Example sentences of "[adv] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 2 | PRESIDENT Bush 's National Security Adviser , Admiral Brent Scowcroft , was greeted warmly by the Chinese leader , Mr Deng Xiaoping , yesterday during an unannounced weekend visit to Beijing which tacitly buried the US ban on high-level governmental contacts with China . |
| 3 | This last task , in fact , had earlier been found to be performed better by the left hand of neurologically intact right and left handers ( Kimura and Vanderwolf 1970 ) . |
| 4 | Another property of the transition series metals is their ability to form chemical bonds where the electrons are provided entirely by the other bonding species ( called ligands ) . |
| 5 | The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector . |
| 6 | Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army . |
| 7 | As the phase circuit model contains no other non-linearities , the fundamental component of phase current is produced entirely by the fundamental component of phase voltage . |
| 8 | As we have already explained , such a change in angle of attack is formed naturally by the conical sailform on a delta , but it needs to be held in place on sharply tapered types . |
| 9 | After being tipped in The Observer as the next Labour leader ( Gadfly , Feb 19 ) he is now favoured apparently by the Prime Minister himself . |
| 10 | An army officer was killed by an ETA car bomb in Salamanca on Sept. 2 ; an off-duty policeman was shot dead in San Sebastián on Sept. 13 ; and a local policeman in Baracaldo near Bilbao , who had once been imprisoned for providing an ETA unit with accommodation , was killed on Oct. 21 apparently by the premature explosion of a bomb which he was handling . |
| 11 | A policeman was shot dead on Nov. 22 on the university campus in Istanbul , apparently by the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Left ( Dev Sol ) . |
| 12 | It was put together by , it was put together by the Chief Fire Officer and the Chief Executive er , not just the Chief Fire Officer . |
| 13 | COLIN Montgomerie was yesterday fined £1,000 and told to get his act together by the European Tour chief executive , Ken Schofield , who was upset by his fellow-Scot 's criticism of the King 's Course at Agadir in last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 14 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 15 | In any case , where the supplier offers competitive or preferential credit terms and loan finance to the customer , the two parties become tied together by the financial packaging of contractual terms between the two parties . |
| 16 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 17 | In each sentence , the subject and object are hinged together by the connecting verb , the verb that shows just what the subject is doing to the object . |
| 18 | An entity MALE and an entity FEMALE may be joined together by the optional relationship married to . |
| 19 | Spain , its two kingdoms brought together by the dual monarchy of the Catholic Kings , Ferdinand and Isabella , and beginning to benefit from the riches of the New World , was emerging out of its previous isolation and preoccupation with internal affairs to become one of the two dominant powers of Europe . |
| 20 | The prison was populated with people of every trade and profession only too pleased to give advice and apply their skills , from all sections of society , thrown together by the common circumstance of overindebtedness and reconciling themselves , some willingly some reluctantly , to its consequences . |
| 21 | This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters . |
| 22 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 23 | I was working then in Palestine , a territory torn apart by Arab and Jew , held together by the British Mandate . |
| 24 | The waters of the world 's oceans are tugged outwards by the gravitational pull of the moon : a hill of water forms in the middle of the ocean when the moon is appropriately positioned above it . |
| 25 | Unlike tea estates , coconut plantations were generally owned by Sri Lankans , especially by the urban élite which had become wealthy by taking advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities . |
| 26 | The marriage , which was a political one , took some time to complete , since bride and groom passed a whole month in Saint-Jean before the ceremony ; but when it happened it was very splendid , with much bestowing of jewels , especially by the wealthy minister , Cardinal Mazarin , whose niece Louis had originally been most anxious to marry but who was opportunely exiled by her uncle in the interests of the nation . |
| 27 | Research evidence supports the view that this relationship is valued highly , especially by the grandparental generation . |
| 28 | Lightning flashed , followed almost instantaneously by the sharp crack of thunder . |
| 29 | Kassem failed to win international support for his claim and was deterred from pursuing it militarily by the swift dispatch of British and Arab League forces to Kuwait [ see pp. 18187-90 ; 18355 ; 18934 ] ; he was toppled in a bloody Baath-Nationalist coup in 1963 , after which the new Iraqi government recognized Kuwaiti sovereignty [ see p. 19668 ] . |
| 30 | No doubt Labour 's answer would be training , but the Government are already pumping billions of pounds of taxpayers ' money into training , in addition to the £20 billion that is spent annually by the private sector . |