Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clones were multiplied in the glasshouse and then transplanted back into patches of the field dominated by the four grass species . |
| 2 | The historic capital of Majorca , with its imposing cathedral and old port , dominated by the 600 year old Bellver Castle . |
| 3 | The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet . |
| 4 | Epstein 's powerful alabaster group of ‘ Jacob and the Angel ’ , loaned by Granada Television , is moved to the centre of the Rotunda where it will be surrounded by the four bronze relief casts of ‘ The Back ’ by Matisse . |
| 5 | South Park , containing a herd of fallow deer , was surrounded by an 8 foot ( 2.5-metre ) deer fence ; North park was divided into areas for cattle grazing by iron fencing and barbed wire . |
| 6 | Of course there would be some non-contentious business , perhaps quite a lot ; but even then , there must also be the reservation that nothing should be disclosed by the one group to the other which might prejudice its case when the business was contentious . |
| 7 | When , in a similar situation in 1947 , the House of Lords threatened to block the steel nationalisation programme of the Labour administration , to the maximum extent permitted by the 1911 Act , that government responded by curbing its powers still further , by forcing through the Parliament Act 1949 . |
| 8 | The conclusion is that Nkrumah would have otherwise won by the two-thirds majority which was the general election pattern . |
| 9 | Dropped by the one section of the establishment which supported it , and adopting policies that ensured that popular opinion would become increasingly hostile , Mosley destroyed whatever small likelihood the BUF had of becoming an effective force in British politics . |
| 10 | Hendry included two superb breaks of 89 to take command , but Doherty , lifted by a 6–1 drubbing of Mike Hallett in his semi-final , hit back with runs of 71 , 60 and 36 . |
| 11 | But Sèvres was rejected by the Turkish nationalist leader , Kemal Ataturk , and was superseded by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that the 1971 Act has been superseded by the 1990 Act , it is likely that this definition will also be extended to include any or all of the following Acts : |
| 13 | THE LABOUR conference voted by a 3-1 majority yesterday to reject moves to commit the party to changing the voting system at parliamentary elections . |
| 14 | The delegates voted by a two-to-one majority to give an assessment of the individual political activity of each politburo member . |
| 15 | Hundreds of couples ignored the new secular ceremony instituted by the 1653 Marriage Act and sought out clergymen to conduct clandestine church weddings for them . |
| 16 | Yet despite all of this , the Immigration Act 1971 continues , albeit in a different form , the system of control instituted by the 1968 Act . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , the jurisdiction to relist , albeit extraordinary and confined , has been characterised as a necessary concomitant of the statutory scheme instituted by the 1968 Act , under which both courts operate . |
| 18 | Work from this unit , in which seven subjects were subjected to a three hour submaximal histamine stimulation preceded by a one hour basal period , did not show any evidence of fade . |
| 19 | Their project was preceded by a two year pilot study , also funded by Northern Regional Health Authority , from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 20 | Wg Cdr Rodley , a distinguished Pathfinder , commanded No 97 Squadron which , together with No 83 Squadron , was hijacked by No 5 Group towards the latter part of the war to provide pathfinding expertise for No 5 Group 's bombing sorties . |
| 21 | Instead , the amendment simply deleted the proviso excluding cinema films from the range of publications caught by the 1959 Act , which already extended to anything ‘ containing or embodying material to be read or looked at or both , any sound record , and any film or other record of a picture or pictures ’ . |
| 22 | If so , the clause is not caught by the 1976 Order , Cavendish Woodhouse Ltd. v. Manley ( 1984 D.C. ) . |
| 23 | The ownership of the islands was not clarified by the 1951 peace Treaty , and this problem has continued to obstruct close relations between the two nations . |
| 24 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 25 | In the event , the resolution was carried by a two-to-one majority . |
| 26 | Thereafter , the long-term future of the game could be resolved by a 10-10-10-10 formula which would stimulate interest at the lower end of the league as well as at the top . |
| 27 | Martyn Lilley was sickened by the three month reduction in Gooch 's prison term . |
| 28 | On Oct. 10 the California Supreme Court upheld by a six-to-one majority a term-limit initiative , Proposition 140 , which voters had narrowly approved in November 1990 . |
| 29 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 30 | The monoclonal antibodies were applied by a three stage indirect immunoperoxidase technique described elsewhere . |