Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said he was shot by a standard issue SA80 rifle , one of the Army 's deadliest weapons . |
| 2 | According to the general theory of relativity , space-time is represented by a connected C ∞ Hausdorff manifold M together with a locally Lorentz metric g . |
| 3 | The centrepiece of Joseph Ettedgui 's latest emporium is this complex glass stair held together by a delicate spider 's web of steel rods , split pins and steel rings . |
| 4 | Now in this case D can be reduced to a standard canonical form E by a similar transformation unc where Y has precisely the same block diagonal form as D ; in effect , each diagonal block is resolved into its own canonical form . |
| 5 | Sick cattle or children are thought to have been harmed by a Dark Elf 's arrow , as Collins wrote : |
| 6 | So love is formed by a dark ray 's invasion |
| 7 | AN AMERICAN woman tourist drowned in Venice 's lagoon after her gondola was capsized by a passing ferry 's wake . |
| 8 | Triggered by a passing ship 's engines . |
| 9 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 10 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 11 | David introduced her to the warden , then they made their way to the residents ' common-room where Rachel was given a rapturous welcome by her new friends , in particular by a young Down 's syndrome woman called Belinda whose delight at seeing her again was only too apparent . |
| 12 | To see this platform threatened by a mere Smiths ' power game , hardly proved good PR for the band and a degree of bad feeling began to boil away in their home city . |
| 13 | Books : Love makes the world go round — says a Prof Dr Anthony Daniels is baffled by a Freudian philosopher 's hymn to love |
| 14 | Even in Germany , the social disqualification of middle-class origins might still have to be purged by a reserve officer 's commission — hence , in part , the wide acceptance of the military tone of German society . |
| 15 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 16 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 17 | A liquid , forced to flow in this way by a shearing force σ , experiences a viscous resistance expressed by where v is the velocity of flow along a tube of radius x , so that is the velocity gradient or shear rate γ , and η is the viscosity coefficient of the liquid . |
| 18 | I would also point out how much their savings would be clobbered by the inflation that would be unleashed by a Labour Government 's economic policies . |
| 19 | Among full-time male workers , fewer than 20 per cent of those with gross earnings of £75.00 a week or less were covered by a current employer 's scheme , compared with 80 per cent of those with gross weekly earrings of more than £150 . |
| 20 | Each level is accompanied by a thorough Teacher 's Book with detailed lesson plans , teaching suggestions , and solutions to all the puzzles . |
| 21 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 22 | The high Renaissance is exemplified by a Giovanni Santi 's ‘ Ecce homo ’ ( Altomani ) , which shows the combined influence of the Flemish School , Piero della Francesca and Venetian painting . |
| 23 | This is a departure from the soul-searching that has gone on since Hayes v Malleable Working Men 's Club and Institute [ 1985 ] ICR 703 , of trying to find a useful comparative male illness ( prostate operation ? arthritic hips ? ) to emulate a medical condition comparable to the inconvenience caused to employers by a female employee 's pregnancy . |
| 24 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |
| 25 | Such printer 's inscriptions form a study in themselves , varying greatly in length and detail and often being attractively arranged in the shape of a diamond , a wine or hour-glass , etc. , and accompanied by a majestic printer 's device or coat of arms . |
| 26 | In the subsequent weeks leading up to Christmas , Liza saw Freddie Nash only twice : once at a private party given by two officers who rented a small cottage in the district , the second time at a dance organised by a certain county grande dame , who seemed to think she was destined to introduce the opposite sex to one another as her personal contribution to the war effort . |
| 27 | Rokeya looked like a figure in a strangely exposed photograph , silhouetted , caught , highly defined by the light , like a prisoner running from a concentration camp , cruelly and horribly revealed by a roof-top guard 's spotlight . |
| 28 | there is every reason to welcome such studies , though a reader hoping for judgements about quality may be disappointed by a theoretical writer 's greater stress on interpretation . |
| 29 | It explains the number of dealers greeting the dawn on the M4 , to be in the queue outside The Bath Antiques Market each Wednesday , followed by a hard day 's trawl of the shops . |
| 30 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |