Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just done her a return kindness by getting invitations for her and her mother , to the Alumnus of the Year award given by Royal Bank as holder of Chair of European Governmental Studies . |
| 2 | Direct employment covers all those activities undertaken by Scotch Whisky companies , who , to a greater or lesser extent , are engaged in : |
| 3 | By the outbreak of World War II rather more was being made of the ceremony itself , but it would appear that the reasons given by working class couples heading for the altar were still somewhat pragmatic . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , ill luck , in his case compounded by ill judgement , dogs the unsuccessful , and the only way into the sport , for some who should never be in it , is around the less successful teams . |
| 5 | In the London case at least , this recovery can no doubt be attributed in part to the strength of its economy , the support given by central government to the Docklands redevelopment and other schemes , and the associated attraction of young professionals back to the more central parts of the city . |
| 6 | Particularly in a large organization , reclassification can be a major exercise , although it can be facilitated by the support given by computer-based catalogue records . |
| 7 | It would be a tragedy if the use of violence or any confusion introduced by irregular elements on the picket lines were to divide and deflect the support given by responsible trade unionists all over the country aimed at achieving an early and a peaceful solution to this problem . |
| 8 | The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time . |
| 9 | In no circumstances can you set your net on a field inhabited by any farm animals , for these can panic and run into the standing nets — not only destroying the evening 's sport but also destroying the nets . |
| 10 | the principle of interpreting ambiguous words against the person who used them , so as not to encourage employers to mislead by deliberate vagueness . |
| 11 | It offered , too , a way of testing hypotheses and theoretical predictions by providing a method for detecting whether patterns hypothesised by some theory were , in fact , supportive . |
| 12 | They often went to the park to sit by that lake . ’ |
| 13 | Next consider a unit step function delayed by some time as depicted in figure 11.5(a) and denote it by . |
| 14 | A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section . |
| 15 | Where two vehicles collide and one then suffers further damage by striking an immobile object ( but not a parked car ) all damage sustained by that vehicle shall be taken into consideration when applying the Partial Indemnity Clause . |
| 16 | The harmony , with its touch of modality , the monochrome orchestration , and the hint of ‘ organum ’ parallelisms , add to the almost monastic austerity evoked : Naturally , in other accompaniments formed by harmonized doubling , the harmony and orchestration can be made to create other atmospheres — ; colourful , lush and rich , or harsh and cold , according to the tone colours used and the quality of the harmony . |
| 17 | Brawling has often been a pastime favoured by certain film stars ; normally those who happen to drink a lot as well . |
| 18 | Eclipse drake distinguished by yellow bill ; duck 's is greenish , juvenile 's reddish . |
| 19 | National-scale data , which should be treated with caution , illustrate that the number of passenger-kilometres travelled by private vehicles increased from 60,000 million to 380,000 million per annum between 1951 and 1977 , while the number of passenger-kilometres travelled by public service road vehicles declined from 80,000 million to 50,000 million . |
| 20 | It looks closely at the range of policies developed by local government and in so doing assesses the relative responsibilities of various professional and political groups for their initiation and enactment . |
| 21 | This figure is in agreemen t with other informati on about housewor k hours gathered by other researche rs : Table 5.4 contains a comparis on of results from a range of different studies . |
| 22 | The subsequent development of state contributory systems of income maintenance , although to some extent building on the systems of mutual support developed by some trade unions and friendly societies , which were informed by a collective ideology and em-bodied the concept of the right to support , has also been constrained by the desire to maintain male work incentives . |
| 23 | Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded . |
| 24 | Last month 16 Mac employees gained a food hygiene certificate following a course organised by environmental health officers from Gateshead Council . |
| 25 | One of these is the Runefang carried by all Elector Counts , and the other is the Dragon Bow of Ostland , a magic bow whose arrows are tipped with dragon horn . |
| 26 | Although the cable has by this stage disappeared , the cells in the mound still contain a great deal of filamentous actin in a disorganized arrangement ( Fig. 4 h ) . |
| 27 | It read : ‘ Not only is debt partly responsible for the slump in commodity prices ; it also devours the money earned by Third World exports . |
| 28 | The long-term significance of CCT may be greater , therefore , than the relatively small proportion of contracts won by private enterprise would suggest , and certainly more important than the limited financial savings at first achieved . |
| 29 | This procedure would best suit states torn by civil strife which is fuelled by the support of the superpowers ( or China ) for rival political or military factions or by the involvement of superpower ‘ proxy ’ forces . |
| 30 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |