Example sentences of "an [noun] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law 8 , Advantage states ‘ The referee shall not whistle for an infringement during play which is followed by an advantage gained by the offending team … a mere opportunity to gain advantage is not sufficient ’ . |
| 2 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 3 | Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State . |
| 4 | In 1915 , in recognition of her early biochemical work , she received the Ellen Richards prize , an award presented by the American Association of University Women for outstanding research by a woman scientist . |
| 5 | ‘ There is an award sponsored by the European Commission for companies throughout the Community , which was won this year by Rank Xerox . |
| 6 | I can not but feel , though it may be an illusion induced by the delectable drug of understanding , that you must in some way share my eagerness that further conversation could be mutually profitable that we must meet . |
| 7 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 8 | Theophylline probably causes redistribution of potassium into cells at the expense of the extracellular pool , an effect reinforced by the increased catecholamine response and mediated by an increased intracellular 3,5-cAMP concentration , hyperinsulinism , and hyperglycaemia . |
| 9 | It is a bleak and somewhat chilly world which Eliot has constructed , an effect emphasized by the dispassionate way in which human emotion and human suffering are described . |
| 10 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 11 | Ltd. an action brought by the local authority under s.100 to obtain the abatement of obnoxious odours , raised the defence of best practicable means , and Brabin , J. in his judgement said obiter , ‘ I do not find the meaning of sections 92 to 100 of the 1936 Act ambiguous . |
| 12 | It is well established that a public law decision by a local authority may be open to challenge by way of defence or counterclaim to an action brought by the local authority in the High Court or the county court , notwithstanding the fact that if the defendant had sought to begin the proceedings he would have had to do so by way of judicial review : see Wandsworth London Council v. Winder [ 1985 ] A.C. 461 . |
| 13 | The context for social workers comes from the referral of an old person to the agency , an action taken by the individual him/herself , or by a relative , neighbour , or another professional worker . |
| 14 | For independent advice where the adviser is making a selection from all the products on offer , the investor may prefer to seek an adviser authorised by the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association . |
| 15 | The new government also agreed to sell the beleaguered State Bank of Victoria to the Commonwealth Bank , an institution owned by the federal government . |
| 16 | The Groupe Consultatif des Associations d'Actuaires des Pays des Communautés Européennes is an Association established by the National Associations of Actuaries in the EC . |
| 17 | Managing his colleagues and steering them to a compromise between the Fund 's tough conditions for a loan and those on the Left who favoured a siege economy as an alternative to rescue by the international banking community obliged Callaghan to practise traditional Cabinet government in the classic mould . |
| 18 | From June 1991 until Dec. 4 , 1991 , the DP had participated , as the main opposition party , in an administration dominated by the former communist party , the Socialist Party of Albania ( SPA ) . |
| 19 | As the party of property the Conservatives had to cope with an electorate dominated by the propertyless , the advent of British socialism and the apparent threat to property posed by a reform-minded Liberal party . |
| 20 | The agreed bill levelled out the tax " bubble " , an anomaly created by the 1986 Tax Reform Act . |
| 21 | It is an epic dominated by the central figure of Moses . |
| 22 | Those who came from more or less stable families were generally restrained from the wilder flights of liberty by parental influence , an influence reinforced by the economic advantages of continuing to live at home . |
| 23 | But by combining SkottiS — an exchange planned by the two countries ' Music Information Centres — the scale of this year 's festivities was unprecedented . |
| 24 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |
| 25 | To begin with , I pay tribute to an intervention made by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-West ( Mr. Budgen ) who , earlier today , rightly pointed out that in a democracy Parliament should be expected to debate a measure such as this in a sane and sensible fashion . |
| 26 | I will give you an example of what one might be confronted with in the future from , from a piece from the Environment Committee in the House of Commons ' Report on Coastal Zone Planning and Management and it says here , we fail to see what is impractical about treating the seabed as submerged land an opinion shared by the Royal Town Planning Institute no less and if planning authorities can deal with issues like public rights of way , aggregate extraction multiple use on land , they should be able to cope with rights of navigation and extraction of sea . |
| 27 | The opinion of the child that morning , and of Timothy Gedge , was an opinion shared by the greater part of Dynmouth : there were the shreds of a traditional respect for his calling , and then impatience , occasionally contempt . |
| 28 | Under an amnesty agreed by the National Assembly on Feb. 7 by 76 votes to four , the government on Feb. 9 freed 1,151 contras and 39 former National Guards and asserted that there were no political prisoners . |
| 29 | Earlier George Robertson , Labour 's front-bench spokesman on European affairs , announced that the Opposition would officially support an amendment tabled by the Western Isles MP , Calum MacDonald . |
| 30 | It is thought unlikely that he will appear at an event attended by the international Press . |