Example sentences of "[adv] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 2 | PRESIDENT Bush 's National Security Adviser , Admiral Brent Scowcroft , was greeted warmly by the Chinese leader , Mr Deng Xiaoping , yesterday during an unannounced weekend visit to Beijing which tacitly buried the US ban on high-level governmental contacts with China . |
| 3 | This last task , in fact , had earlier been found to be performed better by the left hand of neurologically intact right and left handers ( Kimura and Vanderwolf 1970 ) . |
| 4 | Another property of the transition series metals is their ability to form chemical bonds where the electrons are provided entirely by the other bonding species ( called ligands ) . |
| 5 | The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector . |
| 6 | Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army . |
| 7 | As the phase circuit model contains no other non-linearities , the fundamental component of phase current is produced entirely by the fundamental component of phase voltage . |
| 8 | As we have already explained , such a change in angle of attack is formed naturally by the conical sailform on a delta , but it needs to be held in place on sharply tapered types . |
| 9 | After being tipped in The Observer as the next Labour leader ( Gadfly , Feb 19 ) he is now favoured apparently by the Prime Minister himself . |
| 10 | An army officer was killed by an ETA car bomb in Salamanca on Sept. 2 ; an off-duty policeman was shot dead in San Sebastián on Sept. 13 ; and a local policeman in Baracaldo near Bilbao , who had once been imprisoned for providing an ETA unit with accommodation , was killed on Oct. 21 apparently by the premature explosion of a bomb which he was handling . |
| 11 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |
| 12 | A policeman was shot dead on Nov. 22 on the university campus in Istanbul , apparently by the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Left ( Dev Sol ) . |
| 13 | It was put together by , it was put together by the Chief Fire Officer and the Chief Executive er , not just the Chief Fire Officer . |
| 14 | I had pulled the team together by the second half , and Sporting found us a very different proposition and were lucky to hold us to 0–0 . |
| 15 | COLIN Montgomerie was yesterday fined £1,000 and told to get his act together by the European Tour chief executive , Ken Schofield , who was upset by his fellow-Scot 's criticism of the King 's Course at Agadir in last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 16 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 17 | In any case , where the supplier offers competitive or preferential credit terms and loan finance to the customer , the two parties become tied together by the financial packaging of contractual terms between the two parties . |
| 18 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 19 | In each sentence , the subject and object are hinged together by the connecting verb , the verb that shows just what the subject is doing to the object . |
| 20 | An entity MALE and an entity FEMALE may be joined together by the optional relationship married to . |
| 21 | Spain , its two kingdoms brought together by the dual monarchy of the Catholic Kings , Ferdinand and Isabella , and beginning to benefit from the riches of the New World , was emerging out of its previous isolation and preoccupation with internal affairs to become one of the two dominant powers of Europe . |
| 22 | The prison was populated with people of every trade and profession only too pleased to give advice and apply their skills , from all sections of society , thrown together by the common circumstance of overindebtedness and reconciling themselves , some willingly some reluctantly , to its consequences . |
| 23 | Somehow that made the kidnap all the more obscene : as if the little family , broken yet strangely bound together by the same tragedy , had not suffered enough . |
| 24 | This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters . |
| 25 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 26 | I was working then in Palestine , a territory torn apart by Arab and Jew , held together by the British Mandate . |
| 27 | The waters of the world 's oceans are tugged outwards by the gravitational pull of the moon : a hill of water forms in the middle of the ocean when the moon is appropriately positioned above it . |
| 28 | But Dawn Run was back alongside by the next fence only to suffer another reverse when clouting the fifth from home . |
| 29 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 30 | Unlike tea estates , coconut plantations were generally owned by Sri Lankans , especially by the urban élite which had become wealthy by taking advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities . |