Example sentences of "[verb] by the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dreadful events took place in the south of Sri Lanka , which is dominated by the majority Sinhalese population . |
| 2 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 3 | But here , in the heart of rural Stirlingshire and surrounded by the party faithful , he is in good form . |
| 4 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 5 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 6 | French coal production is likely to fall by nearly 40% by 1990 and to halve by the year 2000 . |
| 7 | The company estimates that wind power alone could supply at least 10 per cent of Britain 's energy needs by the year 2025 . |
| 8 | ‘ A Whiter Shade of Pale ’ , launched during Art Cologne in November and on show until 19 December , is Kittelman 's challenge to the ‘ over organised audience ’ attracted by the art fair , an attempt to present in a commercial gallery the type of exhibition more usually seen in a Kunsthalle . |
| 9 | The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ . |
| 10 | It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund . |
| 11 | It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund . |
| 12 | Project topics should be organised by the tutor prior to presentation so that a logical sequence can be developed , aiding discussion by the total group . |
| 13 | These may include events organised by the school such as regular parents ' evenings , careers evenings , prize-givings , Compact meetings or socials . |
| 14 | The biggest event organised by the Trust this year took place over the weekend of 23 and 24 June when the countryside was brought to Salford in Greater Manchester . |
| 15 | David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich . |
| 16 | On Jan. 8 President Menem had publicly claimed that the latest wave of corruption allegations surrounding his government [ for allegations during 1991 see pp. 37959 ; 38144 ; 38674 ] were part of a smear campaign organised by the opposition Radical Civic Union party ( UCR ) and a malicious press . |
| 17 | That lay on the east side of Russell Road , now partly occupied by the Sauchiebank Industrial Estate . |
| 18 | The defendant lived with his brother for two and a half years in property owned by the plaintiff local authority of which the brother was a secure tenant under the Housing Act 1985 . |
| 19 | Timber is the fastest growing import underlined by the arrival last month of the largest timber carrier ever to dock at Sharpness . |
| 20 | My Lords , for about two and a half years the defendant , Mr. Gary Thomas , made his home with his brother Webster in a council house 29 , Juniper Court , Morris Road , London , E.15 which belonged to and was let by the respondent local authority the Waltham Forest London Borough Council ( ‘ the plaintiffs ’ ) to Webster . |
| 21 | Population growth in the steep-sloped areas of these countries is expected to increase by the year 2000 , by between 40 and 59 per cent in many areas ( e.g. Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras ) . |
| 22 | In countries where state-owned enterprises have typically been scattered among different economic sectors alongside private capital , the conventional form of public enterprise directly responsible to a ministry has been supplemented by the state holding company ; for example , IRI in Italy , and INI and INH ( the oil and gas sector holding company ) in Spain . |
| 23 | Pétain 's organising genius was ably supplemented by the engineer responsible for transportation to Verdun : Major Richard . |
| 24 | Outside the polling station were bundles of legal ballot papers which had been discarded by the Congress I thugs . |
| 25 | The graph plots the relative fluorescence , emitted by the indicator fluo-3 , as a function of time . |
| 26 | Considerable rises in the number of adult patients are forecast by the year 2000 . |
| 27 | There is also the argument that the fathers of children may kill whilst overwhelmed by the stress consequent upon the arrival of a new child , and they should be not be left outside the law of infanticide . |
| 28 | As a result , according to the 1985-based projections ( OPCS , 1988 ) , while population increase of 15 per cent or more are expected by the year 2001 in some counties ( e.g. Buckinghamshire , Wiltshire , Cornwall , Shropshire ) , Merseyside stands to lose over 9 per cent and Cleveland and Tyne and Wear both over 5 per cent of their 1985 numbers . |
| 29 | The loss would then be carried by the person responsible for the defect . |
| 30 | Previous studies by out own group showed that changes in the dietary intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids may also modify the pattern of eicosanoids synthesised by the rat gastrointestinal mucosa . |