Example sentences of "[noun prp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 2 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 3 | The sequence of accidents through which the hero has to steer his suffering way to achieve fame and fortune ( even to the extent , in Peter Simple , of years incarcerated in Bedlam by a wicked uncle ) must be viewed in the context of society nearly two centuries ago ; even so , these are organised , contrived and deliberately sensational plots which serve to contain the sprawling , spanking reality of Marryat 's detail . |
| 4 | In a letter penned on behalf of the Archbishop of Rouen by a famous stylist , Peter of Blois , Eleanor was reminded that it was a wife 's duty to submit , a reminder backed up by the threat of ecclesiastical sanctions . |
| 5 | Ten giant squirrels were imported from Indonesia by a British zoo , the animals were stuffed into narrow plastic tubes no bigger than their bodies and stacked in a wooden crate . |
| 6 | President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat began the first visit to the United States by a Mongolian head of state on Jan. 22 . |
| 7 | Professor Kanter , who was recently voted one of the 100 most important women in the United States by a leading business magazine , does not dispute that the agenda for change is based around the so-called ‘ softer ’ values . |
| 8 | The Frenchman , in a Toyota , led McRae 's Subaru by a mere six seconds after five stages . |
| 9 | His debut had been The Subject Was Roses for MGM in 1968 , the film of the Frank D. Gilroy play which , along with a plum Broadway role , was plucked away from Dustin by a pyrotechnical fondue pot . |
| 10 | By a number of changes we reduced the emerging cost of SERPS by an eventual £13 billion , but the crucial part of the proposals were the new options we gave to the public . |
| 11 | But it 's still able to undercut the CRX by a useful margin . |
| 12 | One of the bright spots in that black year for Republicans was an inspired television address on behalf of Goldwater by a rising star in the party and one of southern California 's own , Ronald Reagan . |
| 13 | If the danger increases , Israel may seek an easing of tension with Syria by a new agreement based upon the abandonment of the Golan Heights on condition of permanent demilitarization . |
| 14 | Some of the images were traced to an account by an author on Kashmir , and some to another one of Florida by a different author . |
| 15 | The Americans now await a final version of the Yavlinsky plan , at present being drafted at Harvard by a joint Soviet-American team of academics . |
| 16 | Moreover , activation of mGluRs can induce LTP by a thapsigargin-sensitive mechanism , even if NMDA receptors are blocked . |
| 17 | The detailed programme of austerity measures , produced as part of these reforms and announced in March 1990 was abandoned in April following protests and replaced in May by a new economic recovery plan [ see pp. 37307 ; 37445 ] . |
| 18 | Quickly picked up near Cape Town by a passing ship , Swift , in the confidence of sealed orders and of his own determination , persuades the captain to divert his passage to track down the Welfare . |
| 19 | But it is believed that a takeover of Paribas by a foreign entity seems politically improbable . |
| 20 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 21 | Given the divisiveness of religious opinion , heightened in England by a civil war , it would be expedient to avoid any issues that might jeopardize a union of scientific interests . |
| 22 | She was accompanied to England by a young page — his name does not concern us . |
| 23 | However , having been born and raised in England by an Irish father and an English mother I believe that I understand English attitudes quite well . |
| 24 | But Kambli did beat the previous highest made against England by an Indian , Gundappa Vishwanath 's 222 in 1981-82 . |
| 25 | The visit to France had been preceded in January by a brief stopover in the United Kingdom en route to the UN Security Council summit [ see p. 38744 ] . |
| 26 | The League officially relocated to Cairo on Jan. 1 , 1991 , and the approval of Meguid by a unanimous vote of the Arab League Council was interpreted as a move towards reconciliation among the 21 member countries . |
| 27 | Before leaving Moscow for Lithuania Gorbachev met on Jan. 4 and 6 with the leaderships of both the CPL and the rival " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( created in December by a breakaway faction supporting unity with the CPSU — ibid . ) . |
| 28 | A workshop on the interpretation of synthetic aperture radar imagery in the form of stereostrips and mosaics , was conducted in July by a remote sensing specialist from BGS . |
| 29 | In addition to the securities scandal , the Japanese financial establishment was embarrassed during July by a separate scandal involving the Marubeni Corporation , and bank scandals including a huge illegal loans scheme at the Fuji bank . |
| 30 | Perhaps the Private Eye story hinting at a takeover of Barts by a private concern is not as farfetched as Tony Delamothe suggests . |