Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
| 2 | They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer . |
| 3 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 4 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |
| 5 | The Louisiana legislation had also been declared unconstitutional in September by a federal appeals court . |
| 6 | Mr North , whose conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal was dismissed by a federal appeals court , is widely expected to run for the Senate as a Republican from Virginia . |
| 7 | BOY racers who plague the centre of an Essex seaside town are to be tackled by a new police campaign . |
| 8 | PaT hope to do this partly by a Private Members Bill in the autumn which will : |
| 9 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |
| 10 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 11 | The deal is being financed by a one-for-seven rights issue to raise £5m . |
| 12 | This service is provided through IRPC by a legal expenses insurance policy which we have taken out for each of our customers ' benefit . |
| 13 | It will be replaced , most probably , by a modern sports centre which will have no room for cricket . |
| 14 | It follows a campaign by a civil rights activist called John Bugg . |
| 15 | A Zimbabwean student at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow was shot dead by a Russian police officer on Aug. 11 . |
| 16 | A TOWN with one of the worst unemployment figures in East Anglia has been hit by the loss of 21 more jobs , while 30 posts are being axed by a major drugs firm . |
| 17 | In one of the most outspoken statements ever made by a Metropolitan Police officer of his rank , he says : ‘ The council has been ensuring that as many cases as possible are referred to the SMG , a pernicious organisation spewing out lies and propaganda in pursuance of their own ideological aims . |
| 18 | His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night . |
| 19 | Only do-it-ourself and textiles showed a fall-off caused by a reduced textiles range and the decision not to take part in the DIY price war . |
| 20 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 21 | After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York . |
| 22 | Thus , it would not be advisable , for example , to compare a sample of heroin users generated from GPs ' records with one produced from the files of a local Drugs Council , because some GPs require patients to attend counselling sessions to complement medical treatment , so that patients who have seen their GP about their heroin use may be more likely to occur in a sample generated by a local Drugs Council than users who have not sought treatment from their GP . |
| 23 | The re-presented programme was buttressed by the inclusion of opposition members in the Cabinet , by a political agreement between the BSP and opposition parties on a transition to democracy signed on Jan. 3 and by a government-employers-trade unions agreement on preserving social peace signed on Jan. 8 . |
| 24 | However it was not long before the majority rule was being challenged by a special circumstances doctrine , and by an even wider rule that directors owed fiduciary duties to shareholder per se . |
| 25 | High Quality Service — Renault UK 's Swindon-based National Parts Distribution Centre is linked to all 270 dealers by a special parts hotline . |
| 26 | I am also sorry to report that early on Sunday morning in a separate incident a young man was found dead in west Belfast in a car which had earlier been seen in suspicious circumstances and pursued by police ; that incident is being investigated by a senior police officer and the Independent Commission for Police Complaints has been asked by the RUC to supervise the inquiry . |
| 27 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 28 | Holyfield announced his retirement from boxing after losing to Bowe by a unanimous points decision |
| 29 | Elected in 1946 , the had hitherto failed to make much impression ; financially backed by a soft drinks company , whose interests he advocated , he was dismissed as the " Pepsi Cola kid " . |
| 30 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |