Example sentences of "[noun pl] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a charming display of good manners by a suave middle-aged man to an attractive woman . |
| 2 | Community-wide action involving the doctrine of civil liability has been taken in the area of product safety and consumer protection , but is concerned only with losses by a private consumer . |
| 3 | I was pleased to find that a number of pamphlets on the town had been published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a keen amateur local historian . |
| 4 | If a computer spends a significant portion of its time in carrying out a particular sequence of steps , then performance could be improved by replacing these steps by a single instruction implemented as a microprogram . |
| 5 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 6 | Such was the frail nature of the Belorussian working class , cut off from its metropolitan Russian brothers by a broad sea of peasants . |
| 7 | Both could be kept within bounds by a severe pruning in early spring . |
| 8 | France , for example , facing recession and rising unemployment , has seen European neighbours that do a quarter of its trade devalue their currencies by a real 10% since last September . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) 5.202 ( as amended ) of the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 prescribes the procedure for the making of bye-laws by a local authority . |
| 10 | After she had given Miguel time to pay the bills and get away , she retraced her steps and found herself a table at a café in an arcade in one of the ornamental squares by a pretty fountain . |
| 11 | The condition is characterised between crises by a chronic haemolytic state with jaundice and a relatively constant haemoglobin level of 7–8g/dl . |
| 12 | We are concerned , however , to learn from various Territorial Army representatives that the Ministry of Defence is considering cutting TA and other reserves by a disproportionate amount compared with the regulars . |
| 13 | To achieve this goal , the NSR Company ( 1978 ) Limited , had promoted the formation of The Churnet Valley Railway plc , primarily to raise funds by a public ordinary share issue . |
| 14 | Membranes must let in relatively few Ca ions to change local concentrations by a large percentage ; such changes can thus connect stimuli to responses with great speed and sensitivity . |
| 15 | The Mesopotamian Jews were still united to the Palestinian Jews by a common language , though the Aramaic spoken by Palestinian Jews must have presented considerable differences from the Aramaic spoken by Mesopotamian Jews . |
| 16 | From somewhere in the capital , by our intrepid reporter : The dog dirt injected into my pulsing thighs by a beautiful buck-naked half-robot half-Samoan woman was finally starting to take effect . |
| 17 | Hence strong electoral performances by a Marxist or fascist party committed to social transformation may well precipitate a terminal crisis for liberal democratic regimes , even if these parties fall short of achieving an absolute majority of votes or parliamentary representation . |
| 18 | Not only will such a division of labour approximately halve the size of the lexicon ( by accounting for different interpretations of words by a general external principle ) , it will also immeasurably simplify the logical base of semantics — the word some can be equated directly with the existential quantifier in predicate logic ( while the reading " some and not all " taken as basic leads to serious internal contradictions : see Horn , 1973 and Chapter 3 below ) . |
| 19 | Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person . |
| 20 | In the middle of the lawn was a cedar-tree , and , attached to one of its branches by a knotted rope , was a child 's swing , idling above the flowers as the rain guttered out and another squall of sunlight came in from the west . |
| 21 | The plan for a six-week display in a buffet at Newcastle upon Tyne 's Central Station was derailed after a duty manager looked at the pictures by a French photographer at a preview . |
| 22 | The Unwins who had their photographs taken each side of their panting winner , now covered across the shoulders by a long , triumphant blanket of flowers . |
| 23 | Awed critical voices salute his very occasional emergence in print , and invocations of Raymond Carver , Peter Taylor and Ellen Gilchrist are silenced upon reverent lips by a mere mention of his name . |
| 24 | On the other hand its comparative fragility makes the risk of solicitation of clients by a former employee the more serious . |
| 25 | If your pension is £2 a week or less , it will normally be paid once a year in arrears by a crossed order which you can pay into a bank or building society account . |
| 26 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 27 | Apparently , the tow given to old whalers by a harpooned whale was known as the ‘ Nantucket Sleighride ’ ; I haul back on the line , release the snow hook and take a similar ride . |
| 28 | The radiation of the African great apes and man represents a set of adaptations by a common stock , the Dryopithecine apes , to differing ecological conditions . |
| 29 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 30 | A burst was defined as a group of two or more contractions separated from preceding and following contractions by a short silent period of at least 10 seconds . |