re-election to the presidency of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner , dictator from 1953 until his removal by Rodríguez in a military coup in February 1989 [ see p. 36458 ] . |
| 12 | The declared aims of the US response were summarized by Bush in a televised address on Aug. 8 . |
| 13 | Donald Trelford , editor of the Observer , was told much the same thing by Gaddafi in a further interview a month or so later . |
| 14 | In spite of the cold ( the temperature was about 30 F below zero ) our tracking of the wanted man continued throughout that night , and he was captured , as he slept , by Doherty in an unused farm building the following day . |
| 15 | Some of these possibilities are hinted at by Ruttan in an earlier paper ( 1981 ) . |
| 16 | End of mime , at which point , the wail of a woman in torment an OPHELIA appears , wailing , closely followed by HAMLET in a hysterical state , shouting at her , circling her , both midstage . ) |
| 17 | A falsely-run race on heavy ground contributed to Zafonic 's one defeat in six starts by Kingmambo in a four-runner event at Maisons-Laffitte in April . |
| 18 | The redundancy announcement was made by Smiths in a short statement . |
| 19 | The reliquary was held by Capricorn in a secure vault at an address in St John 's Wood , north London , which belonged to an associate company of Capricorn . |
| 20 | For example , Coppock and Duffield ( 1975 ) employed the ‘ leisure/resources ’ approach outlined above by Owens in a British context . |