Example sentences of "by [noun prp] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leisure Card is a scheme introduced by Harlow Council to bring the outstanding amenities of the Town to its residents , as cheaply as possible . |
| 2 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 3 | It was opened in 1803 , and was a horse-drawn tramway built by William Jessop to cover the nine miles between Wandsworth and Croydon . |
| 4 | By applying categories devised by Jean Piaget to chart the intellectual development of the human infant , the researchers conclude that orangutans are capable of the mental reasoning achieved by a two-year old human . |
| 5 | In the judgment delivered by Judge Holden appears the following passage : |
| 6 | He goes on to suggest that the ‘ mixture of bull-running , tipling and popery ’ was later used as a pretence by Edward VI to suppress the entire medieval guild system . |
| 7 | The 18-year-old took advantage of good work by Alan Steele to score the fifth with just 10 minutes gone , and notched the other three early goals unassisted . |
| 8 | The instruments available in the shop will range from budget beginners ' guitars right up to custom-made guitars and basses , all set up and adjusted by Hugh Manson to give the same service previously offered to Jeff Beck , Andy Summers , John Giblin ( Simple Minds , Kate Bush ) , The Sisters Of Mercy and Led Zeppelin 's John Paul Jones , to name a few . |
| 9 | 8 years in composition , we launch this giant poetic work by Sebastian Barker tracing the personal and intellectual development of Nietzsche from the early days to final decline . |
| 10 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 11 | The parts are key ones in an adaptation of a novel by Flann O'Brien called The Third Policeman . |
| 12 | The building is by K. I. Dientzenhofer the Younger of 1726 . |
| 13 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 14 | There were so many possessions in it , brought from his old home in Fiesole by Mr Browning to make the old gentleman feel as familiar as possible , that it was difficult to move about . |
| 15 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |
| 16 | Some of the advisers brought into government by Mrs Thatcher disliked the old-style Conservatism almost as much as they detested socialism . |
| 17 | Shares in some 30 other companies have been sequestered and put in the control of the Presidential Commission on Good Government , the body set up by Mrs Aquino to untangle the financial affairs of the Marcos era . |
| 18 | Hudson uses the instrumental/expressive distinction made by Talcott Parsons to characterize the two approaches : |
| 19 | He has published a history of Abbey Road studios and wrote the BBC Radio 1 special , ‘ The House of Wax ’ , two programmes narrated by Cliff Richard telling the 90-year history of EMI . |
| 20 | In England , Joseph Chamberlain dreamed of an Anglo-Saxon-German alliance and scholarships founded by Cecil Rhodes expressed the same aspiration . |
| 21 | The Tehran daily newspaper Ettela'at of May 16 , 1989 , published extracts from a document prepared by Ahmad Khomeini attacking the past political stands of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri , who had resigned in March 1989 as Khomeini 's designated successor [ see p. 36539 ] . |
| 22 | This drawing ( 1859 ) of the OLD PIER by Philip Brannon shows the paddle-steamer Rose , the first to arrive . |
| 23 | It presents a selection of pieces from the period when Turin was particularly open to exchanges with other European capitals : sculptures by Ignazio and Filippo Collino , intagli by Bonzanigo , water-colours by Bagetti and oils by Giuseppe Mazzola illustrate the high standards achieved by local artists during the late eighteenth century and the Restoration period as new developments in Rome and Paris were taken to heart . |
| 24 | On a more practical level Structure in Sculpture by Daniel Schodek covers the technical aspects of structure in sculpture , illustrating balance and geometry and the structural characteristics of different materials with works by Rodin , Calder , Serra and Christo . |
| 25 | You may be surprised to learn that it is taken from the book ‘ The Jews and Their Lies ’ by Dr. Martin Luther the great Protestant reformer . |
| 26 | This is known as the STYCAR test and was devised by Mary Sheridan using the Snellen standard but with a smaller selection of letters and with the possibility of using a 3m distance , more suitable for younger children than the standard 6m distance . |
| 27 | The Harms Commission , set up in January 1990 to investigate earlier allegations made by ex-police officer Dirk Coetzee [ see p. 37033 ] , was authorized by de Klerk to investigate the latest allegations , including claims that Lubowski , a prominent member of the South West Africa People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) , was a paid agent of the SADF ; in early March the commission began hearing evidence from senior SADF commanders . |
| 28 | The main opposition party , the People 's National Movement ( PNM ) led by Patrick Manning , won 21 of the 36 parliamentary seats and the United National Congress led by Basdeo Panday won the remaining 13 seats . |
| 29 | ‘ the purpose of the order by Wylie J. directing the preliminary issue was to save costs , not to deprive either party of an opportunity of appeal as of right . |
| 30 | A separate chapter on ‘ Fashionable Dress and Boudin ’ by Liz Arthur indicates the thorough approach to the subject . |