Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | M did well with Manchester University 's Dr Baker too , showing a blindfold , ear-muffed child guessing compass bearings after being twirled in a rotating chair by a Lady Di look-alike . |
| 2 | Their new entertainment was thought of as a slightly hysterical activity organized in a gypsy-like way by men who were , in Bosley Crowther 's phrase , ‘ hobbled by no preconceptions of the canons of propriety and good form ’ . |
| 3 | Client also agrees , that no Indemnified Person shall have any liability ( whether direct or indirect , in contract or tort or otherwise ) to Client for or in connection with such engagement , except for losses , claims , damages or liabilities incurred by Client that are found in a final judgement by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or wilful default of any Indemnified Person . |
| 4 | Earthworms , for instance , ingest and excrete huge volumes of soil , as so graphically reported in a classic study by Charles Darwin in the last century . |
| 5 | in a dank shed by the lake |
| 6 | Kurds in Turkey say they have been tortured and repressed in a bloody campaign by the government to crack down on separatist guerrillas fighting for an independent Kurdistan . |
| 7 | It had been predicted in a vague form by action at a distance theorist W. Weber in the first half of the nineteenth century , was predicted in a more precise way by H.A . |
| 8 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 9 | The children in the formal classrooms were taught in a traditional way by teachers who were backed by decades of formality . |
| 10 | A GIRL on an evening out died in a freak accident by just tripping over a kerb . |
| 11 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 12 | Reduce the cream in a wide pan by half . |
| 13 | At the ‘ top ’ are the Town Boys , a group of older boys and young men who , while not waving banners or making the most noise , are nevertheless treated in a deferential way by other subgroups . |
| 14 | Unlike Grinley , Green did not own his own hearse and mourning coaches and was probably more at home performing in-parish funerals similar to that shown in a contemporary engraving by William Hogarth on a funeral ticket issued between 1730 and 1750 by Humphrey Drew , the King Street , Westminster , undertaker . |
| 15 | However , power is not merely exercised in a simple manner by the state or by one class over others via punishment and other mechanisms , but is a ubiquitous and many-sided phenomenon ; there exists a ‘ multi-plicity of power relations ’ in society which are the constant focus of negotiation and struggle . |
| 16 | Gorbachev on Jan. 5 decreed that " in order to activate the implementation of land reform " republican and local authorities should make an inventory of " lands which are not being used in a rational manner by collective and state farms " , and of the land holdings of USSR ministries , with a view to making these available leasehold to private farmers and as allotments for town dwellers . |
| 17 | An invitation in July to the Soviet Union by NATO leaders to establish regular diplomatic liaison resulted on Oct. 25 in a historic visit by the Soviet Chief of General Staff , Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev , to NATO headquarters in Brussels , Belgium . |
| 18 | Three main strands to Conservative policy can be discerned from the multitude of programmes that were either introduced after 1979 or that , although initiated before that date , were perpetuated in a modified form by subsequent Conservative administrations . |
| 19 | His interpretation of its aims as " working for the transformation of the Labour Party into the Party of the working class revolution' came to be accepted in a modified form by most members of the League . |
| 20 | If a fuller search is deemed necessary , it must be done in a suitable place by an officer of the same sex and unless the suspect consents to accompany the officer , he must first be arrested . |
| 21 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | The biggest ever shake-up in British Telecommunications Plc 's business , services and relationship with its customers was outlined in a low-key manner by BT staff at the ISDN show in Wembley last week . |
| 23 | For a period in the 1950s and 60s , North American geology was indexed in a separate publication by the United States Geological Survey as Bibliography of North American Geology ( BNAG ) , which does not concern us in this particular study , with the AGI 's publication changing title to Bibliography and Index of Geology , excluding North America ( BIGENA ) . |
| 24 | For a period in the 1950s and 60s , North American geology was indexed in a separate publication by the United States Geological Survey as Bibliography of North American Geology ( BNAG ) , which does not concern us in this particular study , with the AGI 's publication changing title to Bibliography and Index of Geology , excluding North America ( BIGENA ) . |
| 25 | Four of the court 's nine justices joined in a separate opinion by Blackmun J. This opinion favoured a presumption of first resort to the Convention 's procedures , and feared that the majority 's preference for case-by-case comity analysis , unaccompanied by any guidance as to its conduct , would lead to the Convention 's procedures being invoked infrequently . |
| 26 | Regarding the winning Hands On feature in March Woodworker , despite the well-intended editorial footnote , I do feel it was a mistake to include Bill Wiseman 's fascinating but appallingly dangerous hold-down device , and to then endorse it in a recommendatory way by awarding it special recognition . |
| 27 | It was used in a similar way by the newly literate or semi-literate Bolsheviks at the higher levels of the Smolensk and Kursk guberniia party organizations , as can be seen from even a cursory reading of their minutes . |
| 28 | Acidity is measured in a similar way by using dilute sodium hydroxide as the titrant . |
| 29 | This explanation is consistent with the increase in bending angle reported to take place in the ternary complex and interpreted in a similar way by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] . |
| 30 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |