Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 2 | The board 's proposals for its future as a voluntary co-operative have been criticised not only by the Scottish dairy trade , but by a recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission report . |
| 3 | Thus by 1814 Bolivar was driven out of Venezuela by a savage backlands revolt , accidentally royalist , led by Boves , a smuggler and sergeant of the Spanish marines , who established a brutal domination over the mounted herdsmen of the plains . |
| 4 | ‘ Ministers should not prejudice the outcome of proposals yet to be made , or be influenced by a half-baked Monopolies and Mergers Commission report about a tiny acquisition . ’ |
| 5 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 6 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
| 7 | They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer . |
| 8 | The result , on revenues which totalled £568.86m ( £407.68m ) , was bloated by a 14 months accounting period as the UK-listed group fell into line with French reporting practice . |
| 9 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 10 | Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians . |
| 11 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 12 | times , hold on , forty five divided by a hundred times two hundred |
| 13 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
| 14 | The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats , not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too . |
| 15 | By a hundred meters further out |
| 16 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 17 | Between now and December , the company estimates that revenue will be down by a million pounds . |
| 18 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 19 | Following a year when toll increases from 60p to £1 and the recession slashed use of both tunnels by a million vehicles , business has begun to boom . |
| 20 | The sky was inky with cloudless black velvet studded by a million diamonds . |
| 21 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |
| 22 | The Louisiana legislation had also been declared unconstitutional in September by a federal appeals court . |
| 23 | Mr North , whose conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal was dismissed by a federal appeals court , is widely expected to run for the Senate as a Republican from Virginia . |
| 24 | BOY racers who plague the centre of an Essex seaside town are to be tackled by a new police campaign . |
| 25 | Full-back Hay had the first attempt and saw his shot only partially blocked by a hesitant Snelders . |
| 26 | PaT hope to do this partly by a Private Members Bill in the autumn which will : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That is a very comprehensive survey , erm I would n't envisage any additional sites being recommended by the City Council , er at the present time , although clearly some of the sites may be suggested by by a private developers and landowners during the consultation process . |
| 29 | Further procedural changes should include improving the exchange of information between the parties , encouraging the issue of specific written Professional Standards relating to the conduct of all principal types of litigation by the Bar and the Law Society combined with schemes to foster competence and experience , introducing new arrangements for trials , particularly so that the judge can read the case papers ( including witness statements ) before the hearing , and so be much better prepared when the hearing begins , and , in cases where there are many documents , providing a bundle of key documents , abuse of which would be checked by a personal costs sanction against the solicitors involved . |
| 30 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |