Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a recognition that er the Republic of Cyprus is clearly one entity despite the attempt made by the Turkish Cypriot side to declare a separate state . |
| 2 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 3 | That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA . |
| 4 | Rebecca lured him to her side , and he went willingly , his mind fogged by the cloudy veil that Neptune had thrown over him . |
| 5 | Experts believe the worldwide total could beat the £1.3 billion figure netted by the original Batman . |
| 6 | Indeed , the achievement of a disciplinary identity based upon academic research had by the late 19305 more or less excluded the amateur scholar-gentleman . |
| 7 | All the more important , then , to stand protected from the like and ensure that all things — not excluding alcohol — conspire to bear visible witness to that ruddy hue sported by the English living in the Tropics . ’ |
| 8 | Dot stood by the open window . |
| 9 | And can you perhaps confirm for us that you were wearing , tell us the gear explained by the previous witness . |
| 10 | The place is identified in the town as the site of a castle of which no trace remained by the eighteenth century [ Eland , 1 , 92 ] . |
| 11 | Kahlfuss coolly took his achievement in his stride , claiming not to be the slightest bit intimidated by the gruelling Kielder Forest . |
| 12 | We discover this when we try to walk towards the cliffs , our progress hindered by the occasional disappearing foot and accompanying staccato shout of Shit ! |
| 13 | Logie Bruce Lockhart , the former Scottish international , said in a letter published in a French newspaper : ‘ Do n't attach too much importance to the mistakes of the referee ( real or imagined ) or to an Anglo-Saxon plot schemed by the perfidious Albion ’ . |
| 14 | Art recoils , growing steadily smaller , tetchier and more tentative , shrinking like a 20th-century Alice , except that , where she retained her imperial dignity unimpaired , he regresses to a tearful fractious child dwarfed by the conflicting pressures of a fragmented adult world . |
| 15 | Erm life imprisonment should no longer be the automatic penalty for murder , that 's according to the committee chaired by the former er Lord er er former Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane . |
| 16 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 17 | Beneath the hill on which the serail huddles , the great iron gates of Jaffa port still stand next to a row of small stone shops , their Arab architecture belied by the Hebrew names above the windows . |
| 18 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 19 | Interferon alfa enhances lysis mediated by the immune system of hepatocytes infected with hepatitis B virus , resulting in a transient inflammatory exacerbation , which could be lethal in a liver with limited residual capacity . |
| 20 | A number of right hon. and hon. Members ' constituencies include major petroleum production facilities , so I am sure that we all share the concern and anxiety felt by the hon. Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) . |
| 21 | Thus it was agreed that a buffer zone policed by the regional peacekeeping force ECOMOG ( ECOWAS Monitoring Group ) was to be established as soon as possible along the border with Sierra Leone . |
| 22 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 23 | I recalled north India seen from 36,000 feet , laid out like a Liberty print in various shades of silt : Art Nouveauish abstractions of dark arbitrary patches and wriggling river lines in wide sandy beds , whiplash meanders and ox-bows and dried up curves where rivers once flowed — a palimpsest of an earlier topography counterpointed by the rare human impositions of road and railway in thin straight lines . |
| 24 | The fragrant sadness of Janis Kelly in Street Scene counterpointed by the ebullient jitterbugging of Catherine Zeta Jones and Philip Gould as the young lovers risking careless rupture . |
| 25 | The first relates to er a point made by the senior inspector about the list in er paragraph thirty three of P P G three . |
| 26 | My Lords , the , the point made by the Noble Lord is that it is an important one erm it is important that teachers do feel comfortable with this subject and to that end the erm grant for education support and training is making money available and religious education has been added to the number of subjects for which it can be made available to help with er improving specialisms in schools , but also pr improving co-ordination for religious education in schools . |
| 27 | I will give you an example of what one might be confronted with in the future from , from a piece from the Environment Committee in the House of Commons ' Report on Coastal Zone Planning and Management and it says here , we fail to see what is impractical about treating the seabed as submerged land an opinion shared by the Royal Town Planning Institute no less and if planning authorities can deal with issues like public rights of way , aggregate extraction multiple use on land , they should be able to cope with rights of navigation and extraction of sea . |
| 28 | My Lords , I would rise to support very briefly er but er whole-heartedly the amendment moved by the Noble Lord , Lord . |
| 29 | The cached information may be stored in a file referenced by the logical name LIFESPANCACHE and must be set up by the user . |
| 30 | But the following year the Ryder Cup men had to go to Muirfield Village — Jack 's patch — the course and club he created , to play a team captained by the Golden Bear himself . |