Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity .
2 The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother .
3 The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity .
4 This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation .
5 Analysis of political power in terms of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , with distinctions between ‘ institutional ’ and ‘ systemic ’ agendas , derives largely from the non-decision-making approach and is the nearest neo-elitism has come to producing general models of the kind favoured by the traditional elitists .
6 In its shadow , in a square of orange brickwork part hidden by the long grass , stood a circular pool .
7 But in a letter to the Times , a group of scientists , including many from Oxford , claim that over the past twelve years , the lack of funding given by the Conservative government has led to a ’ dramatic deterioration in the quality and depth of British science . ’
8 If a barchan formed by the prevailing wind ( Fig. 11.7A ) is subject to a strong wind from another direction ( Y on Fig. 11.7B ) , it will tend to swing round with the development of an incipient new wing at C and the overdevelopment of wing A. If the prevailing wind , X , again dominates , there will be a tendency for the dune to revert to its original form ( Fig. 11.7C ) .
9 Work is in hand to examine the relationship between existing HNC and HND courses in Agriculture developed by the Scottish Agricultural College and Lead Body standards at Level III and IV with a view to establishing SVQs .
10 A sub-contractor who fails to supply the 715 voucher may have his certificate withdrawn by the Inland Revenue .
11 He began to touch her very lightly , his hand stroking her face , the curve of her throat , and the cool skin exposed by the low neck of her top .
12 Never at any stage was the challenger intimated by the controversial and eccentric Eubank — now unbeaten in 36 fights .
13 BUSINESSPEOPLE in Clwyd are being invited to send their staff on a one-day customer care training course developed by the Canadian tourist industry .
14 In most cases this was a substantial decrease compared with community funding undertaken by the old Urban Programme from 1968 to 1977 .
15 So the day passed normally , with the usual ritual of work and reading , study and prayer punctuated by the regular round of the hours .
16 But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books .
17 The existence of a powerful taboo against religion in society as a whole , together with the lack of opportunity given by the explicit curriculum for questioning the taboo , ensures that most of this implicit curriculum operates against religion — against its being taken seriously at all .
18 This figure is higher than the average sea level rise calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change because the east side of England is already slowly sinking due to geological movements .
19 This is the technique favoured by the British Deaf Association as it is thought to give the child the greatest chance of expression and understanding .
20 If the aspect ratio is very low , so that the stacks are wide and thin , the stress may again be quasi-uniform but the constraint placed by the stiff layers on the less-stiff increases the overall longitudinal modulus very greatly , particularly if the less-stiff material has the Poisson ratio of a rubber .
21 Thus the question of legitimacy is crucial , and particularly the levels of support enjoyed by the civil political process as a whole compared with those enjoyed by the military .
22 The third debatable advantage enjoyed by the British press is that truth is an absolute defence to libel , no matter how unnecessary or unfair its revelation .
23 The structural invisibility enjoyed by the uniform wearer is a strange matter to experience .
24 The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas .
25 The percentage of biliary cholesterol carried by the vesicular and non-vesicular fractions was calculated by measuring the area under their respective peaks , as a proportion of the total area under the cholesterol radioactivity curve eluted from the chromatographic column .
26 Hyde Heath and Lodmoor , both in Dorset , are Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , and the 1,200 acre Holt Heath — also in Dorset — is a National Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust .
27 May 1986 The Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opens in the former General Hospital of Madrid and Atocha , a Neo-classical building designed by the Italian architect Francesco Sabatini to be even larger than the Escorial , but which never grew beyond pavilions surrounding a large courtyard .
28 ‘ Well , it 's very kind of you , ’ Ellie mumbled , a bit overwhelmed by the generous offer , ‘ but I could n't impose like that — ’
29 The eventual extension of the index to include outposted files would bring them under closer scrutiny and control , and , although a degree of consistency would be achieved by revising the file references to the level recommended by the Working Party , branch officers would still retain considerable discretion to organise their files in a manner that suited their particular needs .
30 The maximum radiation exposure of members of the public resulting from BNFL 's activities was also well below the level recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection of one millisievert a year .
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