Example sentences of "by a [noun] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is followed by a trust clause providing for payment of the legacies in the ‘ earlier will ’ ( legata quae priore testamento quo filios et Seium heredes scripsi reliqui praestari volo ) . |
| 2 | Each of these is modified by a scale factor to adjust the agreement between the model and the real world . |
| 3 | A couple of years later I was telephoned by a BBC producer called Ron Webster , who said he wanted to talk to me about Mountbatten 's obituary programme . |
| 4 | Hamelin Pool , one small arm of this vast inlet , has its entrance blocked by a sand bar covered with eel grass . |
| 5 | THE policeman whose hand was sewn back on after it was horrifically severed by a Samurai sword has spoken publicly for the first time of his ordeal . |
| 6 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 7 | We propose that this daunting list of stages , each of which calls for different information skills , can only be satisfactorily incorporated in the school 's programme by a curriculum policy built around these skills . |
| 8 | A retired couple whose home has been blighted by a by-pass scheme have lost their battle for compensation . |
| 9 | But the coroner heard the Rainbow seats made by a Birmingham firm called Jeenay and sold as a Boots own brand were put in facing the front instead of the rear . |
| 10 | To help minimise problems a ball airstone powered by a Hoffman pump has been introduced to aerate the water . |
| 11 | Bowe has been tempted by a $20million offer to fight George Foreman in Peking in March , a deal that manager Rock Newman said is too good to reject . |
| 12 | It consists of a beam of caesium atoms whose hyperfine transition frequency , at about 9.2 gigahertz , is probed by a microwave field using the ‘ Ramsey technique ’ , where the interaction takes place in two spatially separated regions with a field-free region between them . |
| 13 | ‘ The thought that any mother could manipulate their child into making this ludicrous and wicked cassette and appallingly arrange for it to be bought up by a TV network tells you all you have to know . ’ |
| 14 | If on return you wish to follow up the complaint , forward a copy of this report to us not later than 28 days after the end of your holiday , amplified by a cover letter stating your preferred solution . |
| 15 | An investigation by a suspicious dentist has shown that research work by a California dentist has been ‘ misinterpreted ’ . |
| 16 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 17 | The training process is supported by a work tool known as a Personal Development Manager . |
| 18 | COMMENTS by a Government minister have raised fears that evening and weekend rail services in Strathclyde may be cut if privatisation goes ahead , according to Brian Wilson , Labour 's Scottish transport spokesman . |
| 19 | The ANC , however , declared that it would not be deterred by a government whichit considered illegitimate and which had not been recognized by the rest of the world . |
| 20 | A man is being sponsored by a Government scheme to train as a Winston Churchill impersonator . |
| 21 | Local people have already suffered appallingly from the dangers of the Cubatoa industrial park with its 23 major factories , attracted to the region by a government policy promising no pollution control . |
| 22 | The proposals follow a decision by a Government inspector to prevent private health company Bioplan from building a clinic in the grounds of Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 23 | If , however , your parent is so seriously ill physically or mentally that she is no longer capable of dealing with her own financial affairs at any level , arrangements can be made by her solicitor for these to be dealt with by a government department known as the Court of Protection , and you should discuss this matter with the solicitor . |
| 24 | Statutory undertakers wishing to carry out development which is neither ‘ permitted development ’ nor authorised by a government department have to apply for planning permission to the local planning authority in the normal way , but in the case of ‘ operational land ’ appeals are considered jointly by the secretary of state and the ‘ appropriate minister ’ . |
| 25 | All this was topped off by a tricorne hat decorated by a plume . |
| 26 | Its chairman was Sir George ( later Lord ) May , who had spent nearly half a century in the Prudential Assurance Company , broken only by a wartime interlude administering soldiers ' canteens . |
| 27 | As the name implies , this disease is affiliated with Guppies and is caused by a ciliate protozoan called Tetrahymena . |
| 28 | I spun round to see what it was and was confronted by a barn owl flying madly around inside the aviary , flapping its wings against the mesh . |
| 29 | In 1990 the British public was enormously entertained by a libel action brought by the editor of the " Sunday Times " against the editor of the rival " Sunday Telegraph " over the latter 's moral condemnation of his ( and the " Observer " editor 's ) dalliance with a woman of easy virtue . |
| 30 | But the remedy was made available by the House of Lords to a prisoner who alleged breaches of procedural rules by a deputy governor inquiring into disciplinary offences . |