Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier the same year it had been preceded by a Criminal Law Act which brought to an end the time-honoured division of crimes into felonies and misdemeanours , as well as abolishing certain obsolete crimes and the torts of maintenance and champerty on the recommendation of the Law Commission . |
| 2 | Not far from Cairo the road was joined by a single-track railway line which carries mined iron ore from the oasis and a line of telegraph poles . |
| 3 | ITV had a good traditional Western on , in which the grizzled old sheriff ( played by a clapped-out Hollywood actor who had kept out of politics ) taught the rules of the game and his homespun philosophy to his tearaway young deputy ( played by a reformed pop star ) . |
| 4 | And then in addition to that if you were a poor peasant who had to hire land from somebody else , you would of course pay rent and in the nineteen thirties it 's been estimated that the average rent paid by a poor peasant farming somebody else 's land was forty five percent of the harvest . |
| 5 | The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) . |
| 6 | The Steam Tank is powered by a substantial iron boiler which feeds steam through a series of pipes and pistons to drive the wheels . |
| 7 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
| 8 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 9 | 4 Patient accompanied to theatre by a familiar ward nurse who may remain with him until fully anaesthetized . |
| 10 | Brundle 's trouble had been caused by a split exhaust pipe which overheated a shock absorber . |
| 11 | Well , we were helped initially by a professional fund raiser who was concerned of our lack of money and our lack of funding by er the arts bodies , and gave me this er contact really in the form of Michael Meyer to er arrange and er bring about these three artists . |
| 12 | Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer , recalled the first speech given by a new factory director which could have been given by any Romanian middle-ranking cynical conformist when put in charge of an operation by an arbitrary decision from the top . |
| 13 | The new two-part report in February 1983 avoided direct reference to the Committee constitution that had so bedevilled the 1982 Extraordinary General Meeting , and it restricted its recommendation to clubhouse alterations , and to raising finance by a new bond issue which simultaneously meant redeeming the foundation bonds . |
| 14 | A potential initiating methionine at nucleotide position 11 ( ref. 15 ) , is followed by a putative signal peptide which may be cleaved between Gly26 and Glu27 ( ref.16 ) , leaving 450 residues in the extracellular domain of the mature protein . |
| 15 | But power presided over by a benevolent father figure whose only motive was to do his best for humanity . |
| 16 | With Manchester United due at White Hart Lane on Saturday , Tottenham 's problems are made worse by a lengthening injury list which could soon reach crisis proportions . |
| 17 | In recession large firms concentrate more output within their own plant where economies of scale yield lower average costs compared to labour intensive subcontractors The advantages of a flexible industrial structure was greatly assisted up to the 1970s by a protected home market which gave companies a secure domestic base . |
| 18 | This was met by a diving A. Mayson who showed agility beyond his height-weight ratio to push the ball in for number two . |
| 19 | It will be replaced , most probably , by a modern sports centre which will have no room for cricket . |
| 20 | This we suggested could be handled by a locally-based Task Force which would plan and co-ordinate development . |
| 21 | And I was struck by an enthusiastic review of the programme by a male press critic which really emphasised for me how both political and media discourses are implicated in addressing audiences/voters in patriarchal terms that are outside most of our experience . |
| 22 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 23 | The football League was recently sponsored by a Japanese camera manufacturer whose name had to be repeated when publishing or broadcasting results . |
| 24 | A FRAUD of staggering audacity has allegedly been perpetrated against General Motors by a Long Island dealer who , prosecutors claim , borrowed $1¾ billion ( £1 billion ) from the car company last year alone to finance vehicles ‘ that never existed ’ . |
| 25 | These sockets are followed by a useful tuner output which feeds any external guitar tuner without interrupting the signal path . |
| 26 | ‘ We were also stopped and interrogated by a para-military vigilante force who again wanted to know who we were and what were doing . ’ |
| 27 | Where redemption did go into effect immediately , the peasantry soon found their allotments inadequate , and their land hunger was exacerbated by a massive population increase which averaged about 1.5 per cent per year in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Sometimes this is achieved by a dominant project leader who imposes his own philosophy and then makes many of the decisions leaving only detailing for team members . |
| 29 | Mr Lewin had been shot in the chest by a .32 calibre bullet which missed his heart by two inches , while Mr Howard had been shot in the stomach . |
| 30 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |