Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results of examinations are sent to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates . |
| 2 | Results of examinations are sent out to Local Examination Secretaries , followed in due course by certificates/diplomas for successful candidates . |
| 3 | Sloppy play by Spurs let Regis release Yorke to make it 3–2 with a shot across Walker . |
| 4 | Against a background of rising unemployment and deepening recession , blamed to a large extent on economic mismanagement by Tories in London , some feared John Major 's staunch defence of the Union could only drive more voters to Labour and the Liberal Democrats , both promising a Scottish Parliament . |
| 5 | His own grand plan for them , as O'Boyle had heard in his ‘ secret briefing ’ , was a sort of wholesale , slow martyrdom , based loosely both on the Alamo and on Khe Sanh , a last-ditch stand by Marines in Vietnam . |
| 6 | Co-operation was often subordinated to the more important task of insulating local Russian relief staff and the general population from political contamination by foreigners . |
| 7 | In real animals they are produced at the whole-body level by interactions between cells . |
| 8 | For example , the recent introduction of seat belt legislation in the UK was at least in part due to persistent lobbying by sections of the community , including the medical profession . |
| 9 | Öhman ( 1983 ) reaches almost exactly this conclusion on the basis of formally equivalent experiments investigating conditioning of the human skin conductance response , as do Svendsrød and Ursin ( 1974 ) in their analysis of the acquisition of a conditioned emotional response by rats . |
| 10 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 11 | The USA first threatened to call off talks with the PLO in the immediate aftermath of the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 12 | There is also substantial private investment by employers in training for their staff which the Government encourage through the manpower training scheme . |
| 13 | During that winter , the body was renovated at the Blackpool Technical College by apprentices . |
| 14 | Orrell , who have not yet given up hope of winning the Courage League Championship despite last week 's narrow defeat by Wasps , will have Shaun Gallagher back in the line-up for Monday 's fixture at Harlequins . |
| 15 | Prompt action by firemen prevented thousands of pounds of damage to computers in the part of the office used by staff of The Northern Junior Sports magazine . |
| 16 | Staff Side chairman Paul Forster has expressed union concern at the decision ‘ to break the agreements with staff on pay and conditions in the face of strong opposition by employees . ’ |
| 17 | Captain Cook discovered New South Wales in 1770 and in that same year , hack in Britain , Lord North became Prime Minister but strong opposition by Colonialists in America to the imposition of tea-tax , developed in 1773 , which led to the Boston Harbour incident in the following year , and eventually to the American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1782 . |
| 18 | I have often heard this said as a last-ditch attempt by adults to find consolation or uplift from a dreich church service or one in which the sermon was the dominant factor and was long-winded or incomprehensible or both . |
| 19 | Already , for example , birds of prey which are saved from accidental poisoning by pesticides are being deliberately shot , trapped or poisoned as their numbers increase once more . |
| 20 | One other element however was essential to provide the dynamic for righteous action by evangelicals ; certainty of God 's government was combined with conviction of free human will and agency . |
| 21 | One by one , the small pieces were dropped overboard with due ceremony by members of the party led , very appropriately , by Peter Noble and Brian Scott . |
| 22 | Retrospective appraisal by clients has already been rejected as a lawyer-influenced criterion . |
| 23 | Tasks of this kind may need extensive practice by children with defective vision , since using their vision for learning may present difficulties in terms of blurring and distortion or a reduced or interrupted visual field . |
| 24 | The earliest recorded work of these artists is in the shrine of These us , built or rebuilt by Cimon after he brought back the hero 's bones from Skyros in 473 ; and there is a detailed description by Pausanias of Polygnotos 's two murals in a lesche ( clubhouse ) dedicated at Delphi by the people of Knidos , perhaps after the liberation of the Asia Minor Greeks from Persia in Cimon 's campaigns , which culminated in the victory at the Eurymedon in 468 . |
| 25 | Further , its involvement made more likely the necessary free provision by solicitors of their services . |
| 26 | In some ways the difficulty was not some ministers ' demanding social solutions to social problems above individual solutions , but the underlying extent of the cultural absorption by Nonconformists discussed above . |
| 27 | Sir Mark stressed that ‘ SERC 's first priority was its direct support by grants and studentships ’ . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 29 | A further factor which would tend to make such clauses reasonable would be adequate protection by warranties in the final express contract documents . |
| 30 | This movement was a direct response by intellectuals , both men and women , to the failure of the community under occupation to translate sumud , the idea of steadfastness , into a more active concept of taking control of as many areas of human existence as possible under occupation . |