Example sentences of "[noun sg] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness . |
| 2 | A minority shareholder may override the transfer provisions in a company 's Articles of Association by a successful application for an order under s459 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 3 | After a minute or two Crane appeared leading a horse by a broken rein . |
| 4 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 5 | Such upwarps consist of broad swells running parallel to the coast and are in most cases flanked on their oceanward side by a great escarpment . |
| 6 | Strathbeg is bordered on its landward side by a vast , derelict , World War II airfield ; deserted , pock-marked runways lead to the base of a Ministry of Defence 900-foot-high radio mast , surrounded by ancillary buildings . |
| 7 | In the centre was the velour package of diamonds , framed on each side by a half-pound block of tacky beige substance . |
| 8 | multiply that side by a hundred and twenty so we must do the same on the other side of the equation . |
| 9 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 10 | It appears to be bounded on the west side by a considerable ditch running down the hill slope . |
| 11 | Altair is flanked to either side by a fainter star , Gamma or Tarazed and Beta ( 3.7 ) ; Gamma is a K-type star , very clearly orange when seen in binoculars . |
| 12 | The patio was bounded on the road side by a high flint wall which , to the south and east , curved to little more than four feet to give an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea . |
| 13 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 14 | Crawford played Constable Gough , a young policeman who is sent to a boarding-house to investigate a revenge murder by a jilted girl . |
| 15 | In its place would be a sentencing discretion , which judges would use , in many cases , to mark the relative heinousness of the murder by a determinate prison sentence . |
| 16 | British prime minister , in whose murder by a lunatic Nupkins sees a possible augury of his own fate . |
| 17 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 18 | In addition , an elevator for discharging grain from ships was completed on the South side of Edinburgh Dock and connected to the warehouse by a large conveyor band erected on brackets hung from steel principals of a long iron shed . |
| 19 | An application to join the coalition by a Sarawak-based party , Persatuan Rakyat Malaysian Sarawak ( Permas — the Malaysian Sarawak Party ) , was rejected and the decision to admit the Terengganu-based Parti Ikatan Masyarakat Islam ( Islamic Alliance Party ) was deferred . |
| 20 | It comes from an American baseball player named Thompson , purchased at colossal expense by a Japanese team , who , when he arrived , turned out to be a complete dud , incapable even of hitting the ball . |
| 21 | Government plans ( i ) to privatize state companies ( beginning with the projected sale of the state airline , Viasa , and the state telephone company , CANTV ) ; ( ii ) to cut subsides to the state sector ; and ( iii ) to open up the economy to foreign investment by a sharp reduction in tariffs , were also deeply unpopular and strongly opposed by trade unions . |
| 22 | The £700 million investment was the largest single investment by a Japanese company in Europe . |
| 23 | One of the issues that delegates expressed reservations about was the potential cost of the scheme — ‘ putting standards on water will require investment by a wide variety of people ’ , said Chave . |
| 24 | I am pleased also to announce a total of more than £6.5 million industrial investment by a further four companies , either expanding , modernising or setting up operations in Wales . |
| 25 | It could be a joint development or a pricey investment by a third party . |
| 26 | Comparing this point in the economic cycle with the same point 10 years ago , during that period manufacturing output has risen by a quarter , manufacturing investment by a third , manufacturing productivity by a half and manufacturing exports by three quarters . |
| 27 | Instead , they wiped the value of pensioner 's savings with rampant inflation , then they made water a priority , and then they cut the capital investment by a third . |
| 28 | Elsewhere in Britain a new type of museum developed in America to view the wrecks of sunken ships in situ may be used for the 30,000 ton ‘ Lusitania ’ torpedoed off the Irish coast by a German U-boat in 1915 with the loss of 1,198 lives . |
| 29 | The methods used for controlling debate are the power to apply the closure by a simple majority , though normally the majority must consist of a hundred members ; the power to send bills upstairs for their committee stage to a standing committee and the power , when bills are taken on the floor of the House or in committee , to impose a guillotine . |
| 30 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |