Example sentences of "by a [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the retail sector is competitive , the derived demand curve will be the same shape as the final demand curve , and below it by a distance representing the marginal cost of retailing . |
| 2 | Thus , the 1932 title Wife to Christopher is coupled with an image of a rumpled and pyjama-ed ingénue confronting a stern male profile , while the suggestiveness of Savage Love ( 1982 ) is tempered by a cover depicting a squeaky clean couple keeping their distance in a daisy field . |
| 3 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 4 | They were attracted by a course having no direct A- Level antecedent . |
| 5 | His talk about not wanting her had been nonsense , stuff handed out by a man salvaging a bruised ego . |
| 6 | A woman in her mid forties was dragged into bushes by a man wearing a black stocking mask . |
| 7 | He was grabbed by a man wearing a black balaclava and pulled to the ground . |
| 8 | A door burst open and a girl in green ran out , shrieking excitedly , chased by a man waving a wispy bra . |
| 9 | Only the carpet of snow relieved its drabness , and that was being rolled up by a man driving a small tractor with a scoop on the front . |
| 10 | Interestingly , when Laura was told about this incident years later by a researcher preparing an internal history of the company , she could not accept it . |
| 11 | His position in the overall standings was also helped by a jury hearing the previous night in which two boats finishing ahead of him in Monday 's race were disqualified . |
| 12 | The expert way to do this is with a trained eye inspecting visually from the roof and fire opening , followed by a test using a special smoke-producing pellet to check for leaks . |
| 13 | A kindly looking lady doctor arrived , followed by a porter towing a saline drip apparatus . |
| 14 | Is it not totally unacceptable that when only 13 questions were answered on Welsh matters , four of them should have been asked by Hon. Members with English constituencies and that most of the questions were answered by a Member representing an English constituency ? |
| 15 | The Record Offices of these counties possess a considerable number of awards made by the commissioners , often accompanied by a map showing the new lay-out of the parish , with the fields and roads marked out pretty much as we know them today . |
| 16 | Many viewers were upset by a scene showing a young girl in a trance covered in blood . |
| 17 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
| 18 | The BJP and its allies among militant Hindu organizations had called repeatedly for the mosque at Ayodhya to be replaced by a temple honouring the Hindu deity , Lord Ram [ see pp. 37854 ; 37964 ; 38532 ; 38682 ; 38866 ; 39008 ; 39193-94 ] . |
| 19 | Is the Secretary of State obliged to adopt the judicial view of the period to be served for retribution and deterrence by a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence ? 3 . |
| 20 | In a recent instance , a sum of over £10,000 was paid out by a scheme following a successful trace . |
| 21 | The rather dubious sources for these two modes of production explains the fact that the German and the Slavonic ( if there is one ) are characterized by a name demoting an ethnic or linguistic group and not a relation of production , as it the case for the capitalist mode of production . |
| 22 | The cylinder is then rotated through a trough of printing ink after which the etched surface is wiped clean by a blade leaving the non-image area clean . |
| 23 | He thought one of the best places for meditation was ‘ by a rustic hearth and an old cradle with a baby in it , by a window overlooking a delicate green cornfield and the waving of alder bushes . ’ |
| 24 | This makes for a very compact representation of a map ; for example the YAC map in Figure 3 can be completely specified by a file listing the 180 probes in order , with the chromosome/contig breaks marked . |
| 25 | Ed ‘ Stewpot ’ Stewpot was just playing ‘ Hot Love ’ by Ron Wood 's Wizzard this morning when he was interrupted by a newsflash saying the Right Honourable Gary Kibbett had died . |
| 26 | We have noticed that Lawrence uses few pronouns , and to some extent the definite article may be seen as an alternative device of cross-reference , less ambiguous , because it is accompanied by a noun identifying a previous reference . |
| 27 | He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag . |
| 28 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
| 29 | ONE OF English cricket 's most respected administrators once told me that there were three golden rules to be observed by a county recruiting an overseas player . |
| 30 | As we have already noted , David Rolfe did likewise in his widely publicised series Jesus : the Evidence , which was followed by a book bearing the same title . |