Example sentences of "by a [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 2 | Not only that , but he is preparing to be interviewed by a Teesside literary magazine . |
| 3 | A gas circulator is the answer where central heating is provided by a gas warm air system and the only other method of heating the domestic hot water is an electric immersion . |
| 4 | The cells also possess outward recrifying , voltage sensitive , low conductance Cl - channels , which are activated by histamine by a cAMP dependent process , and may represent the apical Cl - channel activated in parietal cells during acid secretion . |
| 5 | In the middle of February press reports indicated that the Soviet Union was advancing with the formation of a government in north Korea to be supported by a north Korean army . |
| 6 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 7 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
| 8 | The issue of emigration of professionals and management executives was examined by a government working group in 1967 and its report concluded as follows : ‘ It is popularly believed that income tax plays a dominant part in the decision to emigrate from Britain . |
| 9 | An eight-week strike officially estimated to have cost $80,000,000 in lost production at the US-owned Southern Peruvian Copper group was ended on May 4 by a government supreme decree . |
| 10 | This development was effected by a government white paper , The Reorganisation of Central Government ( Cmnd.4506 ) issued in October 1970 PESC , PAR and CFRS were seen as basically administrative procedures for facilitating political decision-making and subsequent managerial control of implementation . |
| 11 | As it happens , the Tyne and Wear Urban Development Corporation , headed by a DOE civil servant on secondment , has not adopted an aggressively ideological assertion of market rationales , which is in marked contrast to the public performances of the head of its Teesside equivalent . |
| 12 | The owner says the problem is caused by a Severn trent sewage treatment plant half a mile upstream . |
| 13 | This statement was disowned some hours later by a Fatah Revolutionary Council spokesperson in Beirut , Walid Khalid . |
| 14 | Claiming that Panic was sacrificing Serbian interests , the Minister without Portfolio , Radmila Milentijevic , resigned on Nov. 28 , followed by Economy Minister Nikola Sainovic on Nov. 29 and by a Deputy Prime Minister , Oskar Kovac , on Nov. 30 . |
| 15 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 16 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 17 | They denied the allegations and last month three were bound over by a Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , despite the CPS successfully appealing against a decision that proceedings against the four be stayed . |
| 18 | The BMC is to continue to have a training officer ( presently Iain Peter ) who will continue to do what he did before , but instead of answering to a neutered committee , training decisions are now to be made by a BMC vice president — probably John Porter . |
| 19 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 20 | Noseir was shot and seriously injured by a US Postal Service police officer whilst attempting to escape the scene . |
| 21 | As officials and the news media in various Arab countries welcomed Bush 's stand on the issue , the Israeli media reacted strongly on Sept. 13 , at least one newspaper quoting a comment by a US pro-Israel lobbyist that Bush 's remarks bordered on the anti-semitic — a charge which was repeated in a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet on Sept. 15 by right-winger Rehavam Ze'evi of Moledet . |
| 22 | Measures during September to enforce the trade embargo at sea included ( i ) US action on Sept. 4 to stop the Iraqi freighter Zanubia , carrying tea from Sri Lanka , which was re-routed without the cargo being impounded ; ( ii ) the searching of the tanker Faur in the Gulf of Oman on Sept. 14 ; ( iii ) warning shots fired on Sept. 27 by a US naval vessel prior to the boarding by US Marines of the Iraqi tanker Tadmur , which was allowed to proceed after it was verified that it carried no cargo ; and ( iv ) the first UK action , on Sept. 30 , when HMS Jupiter stopped an Indian merchant vessel , Akebar , off Qatar , on its return from delivering humanitarian food supplies , but allowed it to proceed after it was found to be carrying refugees and was declared free of contraband . |
| 23 | Imelda Marcos , the widow of deposed Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos , was acquitted by a US federal court of racketeering , fraud and obstruction of justice charges arising from the purchase of real estate , jewellery and works of art . |
| 24 | Aquino had suffered an earlier disappointment when Imelda Marcos , widow of the former dictator , was in July 1990 acquitted by a US federal court on corruption charges [ see p. 37613 ] . |
| 25 | The colourful event includes a visit by a US Korean War Jet fighter , the T33 ‘ Shooting Star ’ and the famous Crunchie ‘ Stand on Wing ’ Flying Circus . |
| 26 | Controversy over Israel 's defence capabilities continued with the publication on Oct. 20 of The Samson Option by a US investigative journalist , Seymour Hersh . |
| 27 | Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details . |
| 28 | A " friendship agreement " was signed between Laos and North Korea during a visit by a North Korean Party delegation to Vientiane on Nov. 7 . |
| 29 | The only functions that necessarily have to be carried out by the Bank of England are lender of last resort facilities — even supervision could be carried out by a self regulatory organisation ( SRO — see Chapter 12 ) for the banking system . |
| 30 | On Dec. 29 an official inquiry report by a Sind High Court judge ruled out any political motive in the assault and cleared Marwat Khan of complicity in the alleged incident . |