Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 2 | ‘ Keep it ! ’ she blazed as he tossed it on to the terrace by the front door . |
| 3 | It becomes more difficult each year to find words that will reflect the invaluable help given to the Association by the young people of the Air Training Corps and the Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets . |
| 4 | I have been examining the exercise of critical thought , but the account up to now has largely concentrated on critical thinking by the individual student . |
| 5 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 6 | No-one ever told Artemis Deverill that her mother had been killed out hunting that fine October morning , knocked from her horse by the young Stanhope-Murray boy as he tried to thrust his way past her , jumping a hedge and instantly breaking her neck . |
| 7 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 8 | A Treaty Too Far by Michael Spicer , MP for South Worcestershire has a forward by the High Priestess of anti-Federalism , Lady Thatcher . |
| 9 | Although libraries may classify new stock by the latest edition of DC , earlier editions remain important because many libraries are reluctant to reclassify , and thus leave stock classified according to earlier editions long after they have been superseded . |
| 10 | It has been cut on the south side by the modern lane approaching the ‘ villa ’ . |
| 11 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |
| 12 | The unofficial side was represented by the friendly way he was being offered coffee in a thin china cup , and the official side by the nervous energy of the AC 's manner and the fact that he was unobtrusively taking notes . |
| 13 | On top of all this there is the pronouncement by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate that it sees no reason why the PWR should not receive a licence for construction and operation in the UK , so long as the CEGB and the people who are to build the power station get it right . |
| 14 | A conventional view would be that the proliferation of new species , discovered between 1650 and 1750 , sank the ark by the sheer weight of their numbers . |
| 15 | A statement by the Protestant Action Force — a cover name often used by the banned Protestant paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force — said that the attack was in retaliation for the attempted murder by the Provisional IRA of Margaret Cooke , the widow of a policeman , in Londonderry the week before . |
| 16 | It is important to stress that enterprise zones were regarded as a political experiment by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 17 | The controversy was given an authoritative boost by the 1976 report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution , chaired by Sir Brian Flowers , Rector of Imperial College and a part-time member of the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 18 | It is the legacy of the worst drought since 1745 and increasing water extraction by the Three Valleys Water Company seeking to meet demand from industry and homes . |
| 19 | An elegant environment is created in the bedroom by the attractive wallpaper with its fine blue and white stripes , the delicate Chinese hand-embroidered bed linen and the complementary patterned curtains which are by Dorma . |
| 20 | LIVERPOOL yesterday revived the idea of a British Cup to increase revenue and capture the imagination of English fans starved of top-class midweek football by the European ban . |
| 21 | The only government support so far has been a recommendation by the Rural Development Commission , part of the Department of the Environment , to establish a pilot scheme . |
| 22 | The Government has recently accepted a recommendation by the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine for a doubling in the number of trained consultants , currently 216 , but it will take 10 years before they are all in place . |
| 23 | This was the subject of a unanimous recommendation by the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment which reported in 1938 after a most careful and exhaustive enquiry into the whole subject . |
| 24 | He had reportedly insisted on resubmitting his resignation , first tendered shortly after the March 9 demonstration , despite a recommendation by the Serbian government that the Assembly should refuse it . |
| 25 | But before that stage was reached , the far-reaching social and economic changes brought about by the post-emancipation process of modernization , industrialization and the growth of capitalist relationships in Russia also found their idiosyncratic expression in Siberia , newly enlarged by the territory of the Amur and Ussuri regions which were incorporated into the empire at China 's expense by the visionary efforts of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia , N.N. Muravev-Amurskii ( treaties of Aigun , 1858 , and Pekin , 1860 ) . |
| 26 | Atco Qualcast , signalled as up for sale by BCI some two years ago , without takers , has been restructured at BCI 's expense by the very team now taking it over . |
| 27 | It is this additional purchasing power that will trigger the secondary investment by the private sector . |
| 28 | As you are aware I have been exploring ways in which the Regional Council can try to encourage investment by the private sector in the provision of new industrial land and buildings . |
| 29 | The intended ex-rights price may be estimated by dividing the total investment by the total number of shares held : . |
| 30 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |