Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 2 | They find their way to alternative allergists because they read articles in newspapers and magazines that are written by naive journalists or planted by efficient public relations experts . |
| 3 | Composed of an allover arrangement of repeating vases and considered by many experts to be one of the most aesthetically accomplished of all Persian designs . |
| 4 | At municipal and provincial levels party committees were to be reduced from seven to five members who would , for the first time , be selected from lists of multiple candidates and elected by secret ballot . |
| 5 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 6 | The purpose of the award is to encourage the pursuit of excellence in Christian literature written by Australian authors and produced by Australian publishers . |
| 7 | JTPs are operating in a vacuum , with some schemes attempting to provide quality training while constrained by inadequate funds and overloaded by bureaucratic paper work . |
| 8 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 9 | Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street . |
| 10 | The garden , with all its vivacious attendant personalities , has become a vista of flat concrete , perfect for parking cars and marked by yellow lines . |
| 11 | Commentators suggested that the key factor in the Marxist MLSTP 's defeat was the country 's economic crisis , marked by labour disputes in recent months and exacerbated by collapsing world prices for the country 's economic mainstay , cocoa . |
| 12 | Male Wistar rats weighing 250–400 g were killed and strips of colonic circular smooth muscle were attached to isotonic transducers ( Harvard , Kent , England ) in 2 ml organ baths and perfused by oxygenated ( 95% O 2 , 5% CO 2 ) Krebs Henseleit solution , composition : ( mM/l ) NaCl 118 ; KCl 4.69 ; MgCl 2 1.13 ; CaCl 2 2.56 ; NaHCO 3 20 ; NaHPO 4 1.15 ; glucose 5.5 . |
| 13 | Trapped by nets or felled by corded arrow Hen and cock are parted one dawn . |
| 14 | Poverty huddles in corners or squats by pitiful displays of chocolates long past their sellby date . |
| 15 | This is particularly important if the authority in question has been doubted by judges or criticised by legal writers . |
| 16 | The 1992 National Cup competition at the Crystal Palace exhibition was once again attended by the top men 's , ladies ' and youth teams who had either fought their way through eliminating rounds or prequalified by high National League placings last season . |
| 17 | Perhaps there would be some trenchant criticism of the accounting techniques used by some significant companies and sanctioned by eminent auditors , or new ideas about the direction that accounting standards might take . |
| 18 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 19 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 20 | A number of studies have investigated the disorders of defecation in spinally injured people , but most involve patients with incomplete lesions at different sites and caused by different mechanisms . |
| 21 | There is a delightful duckpond , in the village , fed from within by more springs and edged by overhanging willows , creating a picturesque scene . |
| 22 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 23 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 24 | They had , these dastardly ‘ Poles ’ , been caught committing terror acts and killed by brave SS units in the ensuing battle . |
| 25 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 26 | A CRUMBLING network the size of Belgium ; 2.7 million passengers a day ; the average Londoner 's travelling time to work 52 minutes and rising by several seconds each week . |
| 27 | The average Tube-goer 's travelling time to work is 52 minutes and rising by several seconds every week . |
| 28 | It already has the Patriots ( deployed round the country 's main cities and manned by American crews until Israeli servicemen can be trained to use them ) and the almost permanent presence of America 's deputy secretary of state , Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 29 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 30 | PER CENT ( PERCENTAGE ) — A proportion or a part in a hundred ; i.e. the number of cases of a part divided by the number of total cases and multiplied by 100 . |