Example sentences of "by an [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an assessment is required by an EC directive which has the force of law in Britain . |
| 2 | This resistance is controlled in effective value by an error amplifier which takes a signal from an error detector and compares it with a stable reference voltage , often derived from a Zener diode or a bandgap device . |
| 3 | It worked regularly for over a hundred and fifty years , its machinery driven by an undershot wheel which remains . |
| 4 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 5 | Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house . |
| 6 | Edwin Muir 's One Foot in Eden ( 1956 ) is a last collection of poems by an Orkney poet whose passion for ancient myth was an expression of something deeper still — a profound distrust of the urban , the rootless and the industrial — and he repeatedly glimpsed , with a painful sense of loss , a paradise beyond grey modernity : |
| 7 | Yes , it is inhabited again , only this time by an army detachment which monitors the efforts of a missile range in the Hebrides , but it does mean that electric light and other amenities are made available — including a pub called the Puff Inn ! |
| 8 | The sofas and chairs were deep and soft enough to fall asleep in , a fireplace was topped by an Adam mantel which Hugo had had flown out from England and everywhere there were fresh flowers — long stemmed hothouse roses , orchids flown in from Singapore , daffodils and narcissi and heavy perfumed hyacinths . |
| 9 | For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton . |
| 10 | Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas was heralded by an HMSO flyer which , referring back to the volume 's antecedents , commented that : |
| 11 | Ten years ago , a computer was a large , static and very expensive piece of machinery , operated by an expert elite who communicated with it in a language which only they understood . |
| 12 | The underlying pattern is modelled by an independence graph which possesses the remarkable Markov property that any two variables that are not directly connected are independent conditional on only their separating set . |
| 13 | The organization was run by an executive council who were responsible to a grand council , and was administered locally at the county level . |
| 14 | The 130 pieces in a ‘ Booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v : vi : vii : and viii : parts for voyces or Instrumentes ’ dating from c. 1578 , some years later than the Mulliner Book , consist of vocal pieces without text and ‘ In nomines ’ or other cantus firmus compositions , but includes only a single ‘ phancy ’ for five parts by an Edward Blancks who is nearly as obscure as the ‘ Newman ’ of the Mulliner Book . |
| 15 | By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application . |
| 16 | This is produced by an enzyme system which gives off light when exposed to oxygen and is a vastly more efficient process than that used by us to create artificial light . |
| 17 | In May 1940 , her problems were compounded by an evacuation order which transposed Bunce Court from Kent to Shropshire and by the internment of some of its best teachers . |
| 18 | Schellenberg was firing at a series of cardboard Russian soldiers , watched by an SS sergeant-major who was obviously in charge . |
| 19 | The civilian guards could be easily overpowered by an IRA unit which could then drive a huge van bomb virtually unchallenged to the rear of Parliament Buildings . |
| 20 | And in any case , this sort of information will hardly prove the point in question ; for while it is true enough that capital can influence the filling of government posts , the formation of foreign policy and so on , this simply shows that the state is swayed by an interest group which may be one among many . |
| 21 | In the early 1980s linked-skills courses were established in which bilingual students studied vocational or recreational subjects with language back-up being provided by an ESL teacher who was present throughout the subject session . |