Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb pp] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foral institutions , which preserved the status of the peasant , degraded merchants and lawyers into second-class citizens : seen from the towns , rustic democracy appeared an oligarchy rigged by rural notables . |
| 2 | Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance . |
| 3 | The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques . |
| 4 | On Oct. 26 the High Court dismissed an action brought by four leaders of the opposition Movement for Freedom and Justice on Oct. 8 , which had attempted to prevent Flt. -Lt . |
| 5 | In March 1989 the USA had voiced its concern that Egypt was developing a chemical weapons plant with Swiss help at the Abu Zaabal military complex north of Cairo , an allegation denied by Egyptian officials ( see also p. 37224 ) . |
| 6 | Cooke notes that this equation of incorporation with public service continued into the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , with the general theory of corporate form still dominated by ‘ the concept of the corporation as a public body , an institution created by specific act of Parliament or the Crown for purposes approved as being in the national interest ’ . |
| 7 | However , he argues that it is an anomaly explained by social pressure . |
| 8 | And if you have an industry run by cautious fools , it is almost worse than more obvious political censorship . |
| 9 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 10 | Darwin 's theory played a major catalytic role in converting the world to evolutionism , but historians have begun to realize that our conventional image of the ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ is an oversimplification inspired by modern biologists ' enthusiasm for the concept of natural selection . |
| 11 | On this definition , the task of the EC is to continue to serve as the chief engine of economic growth in Europe , an engine characterised by high performance , high output , high quality and ( agriculture excepted ) low running costs . |
| 12 | I feel sure this is an error caused by logistical difficulties , but I would be most grateful if you could clarify the exact current position with regard to your determined action to have this important section of road removed from the proposed Network . |
| 13 | Ayer identifies here an error made by some philosophers . |
| 14 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 15 | The significant development is that ITED is changing from a centrally run project to an initiative driven by individual businesses . |
| 16 | An initiative instigated by Inter-Continental Hotels has brought together ten major hotel groups to provide individual hotels with a detailed environment manual . |
| 17 | The manager who does read the latest circular , the latest information pack , the latest draft of organizational requirements in the privacy of the weekend at home has already gone through the experience either of having an appetite whetted by prior knowledge or of a palate blunted by a flavour which is already old . |
| 18 | Perhaps the best example of an adaptation maintained by weak selection ( s 10 -5 ) is the bias towards use of the most efficiently translated triplet codon , seen for some loci in Escherichia coli , yeast and Drosophila . |
| 19 | On its fiftieth anniversary in 1940 the BDDA therefore still retained its traditional image of an organisation run by dedicated volunteers . |
| 20 | This argument proposes that some workers operate within an environment dominated by low wages , high unemployment and turnover rates , with limited opportunities for mobility . |
| 21 | For the sake of prudence in an age afflicted by mass unemployment , his parents urged him to study practically , and for a year in Vienna Karajan studied engineering , before decamping to his real vocation , music . |
| 22 | It was an age dominated by new ideas , new discoveries and particularly by mysticism based on love . |
| 23 | In an age mesmerised by quantitative values — ‘ big is beautiful ’ , ‘ small is beautiful ’ — he projects another , and immensely more important aspect : kind is beautiful . |
| 24 | All that has gone before in this book has been based on the premise that a worshipable ‘ god ’ is not the creator of the universe , but is an entity extracted by human intelligence from the evolutionary story . |
| 25 | There is then the danger of incoherence ; is it consistent to provide an argument justified by normal standards of evidence , to the effect that those standards are inappropriate ? |
| 26 | An island surrounded by 165 kilometres of wire and wall complete with barren expanses , blinding searchlights , war dogs , and sinister guard towers . |
| 27 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 28 | Rustenburg when John was a boy was a small town , or large village , in an area inhabited by many races . |
| 29 | In the scenario he outlines , an area affected by radioactive releases is determined , the population within that area is allocated to reception areas ( with capacity constraints ) , evacuation routes are identified and traffic restrictions implemented . |
| 30 | And if a Palestinian Arab fled his or her home during the 1948 fighting for an area controlled by Arab forces — even though the individual did not in any way participate in the war — Israeli law effectively deprived the owners of their homes and lands . |