Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Petroleum is to cut 9,000 jobs worldwide by 1995 , in addition to 11,500 jobs already due to go by next year . |
| 2 | They tempted the women by treats and presents , and when that failed by psychological means . |
| 3 | Commentators in Washington noted that Bush 's use of the word " irreversible " , to describe the process of change in South Africa , was a stronger form of recognition than that given by European Community member countries . |
| 4 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 5 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 6 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 7 | The honours and ordinary degree courses differ in the number and level of units of study undertaken in Year IV ; candidates for the honours degree are required to follow a more demanding programme than that undertaken by ordinary degree students . |
| 8 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 9 | She was at home on the lonely hills , but she felt guilty surrounded by innocent nature . |
| 10 | The job of the elder to stand by that child and , and see to its Christian nurture thereafter . |
| 11 | The definition of breakdown now adopted is in line with that used by other companies . |
| 12 | One way to test this possibility is to ask direct questions about the incidence of these experiences in housework , and compare them with that reported by other groups of workers . |
| 13 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 14 | The H pylori antibody positivity rate of 39% of young adults in 1969 is somewhat higher than that reported by other surveys and the consistency of our antibody results over the 21 year period that the testing is valid . |
| 15 | A large number of manuscript copies survive , some owned by lay people like John Kilham , a London merchant , and it was printed in 1494 at the command of Lady Margaret Tudor the mother of Henry Vll . |
| 16 | Is it possible to begin to understand the difficulties minority elders face , those of ordinary ageing compounded by extra factors ? |
| 17 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 18 | Well this goes by tortuous route and eventually will get to Newark . |
| 19 | For example , the typical living space available to clients in institutions in this study was 173m 2 shared by 19 people , compared with 31m 2 shared by two to four people in a typical house . |
| 20 | Was this painted by this chap you got hold of or |
| 21 | I thought that progressives , political progressives in this country were prepared to stand by public services and believe in them sufficiently to say this will cost you and we are prepared to put the bill to you because we believe you will pay the bill . |
| 22 | They realize that they have problems and but they seem so willing to stand by each other and the the spirit which I 've noticed is very h |
| 23 | PETER SENIOR stole the limelight at the start of the Australian Masters tournament in Melbourne yesterday , but defending champion Craig Parry signalled he has no intention of relinquishing his crown by opening with a six-under-par 67 to lead by one shot . |
| 24 | Smyth , the 40-year-old former Ryder Cup player , had two eagles in setting a course record 67 to lead by one shot from Argentine Eduardo Romero , Spaniard Miguel Martin , and Swedish newcomer Anders Gillner . |
| 25 | If a character 's words or thoughts are represented , is this done by direct quotation ( direct speech ) , or b some other method ( eg indirect speech , free indirect speech ) ? |
| 26 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 27 | After nearly 10 hours of debate the Federal Assembly on April 22 approved by 144 votes to 33 with 47 abstentions the friendship treaty signed with Germany in February 1992 [ see p. 38777 ] . |
| 28 | The Diet on May 22 approved by 153 votes to four a new treaty on good-neighbourliness and mutual co-operation with Russia to replace the 1948 Treaty of Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance with the former Soviet Union [ see pp. 38444-45 ; 38587 ] . |
| 29 | Approaches are somewhat more teacher-centred and consequently easier to handle by average teachers than parallel material from the Primary Education Improvement Project in the North , but interesting and relevant nevertheless . |
| 30 | The Knesset on Dec. 2 approved by 37 votes to 36 the first reading of an amendment to legislation which would permit meetings between Israeli citizens and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |