Example sentences of "by a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is accounted for by a 9% rise in orders ; a 5% increase in hardware shipments and 16% increase in software and services — including equipment . |
| 2 | WHITNEY Houston was the weapon in a war of noise waged by a Teesside woman against her neighbour , a court has heard . |
| 3 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 4 | He adjusted his blue-tinted pilot-style glasses with a hand that wore a broad gold ring backed up by a gold cufflink in the shape of a reef-knot . |
| 5 | But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater . |
| 6 | Fire chiefs said the explosion , at 3.40 a.m. , was caused by a gas leak from a water heater . |
| 7 | The requirements were approved annually by Parliament , and were determined by a scale rate of benefit , together with a whole series of regular weekly additions . |
| 8 | You can read the world into that song , where Enya is concerned , but it was , in fact , inspired by a BBC documentary about a child evacuated out of London during the war . |
| 9 | I was once heavily criticised by a BBC producer for saying that early African history was boring in school because there were no people in it . |
| 10 | THE British Lions launched their tour of New Zealand with a hard-earned win over North Auckland at Whangarei but the victory was marred by a shoulder injury to winger Ian Hunter . |
| 11 | Our last supper was of mushroom-and-tofu stroganoff , followed by a virtuoso performance by a Dutch clown . |
| 12 | Another borrowing from mainstream is the courtroom scene at the centre of the film , which is carried by a virtuoso cameo from Marlon Brando as a wheezy , old and vastly corpulent liberal lawyer . |
| 13 | It was followed by a roll call of state delegations which saw Clinton formally clinch the nomination with 3,372 votes compared with 596 for Brown , 209 for Tsongas and 77 for other candidates . |
| 14 | Skara Brae , built before Egypt 's Great Pyramid Age : ten Stone Age houses , uncovered by a sand storm in 1850 . |
| 15 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 16 | Ablation of capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones , as verified by a 90% depletion of their marker calcitonin gene related peptide from the gastric wall , resulted in a significant aggravation of ethanol injury . |
| 17 | Teachers who are training girls in Medau for the Duke of Edinburgh Aware are reminded that the girl 's movement must be assessed by a Medau trainer at the outset ; otherwise it is impossible to assess her progress . |
| 18 | Incidentally , in World War 1 you were shot — and many people were shot — by a firing squad of their own regiment , thus Buster was sentenced to be flogged . |
| 19 | He was court-martialled and on 3 May 1916 he was executed by a firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol , Dublin , as on 4 May was his brother William , who had acted as his aide-de-camp . |
| 20 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |
| 21 | Mass of Thanksgiving was offered in St Thomas More 's Church followed by a celebration party in the Knights of Columba . |
| 22 | There are two overdrive modes , OD1 and OD2 ( just like the JMP-1 MIDI preamp , which obviously shares much of the S80 's technology ) , selected by a push switch alongside the boost channel gain pot . |
| 23 | A cloaked umpire , helmeted for impartial anonymity , sat by a notator machine in the design of a giant vampire bat 's head with glowing red eyes ; its ear-aerials wove an ultrasonic web recording every movement within the central arena . |
| 24 | The near £5m annual budget was in surplus for the year by more than £139,000 swelled by a £53,000 surplus from previous years to almost £193,000 . |
| 25 | The offshore aggregate resource assessments funded by the Department of the Environment , The Crown Estate and NERC continued with a geophysical survey off the Humber Estuary which will be followed by a sampling programme in 1991 . |
| 26 | ‘ The launch of the television programme will also be accompanied by a video compilation of the programmes which will be sold in all local shops . |
| 27 | This last use was demonstrated on the stand at the Olympia show by a video recording of an avant garde Japanese artist who gave a synthesiser-dance concert using the system . |
| 28 | Acting attorney general Stuart Gerson and FBI director William Sessions declined to identify the man held , named by a TV station as Salama Mohammed , 26 . |
| 29 | The sort of thing he or she might do , for example , is to suggest the use of a particular pattern of spaces across two or more pages of a magazine ; the use of a particular daily newspaper in order to exploit the merchandising services it can provide in support of the advertising ; an especially good offer by a TV station to new TV advertisers ; a new publication giving especially favourable rates for its first few issues ; and so on . |
| 30 | Marktrace Projects Ltd ( MPL ) , formerly of West Street , Middlesbrough , is named as a central player in a huge corruption game by a TV programme to be shown tomorrow night . |