Example sentences of "[adj] by [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a more sophisticated sense it means that the level of unemployment ‘ is not controllable by variations in demand-management ’ [ ibid. , 96 ] . |
| 2 | But there are fears that the MPC could wind up staffed by members of France 's closely knit financial elite , whose pals roam the corridors of political power . |
| 3 | The most remarkable feature of these houses is , of course , the mechanical clock , still with its original mechanism created in 1410 by Mikuláš of Kadaň and perfected by Master Hanuš in 1490 . |
| 4 | But if we begin from situations in which the community does not find it necessary to impose standards , we find , in the very simplest cases , full confidence and agreement in evaluating , untroubled by worries over differences of taste . |
| 5 | Although there was plenty of loutish and rough behaviour in public by groups of juveniles , there was always a counterbalancing influence within male culture . |
| 6 | Some are funded by grants-in-aid ( such as the Training Agency ) ; some by statutory levy ( such as the Horserace Betting Levy Board ) ; some by annual grant ( such as the Health Education Council ) ; some by departmental vote ( such as the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work ) ; some by drawing on the National Loan Fund ( such as New Town Corporations ) ; and some by charges for services ( such as the Agricultural Marketing Boards ) ( Rhodes , 1988 , p. 129 ) . |
| 7 | Haig and Kendall look anxious and quickly explain that at night the watch is self-contained : they work uninterrupted by calls from headquarters . |
| 8 | I think young couples should enjoy their privacy uninterrupted by cauldrons of soup . ’ |
| 9 | Gathered in a city stadium , they declared themselves unconvinced by promises of improvements made by senior officials despatched from Bucharest to address them following warning strikes on Aug. 20 organized by the independent local Infratirea ( " Fraternity " ) trade union federation . |
| 10 | There is also a new provision which treats voting rights exercisable by trustees as voting rights exercisable by a member of the individual 's family . |
| 11 | The carpet beneath her feet was , she thought , an antique Persian , its deep blues and maroons softened and made even lovelier by decades of use . |
| 12 | Power is legitimate authority in that it is generally accepted as just and proper by members of society as a whole . |
| 13 | If the poor have their faces ground into a mud made sharp and painful by slivers of diamond and chunks of ruby , whose fault is that ? |
| 14 | It was built in 1877 by Saundersons of Louth and has six patent sails ( the most advanced type ) . |
| 15 | FOLLOWING the lifting of EEC trade barriers , light dues [ a service charge paid by vessels calling at ports in the UK to cover the costs of lighthouses , etc. ] previously payable by vessels to Trinity House , will no longer be collected by HM Customs . |
| 16 | Permission was given to Coral Estates Ltd. by planners at East Hampshire District Council last week . |
| 17 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 18 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 19 | These Acts make provision for two types of surrogacy , the first by a regent , the second by counsellors of state . |
| 20 | You have the two hands of five fingers each , honed and hardened by years of typewriter and keyboard pounding . |
| 21 | By the end of the nineteenth century the Guernsey was described as native to Alderney , Sark and Herm as well as Guernsey and was still kept pure by restrictions on imports . |
| 22 | Masked by obscurities of paint — |
| 23 | Both types of system can be confused by reflections off glass and other shiny surfaces , and they can be beaten by rapidly moving subjects although the speed at which the newer systems work is incredibly fast . |
| 24 | Suspicions regarding the character of the working class husband were fuelled during the 1870s by revelations concerning wife-beating and the propaganda campaign mounted by Frances Power Cobbe , a leading middle class feminist , over what she called ‘ wife torture ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Bérégovoy's's friends claim he had been horrified by accusations of impropriety in accepting an interest-free loan of FFr1m ( $190,000 ) from a shady business friend , who was later charged with insider trading . |
| 26 | They claim their new car , launched this month , the eight two seven , is the answer to winning over the Americans who were unimpressed by problems with service and with getting spare parts for the original eight two five launched two years ago . |
| 27 | Grey-black smoke rises from bonfires of tyres and rubbish set alight by gangs of youths who roam the streets , stop expensive cars like BMW or Mercedes , and siphon out the petrol . |
| 28 | The medal was backed by a small oval of wood , polished smooth by centuries of wear . |
| 29 | Main picture Flagstones in the hall have been worn smooth by years of hobnail boots . |
| 30 | They are in a quiet part of the city , an old quarter where there are brass kicking-plates on the thresholds of the closed shops , their cross-hatchings worn almost smooth by years of polishing . |