Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron , needing nothing , sat around the house , surrounded by other peoples ' books and music and art . |
| 2 | Indeed , following on from the government 's Next Steps agencies ( see below ) , for many government executive operations outturn information in departmental reports will , in future , be supplemented by individual agencies ' annual reports to Parliament . |
| 3 | They have been updated and supplemented by local authorities ' own guidelines , covering procedures , training and pupil-teacher ratios , ranging in Strathclyde 's case from 10-1 for easy hillwalking to 5-1 for walking on difficult ridges . |
| 4 | Natural Gas Vehicles were also covered in some detail but as our public relations efforts seem to be hampered by these vehicles ' technical problems it 's difficult to be more positive than we have been . |
| 5 | Although MPG6 repeats the advice in PPG7 that ‘ major development should not take place in [ National Parks or AONBs ] save in exceptional circumstances ’ , it is weakened by supplementary criteria 63(ii) and 63(v) . |
| 6 | Although MPG6 repeats the advice in PPG7 that ‘ major development should not take place in [ National Parks or AONBs ] save in exceptional circumstances ’ , it is weakened by supplementary criteria 63(ii) and 63(v) . |
| 7 | The summit at Cancun in Mexico was attended by twenty-two countries ' leaders . |
| 8 | In attempting to summarize the developments in studies of environmental processes pertinent to , and made by , physical geographers it is evident that it is extremely artificial to distinguish the contributions made by physical geographers per se from those contributed by practitioners of other disciplines . |
| 9 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | They were enemies of the sovereign , public thieves , full of vice , and atheists whose pernicious doctrine could only be met by illuminating men 's minds with geometry , physics , and astronomy . |
| 11 | Assessments for benefits and equipment , still widely delegated to doctors , are now matched by other professionals ' assessment procedures , for example when housing adaptations are required . |
| 12 | This study shows that the long acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201–995 given subcutaneously in a dose of 25 µg three times daily can abolish hypergastrinaemia induced by five days ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg once daily in man . |
| 13 | Toxic electrophilic compounds produced by both cytochromes P450 and microsomal epoxide hydrolases can be eliminated from the body by conjugation with glutathione . |
| 14 | Simon Watney refers to the effects of videos produced by Gay Men 's Health Crisis in New York , which eroticise the use of condoms as a form of ‘ pornographic healing ’ . |
| 15 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 16 | But not so ( we are told ) : Conservative advocates of tariffs and social reforms like old age pensions , wages councils , regulation of sweated trades were , Fforde argues , simply engaged in ‘ principled opportunism ’ ; this was ‘ not Collectivist Conservatism but expedient Conservatism ’ , and to see it as otherwise would be to allow oneself to be ‘ misled by manufactured appearances ' or what Fforde describes elsewhere as the gap between ‘ professed stance and true intention ’ . |
| 17 | Darwin 's theory played a major catalytic role in converting the world to evolutionism , but historians have begun to realize that our conventional image of the ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ is an oversimplification inspired by modern biologists ' enthusiasm for the concept of natural selection . |
| 18 | The republic of Karachai-Cherkessia within the Russian Federation held a referendum on March 28 on preserving the unity of the republic " in the full realization of the law " On the rehabilitation of ethnic groups affected by Stalinist purges ' " . |
| 19 | What is more , current social work and health policy seeks to move away from institutionalized forms of care provided by elderly persons ' homes and hospitals , concentrating instead on maintaining ageing people within their own homes . |
| 20 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
| 21 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 22 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 23 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 24 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 25 | An encouraging letter from him was followed by six weeks ' silence , so eventually she walked into his office and confronted him . |
| 26 | Training involves a two-year residential course which leads to the Nursery Nursing Examination Board diploma , followed by nine months ' probation with a family . |
| 27 | A military appeal court in Bucharest ruled on June 3 that a 20-year prison sentence passed on Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the overthrown and executed President Nicolae Ceausescu , should be reduced to 16 years , followed by eight years ' loss of civil liberties . |
| 28 | Once this increase becomes easier , change to 45 seconds ' exercise followed by 15 seconds ' rest . |
| 29 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 30 | As well as its North European operation ( covering Ireland , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Sweden , Iceland , Belgium , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Israel ) , which is run by Interactive Systems ' former European boss , Doug Miller , out of Interactive 's old UK offices in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , SunSoft has now opened offices in ( Grasbrunn ) Munich and Velizy-Villacoublay ( Paris ) , though both are located within the parent 's premises . |