Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of EC support received by overseas farmers and information regarding the prices paid and received for their various commodities . |
| 2 | The British Isles became , in 1941–43 , a giant aircraft-carrier punished by German raids but giving more than was received as the air war was intensified by 1943 . |
| 3 | This does not mean , however , that one should invest in that declining industry beyond the level justified by short-run returns . |
| 4 | Maggie stared at John 's bare back , his creamy white skin punctuated by large freckles both fascinated and repelled her . |
| 5 | Pensioner tricked by bogus gardeners |
| 6 | Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth . |
| 7 | Opening a Trust account seems to be the route favoured by many hoteliers . |
| 8 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |
| 9 | Since , however , the types of response given by these enquirers did not differ significantly from applicants , we have grouped them with the applicants for the purpose of the analysis . |
| 10 | Although there are differences in the method of removal favoured by different surgeons ( Goodall , 1957 ) , it is usual to spare as much of the thalamus , basal ganglia and hippocampal cortex as possible and for this reason Austin and Grant ( 1955 ) , among others , have pointed out that the operation might be better described as hemi-decortication , reserving the term hemispherectomy for those cases in which subcortical structures are also destroyed . |
| 11 | Towards the end of June 1989 the dismissal of the reformist CCP general secretary , Zhao Ziyang , signalled the victory of conservative elements in a two-month power struggle provoked by conflicting responses to pro-democracy demonstrations by students [ see pp. 36721-22 ] . |
| 12 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 13 | As far as we know , they all used two or three microphones spaced some yards apart along the front of the orchestra , a technique favoured by American engineers to this day . |
| 14 | A system based solely on attendance does not take account of the range of a councillor 's duties ; leaves some councillors better off than others ( depending on their employment situation ) ; and does not adequately reflect the added responsibility carried by senior councillors . |
| 15 | It is one of the few new entries to a chart dominated by old favourites . |
| 16 | The melon was boiled and brought to Dot next dinner time with her chicken broth all around like a shattered building surrounded by deep trenches full of murky rainwater . |
| 17 | Situated in the historic Almonry building surrounded by delightful gardens , come and see history unfold before you eyes on the town model . |
| 18 | Catholme , Staffordshire reveals a similar pattern of enclosed units with a large central building surrounded by lesser structures , some interpreted as granaries . |
| 19 | The mean rectal labelling index reported by these investigators was , in fact , lower than that found in any of the groups of our study . |
| 20 | While this sum is just above the average sum of additional income earned by single parents under the previous system , the new rules , again in the name of simplification , have abolished the claimants right to offset child-minding costs against their earnings . |
| 21 | The new Tory ministry under Harley may have been successful in changing the previous Whig majority in Parliament into a Tory one in the General Election of 1710 ; but the furore unleashed by the Sacheverell affair meant that a Parliament dominated by High Tories was returned , which was much more extreme than a moderate like Harley would have wished . |
| 22 | A mentality of servile subordination interspersed by ineffective jacqueries tended to arise from such conditions . |
| 23 | It was submitted on behalf of Mr Street that the court can not in these circumstances decide that the agreement created a tenancy without interfering with the freedom of contract enjoyed by both parties . |
| 24 | The last thing I wanted when I was so worried about what was happening with my own daughter was to spend my sentence surrounded by pregnant women . |
| 25 | The Ukrainian parliament voted by 340 votes to six on May 13 to annul the independence declaration as against the Constitution . |
| 26 | On June 13 he received a standing ovation from the European Parliament in Strasbourg ; on the following day the Parliament voted by 177 votes to 47 with five abstentions in favour of a resolution to maintain sanctions [ see p. 37521 for June EC Foreign Ministers ' summit meeting in Dublin ; for February United Kingdom decision to lift some sanctions see p. 37234 ] . |
| 27 | The second class of forests were those like Whittlewood , Salcey , Rockingham , Wychwood and Sherwood , where the soil was for the most part owned by local landowners . |
| 28 | So areas which might otherwise be productively integrated into developed societies are constrained by an unchanging ethos dominated by traditionalist elites , subject to economic and political dependence on the centre . |
| 29 | Other equally influential modern forms of historiography have tended to develop still further this European ethnocentrism , with other societies viewed either as the passive victims of the European search for markets ( e.g. Wallerstein 1979 ) , so that the rest of the world is seen as peripheral to a West-European core , or else as active players in what is still , however , a story dominated by European desires ( e.g. Wolf 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Roy Spring , clerk of works ( left ) , directs the endless repairs to the Cathedral , at present surrounded by 28 miles of scaffolding ( bottom ) . |