Example sentences of "[noun pl] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all young , fit and well trained in martial arts by the four Orientals who ran the sect as a front for their Triad drugs ring . |
| 2 | Yet , a positive impact was made by the publication of such guidelines by the English Law Society in 1989 . |
| 3 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 4 | Whether it 's simply the right songs by the right band at the right time , who knows . |
| 5 | The Minister of Education , Mr Yitzhak Navon , said yesterday that he was suspending a ban on the songs by the state-run Broadcasting Authority pending a final decision by the attorney-general . |
| 6 | The Ragusans represented a way of life which was completely different from that imposed upon the Balkan peoples by the Ottoman occupation , and their influence on life in the cities was of great historic significance . |
| 7 | A recent Bank project in north-west Brazil , Planaforo , which aims to help correct some of the damage caused to indigenous peoples by the Bank-funded road through Rondonia state , has itself come under attack . |
| 8 | The central position of theology as the ‘ queen ’ of disciplines was paralleled in later centuries by the similar position occupied by philosophy in Scottish universities ( Davie 1961 ) . |
| 9 | As the war continued and the death toll at sea mounted , Wilson 's patriotism , his sense of outrage at the methods by the German government to break the Allied blockade and the strength of his anti-German sentiments grew until they became almost pathological . |
| 10 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 11 | ( The true picture was unfortunately not told to RW&P readers by the much-travelled Chris Thau in one of his recent reports . |
| 12 | On April 27 , George Brizan , hitherto Finance Minister , was appointed Minster of Agriculture while retaining responsibility for Trade , Industry , Production and Energy ; Tillman Thomas became the new Finance Minster and was replaced as Minister of Works , Communications and Public Utilities by the former Agriculture Minister Phinsley St Louis . |
| 13 | It is built into the structure of organizations by the horizontal division of labour as well as by the vertical division into departments , sections and units . |
| 14 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 15 | And this very executive power is again checked and kept within bounds by the two houses , through the privilege they have of enquiring into , impeaching , and punishing the conduct ( not indeed of the King , which would destroy his constitutional independence ; but , which is more beneficial to the public ) , of his evil and pernicious counsellors . |
| 16 | A feature of this section is a stream issuing from Hackergill Cave on the south bank , but this , along with the other wonders of the river hereabouts , must be regarded as out of bounds by the prudent pedestrian . |
| 17 | It is listed as one of the world 's most endangered animals by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature . |
| 18 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |
| 19 | Come five o ’ clock on a Saturday afternoon you 'd bundle your way out of the pictures , delirious with image overload , to be hit between the eyes by the blinding light of day and a balmy blanket of heat . |
| 20 | The formation of the double stranded oligonucleotide in the competition of the single stranded probes by the complementary strand can be seen at the bottom of Figure 2B and is clearly demonstrated in Figure 3 ( lanes 9-12 ) ( no extract or poly ( d ( I-C ) is added , only competitor oligonucleotides ) . |
| 21 | By borrowing Chinese cameras , and gaining access to more sophisticated foreign models that had been ‘ liberated ’ from bourgeois homes by the Red Guards , he gradually mastered the art and became a very proficient photographer . |
| 22 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 23 | Anther favourite picture hanging in the dining-room is a drawing of two reclining nudes by the Japanese artist Foujita . |
| 24 | Finsbury Park or the Euston Road , but more serious damage could be done if a fatty was seen wearing a bad pair of trainers by the opposing teams ' fashion spotters . |
| 25 | In July 1297 Winchelsey had news of a still more recent document , issued in February , conceding the whole principle of taxation of the clergy by the French king . |
| 26 | As for wartime political activity , this was naturally inhibited for all the main parties by the electoral truce . |
| 27 | The result removed any lingering doubt on this issue and showed clearly that while the outcome of the Westminster elections was distorted in terms of seats secured by parties by the X-voting system the voting pattern roughly reflected the division in public opinion , ( see page 20 ) . |
| 28 | Isochronous Ethernet , which can carry voice , video , image and data at speeds up to 16Mbps , will be incorporated into IBM 's family of ValuePoint personal computers by the first half of next year , Joe Panella , programme manager for IBM 's Entry Systems Technologies Division in Boca Raton , Florida told US PC Week . |
| 29 | INVESTIGATIONS into alleged misuse of public funds by the local enterprise company for Lothian have found no evidence to support the claims , it emerged yesterday . |
| 30 | The people to be assisted included around 638,000 Angolans displaced in southern provinces by the civil war and by drought , as well as 140,000 affected by flooding in the north . |