Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winning run : Man of the Match Wasim Akram creams Ian Salisbury through the covers for four , and Pakistan have won an enthralling match by two wickets |
| 2 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
| 3 | To many , the report smacked of an attempted smear by Congress ( I ) 's dirty-tricks department . |
| 4 | There follows an attempted conspiracy by ‘ I-narrators ’ in the aim of increasing their prominence and defining their specific needs , a revolt by several characters against their authors ( most notably Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49 who declaims her views as a feminist despite Pynchon 's ‘ macho ’ stance ) , and finally , a protest by a gay rights group against the under-representation of homosexuality in literature . |
| 5 | The Cyprus model failed when an attempted coup by Greek Cypriots provoked a Turkish invasion . |
| 6 | The Northern Ireland Office pushed the line that the strike was an attempted coup by Paisley and most of the media accepted it uncritically despite the fact that the Democratic Unionist Party , of which he was leader , was only one of three political parties in the UUAC and that the Ulster Workers ' Council , which carried most of the industrial muscle , was beholden to no political party or personality . |
| 7 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 8 | On June 12 , in the midst of rumours of an attempted coup by the outgoing government — an accusation made by Walesa at the Solidarity congress [ see below ] — Milczanowski ascertained that Piotr Naimski , head of the State Security Office , had ordered Interior Ministry troops on to alert on June 4 . |
| 9 | Larsen , in fact , represents the alienated hero who seeks to come to terms with an absurd world by entering into the game , by playing out a meaningless life as if it were meaningful . |
| 10 | At that moment there was therefore an involuntary alienation by him of his property . |
| 11 | OPPOSITE Mozart at the keyboard ; an unfinished portrait by his brother-in-law Joseph Lange , 1782/3 . |
| 12 | Shadow environment secretary Jack Staw said : ‘ This was an historic betrayal by the Liberals for which they will not long , nor lightly , be forgiven . ’ |
| 13 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 14 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 15 | Dr Binnig , co-inventor of the STM , and his colleagues in Zurich have developed a solution : a needle made of diamond , say , can be made to sense an insulating surface by exploiting the weak repulsive forces that exist between atoms . |
| 16 | The idea is to ensure an orderly market by giving market participants a cooling-off period with a chance to reassess their positions . |
| 17 | I 've been asked by the building custodian , acting on behalf of the fire service , to inform you that , should the fire alarm sound , you are required to leave the building in an orderly fashion by the nearest exist . |
| 18 | I have been asked by the building custodian acting on behalf of the fire service to inform you that , should the fire alarm sound , you are required to leave the building in an orderly fashion by the nearest exit . |
| 19 | The MI5 man had arrived a few minutes before and handed his grubby Burberry raincoat and umbrella to an unctuous waiter by the door . |
| 20 | The judge added , at p. 143 , that if Woolwich had not paid there might have been an assessment or a writ ‘ with the result in either case of highly undesirable publicity for Woolwich if it had withheld the very large sums claimed by the revenue to be due ’ and that there was an understandable fear by Woolwich of damage to its reputation . |
| 21 | Stephen Campbell can work on an eight foot by eight foot canvas a week , a phenomenal speed ! |
| 22 | The wallet-sized Portfolio weighs just over a pound , yet opens out to reveal a qwerty keyboard and an eight line by 40 column display . |
| 23 | Webster 's try midway through the first half was well-taken coming on the end of an astounding burst by prop Huw Williams-Jones . |
| 24 | Last year 's champions Nottinghamshire stay next to bottom after an 11-run defeat by second-placed Essex . |
| 25 | Now a similar fascination is being exerted by the ongoing Barnett Newman drama as the City Council of Amsterdam have asked for yet another laboratory analysis of his ‘ Who 's afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III ’ ( 1967 ) which was the subject of an ill-fated restoration by Daniel Goldreyer ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p. 2 and No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 2 ) . |
| 26 | The ‘ time-out ’ procedure is intended to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behaviour by denying the child any opportunity to acquire reinforcement ( for example , getting everyone stirred up , getting his/her own way , becoming the centre of attention ) as a result of his or her misbehaviour . |
| 27 | A package containing what 's now known to have been a bomb was discovered hidden under a shelf in the Reject Shop in Cornmarket= It was found after an extensive search by sniffer dogs and army bomb disposal experts . |
| 28 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 29 | Major changes in history have involved the replacement of one form of private property by another and of one type of production technique by another : capitalism involved the replacement of privately owned land and an agricultural economy by privately owned capital and an industrial economy . |
| 30 | He completed an outstanding session by catching a second pike scaling 28lb . |