Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme was beaten in the TV ratings only by the ever-popular Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show , which attracted twenty-eight million viewers , the highest figure for any programme in eight years . |
| 2 | The village of Mojacar is enchanting and provokes a desire to discover more about its fascinating history — how it was conquered by the Moors and recaptured centuries later by the Catholic Kings . |
| 3 | Thus France after the high ground of the early Middle Ages descended into a trough from which the nation would be raised only centuries later by the great Capetians Philip Augustus and St Louis : feudal monarchs who defused feudalism . |
| 4 | It placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many , many years . |
| 5 | It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering . |
| 6 | WE WERE in Prague and then Bratislava for British Film Week , organised months ago by the British Council , but now thrust inadvertently into the middle of a political , social and cultural revolution . |
| 7 | On the A41 finally , London road in Bicester in Oxfordshire , the roadworks there by the level crossing with the temporary traffic lights are causing a fair bit of congestion this evening in both directions . |
| 8 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 9 | A molecule in the bulk of a liquid is pulled in all directions equally by the intermolecular forces . |
| 10 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |
| 11 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 12 | However , he considered that only locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels were really suitable for express-train service and the first of these were built in 1868 , followed two years later by the larger 4–2–2 type with outside cylinders and driving wheels eight feet in diameter , whose simple and elegant outline created great interest . |
| 13 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 14 | This is the only method that can reproduce several colours simultaneously by the simple process of writing over different coloured carbon papers in turn when preparing the master copy . |
| 15 | It was first announced 12 days ago by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , as part of the Government 's ‘ taking stock ’ exercise . |
| 16 | ‘ A bill like this was attempted some 25 years ago by the then Minister of State Mr J R Jayewardene , but it was not acceptable to the then government . |
| 17 | Of course , as everyone in the district knows , the path was destroyed many years ago by the Great Landslide . |
| 18 | The idea for an exhibition of such size around 250 exhibits from seven European countries was devised some years ago by the Dutch silver specialist Mrs A. Krekel-Aalberse with R. J. Willink of the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts and Dr J. ter Molen of the Boymans . |
| 19 | The previous hat-trick was achieved 60 years ago by the 1st Btn . |
| 20 | Mr Lee recognises the 752-member assembly for what it is — an anachronism instinctively opposed to the reforms begun three years ago by the late President Chiang Ching-kuo ( a son of Chiang Kai-shek ) and carried on by Mr Lee . |
| 21 | The building was restored five years ago by the Irish government , at the cost of £21 million . |
| 22 | This brown fibrous material was first developed over 550 million years ago by the early segmented creatures , the trilobites and crustaceans . |
| 23 | Paul Hutchins Tennis and Leisure , the company formed four years ago by the former British National Team Manager and Davis Cup captain , has been appointed by the LTA to run the already popular National Club League , which begins later this year . |
| 24 | He says he was told about the Oxford ring 12 years ago by the former MI5 agent , Peter Wright , whose book Spycatcher caused such a stir . |
| 25 | ‘ Now , before our next programme — which was recorded several years ago by the Central Office of Information — we go over to Bill Giles in the London Weather Centre for the twenty-four hour forecast . ’ |
| 26 | The spectacular pieces found during the past fifty years off the east coast have often contained prehistoric dragonflies , trapped thousands of years ago by the oozing liquid as it flowed from the tree trunk . |
| 27 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 28 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 29 | A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company . |
| 30 | The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air . |