Example sentences of "by a [noun] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's too easy to be seduced by a computer 's apparent ease of use in desktop publishing , ’ he declares . |
| 2 | FOSTER father Norman Roberts took a horse whip and bamboo stick to a boy placed in his care by a council 's social services department , it was alleged today . |
| 3 | These consist of gold and foreign exchange deposits held by a country 's central bank which can be used to finance imports in the event of an export shortfall . |
| 4 | Aminoacids were analysed by a BAS 200A ternary gradient high performance liquid chromatography system ( Bioanalytical Systems Inc. , West Lafayette , IN , USA ) with a CMA200 autoinjector ( Carnegie Medicin , Stockholm , Sweden ) . |
| 5 | SLEEPY staff at The Times were left red-faced by a prankster 's naughty note . |
| 6 | But not really frightened , buoyed up always by a child 's invincible courage , the courage that comes from a sense of immortality . |
| 7 | As she carried the flowers into the other room she saw that the other boy had an arm that was twisted , very twisted , like a clever but grotesque sculpture , and his face was oddly formed like a plasticine model interrupted by a child 's clumsy fingers . |
| 8 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 9 | It must however be emphasized that these powers can not be used by a solicitors ' incorporated practice to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to incorporated practices — in this regard attention is drawn to the proviso set out in Clause 3(a) . |
| 10 | It must however be emphasised that these powers can not be used by a solicitors ' incorporated practice to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to incorporated practices — in this regard attention is drawn to the proviso set out in Clause 3(a) . |
| 11 | Some people feel they have been put off sex by a parent 's clear disgust . |
| 12 | — coin ; notes issued by a nation 's central bank ; bank balances maintained by banks with the central bank . |
| 13 | In fact it has three of the blighters , two of which are occupied by a VL-bus ET4000 Super VGA card and a cached IDE host adaptor , the first I 've seen . |
| 14 | If the interim profits are verified by a bank 's internal audit department , then they will be included in tier 2 capital . |
| 15 | AN SAS hero survived daring undercover operations during the Gulf War — only to be killed by a mate 's tragic blunder on a peacetime exercise . |
| 16 | And equally they can recall the lasting resentment caused by a teacher 's blatant unfairness , or by a public humiliation . |
| 17 | To what extent is selection influenced by a book 's physical features ? |
| 18 | In my view , the Revenue 's contention is much less tenable with regard to the payment of dividends by a group 's existing subsidiaries , even though the Revenue argues that an abnormal dividend is itself a ‘ transaction in securities ’ , applying the dicta in Greenberg v CIR ( 1971 ) 47 TC 240 . |
| 19 | UNPERTURBED by a visitor 's forthright ‘ cross examination ’ , museum information officer Lynn Miller ( left ) is pictured identifying early Wedgwood ware at a museum in the Netherlands , the company 's oldest export market dating back to 1763 . |