Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | by a ludicrous budget . |
| 2 | Three years ago riots were sparked by a ludicrous tale that Christians had used American-designed spray guns to stain Muslim women 's clothing with indelible crosses . |
| 3 | It is the form assumed by a hanging chain under a uniformly distributed load , UDL . |
| 4 | SWEEPING changes to the regulation of the press , including legal aid for libel actions , compensation for press intrusion and a powerful new law on privacy , were proposed yesterday by a cross-party committee of MPs . |
| 5 | As the 3,200 workers leave the works for an uncertain future , British Steel will begin cooling down its three blast furnaces in a risky operation which has been attacked by a cross-party alliance , including the Scottish Secretary , Mr Malcolm Rifkind . |
| 6 | He was replaced by a Muslim revolutionary regime dominated by a 79-year-old theologian , the Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 7 | The cry of ‘ Put that light out ! ’ would be followed by a hasty adjustment of a black-out curtain . |
| 8 | I bet their gigs are quite fun too although why anyone would want to sit and watch a video of one made by a stoned roadie is anyone 's guess . |
| 9 | The tears which she had , by a superhuman effort , held in check , now rose , and with impatient fingers she brushed them away angrily . |
| 10 | By a superhuman effort of will Mark says nothing . |
| 11 | To provide temporary shut off for routine servicing , such a re-washering , push-fit service valves are also available : the valve can be operated from fully open to fully closed by a quarter-turn screwdriver slot . |
| 12 | Those who score highly overall on Machiavellian behaviour will be characterized by the use of guile and deceit in interpersonal relationships , by a cynical view of other people and by a lack of concern for conventional morality . |
| 13 | The tests in ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above are the same as those used in the list of Art 9(3) experts to whom investment advertisements can be issued by a non-authorised person without the approval of an authorised person being required under s 57 of the FSA ( under the Financial Services Act 1986 ( Investment Advertisements ) ( Exemptions ) Order 1988 , as amended ) . |
| 14 | She tiptoed by a well-mown lawn , then a garden jumbled high with broken washing machines , bicycles , empty flowerpots and scraps of wood . |
| 15 | Stair , turning to see what was happening , was borne away from Neil , who was himself carried down the Haymarket by a shouting throng — the rugger match had triggered off an impromptu riot as well . |
| 16 | Although it carries a slight risk of giving false positive results , if followed by a rectal examination it gives a good indication of the presence of prostate malignancy , which can be further confirmed by ultrasound and biopsy . |
| 17 | The tests of acceptability of the durability of a physical structure for a civil engineer may not be the same as those for an electronics engineer ; the criteria in assessing human activity used by an experimental psychologist will contrast with those employed by a Jungian psychotherapist . |
| 18 | He derives figures for literature growth by a time-series analysis . |
| 19 | If firms are to collude tacitly , they must somehow choose prices and outputs which are sustainable by a credible punishment strategy that also has to be tacitly agreed upon . |
| 20 | The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island , surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings . |
| 21 | Prompted in part by a US-Soviet agreement to reduce forces in central Europe to 195,000 each [ see p. 37267 ] , senior NATO officials ( with the exception of the UK Defence Secretary , Tom King ) , attending the annual Wehrkunde conference in Munich on Feb.1-2 , called for a more closely integrated western European defence organization within an evolving Atlantic alliance . |
| 22 | For nearly four years Tony has lain in a coma , sustained by a feeding tube but trapped in what one doctor described as a ‘ living death ’ . |
| 23 | The lack of in-vitro antibody production in group III suggests that infectious agents such as P carinii , C neoformans , L infantum , Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare , and cytomegalovirus or disorders such as cerebral lymphoma and Kaposi 's sarcoma are not able to activate in vivo T gondii specific B cells by a polyclonal activation mechanism . |
| 24 | The same applies to the repetition of an auxiliary , particularly if it can be replaced by a contracted form . |
| 25 | At Ahmednagar the massive effect was relieved by a complex division of the building into different projecting , outwards and upwards , separate blocks , whereas at Ambala , Allahabad , and Jullunder the whole was brought together into one single undulating block . |
| 26 | A new loom shed was specially built , the power supplied by a complex system of line shafting from the water wheels . |
| 27 | These levels or brooks are now areas of flat low-lying grassland drained by a complex system of ditches , but lying wet in winter . |
| 28 | We have , therefore , to understand the world as seen by the individual , shaped by a complex system of expectations which have been developed throughout a lifetime . |
| 29 | Rather , what we call gender and gender roles are the observable effects created by a complex system involving , for example , sexual divisions of labour , the exclusion of women from public domains , and so on . |
| 30 | The menstrual cycle is governed by a complex system of hormones from the hypothalamus area of the brain , the pituitary gland just beneath it and the ovaries themselves . |