Example sentences of "supported by a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where that group is quite small , such as a street gang , the main method of data collection used will be participant observation , perhaps supported by a limited amount of unstructured interviewing . |
| 2 | The riders are supported by a complete package of services provided by Bike Events . |
| 3 | This observation has also been supported by a recent report on healthy volunteers , showing that sudden awakening is accompanied by a strong increased in segmental motility from the colon . |
| 4 | However , when normal platelets were incubated with increasing glucose concentrations in vitro thromboxane production was unaffected ( Best et al , 1979 ) , and the findings of Halushka et al ( 1981 b ) and McDonald et al ( 1982 ) have not been supported by a recent study of platelet thromboxane generation before and after CS11 ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | The UK Catalogue Use Study reports on the negligible use of the classified catalogue , a finding which is also supported by a recent study by Hancock . |
| 6 | Supported by a small inheritance from his father , who died in 1538 , Smith gained his freedom of the Haberdashers ' Company and subsequently of the Skinners ' , the company of Sir Andrew Judde [ q.v. ] , a wealthy City merchant and Kent landowner , whose daughter , Alice , he married about 1555 . |
| 7 | Each ‘ flight ’ of 16 weapons requires a convoy of 22 vehicles supported by a small army of technicians and soldiers . |
| 8 | It is actively supported by a small part of the population , and tacitly tolerated by many more , out of either fear or a simple desire not to be involved in a political battle . |
| 9 | The Russian reformers have been supported by a small team of western advisers . |
| 10 | The body was supported by a small block of wood at the bottom of the spine . |
| 11 | A new management structure , which came into effect at the end of 1986 , has a UDC Management Board , supported by a small number of specialist committees and a two-tier revision structure . |
| 12 | This latter point was supported by a small number of respondents from private practice . |
| 13 | After the revolution , B. A. Henman , the Registrar of the Royal Society of Chemistry , explained that Elena Ceauşescu 's ‘ application was supported by a long list of papers published in her name … |
| 14 | A decrepit old man , supported by a young boy in a huge coolie hat , was tapping his way down the alley , patterned robes trailing in the rainwater . |
| 15 | The CBI 's findings were supported by a quarterly survey of more than 11,000 business executives in 16 countries by the international business information group , Dun & Bradstreet . |
| 16 | It recommended , in brief , that council members confine themselves to debating broad issues of social policy , leaving the professionals responsible for the detailed execution ; that there should be fewer committees and a management board of about seven council members supported by a corresponding group of chief officers to make most policy decisions on a corporate basis . |
| 17 | Supported by a wide range of companies — including British Steel , which sponsored Chay when he first completed the route 21 years ago — each of the 10 steel-hulled ‘ sloops ’ are identical . |
| 18 | The R-Series is also supported by a wide range of applications , and the MIPS market is a level playing field , not dominated by a Sun Microsystems . |
| 19 | Successful Compacts will promote a kaleidoscope of different activities , and will be supported by a wide range of different parties , and so a complex management task emerges . |
| 20 | The protest was called by the Swiss Trade Union Federation , supported by a wide range of church , political and business organizations , to renew demands for equal pay and employment for women , better child care and fairer social security laws . |
| 21 | United Distillers Belgium is a wholly-owned subsidiary , whose principal brands are Johnnie Walker Red Label and Gordon 's Gin supported by a wide range from the United Distillers portfolio . |
| 22 | Those arguments are supported by a broad spectrum of opinion , including people working within the taxation system and people involved in local government administration and finance . |
| 23 | The campaign was supported by a disparate band of politically astute Italians who loyally buried their differences in order to fight for unity : Carlo Alberto , the Piedmontian king of Sardinia , and Camillo de Cavour , his Prime Minister , Giuseppe Mazzini , an anti-monarchist from Genoa , and Guiseppe Garibaldi , a romantic , enigmatic guerilla leader born in Nice . |
| 24 | The " Big Green " campaign , initiated by veteran campaigner Tom Hayden , was supported by a high-profile coalition of environmentalists and film stars and other celebrities . |
| 25 | Audit and standard setting of measures common to all or most practices may best be designed and supported by a central body with nationwide aegis . |
| 26 | The Union provides one full-time officers who is elected from within the Belfast members each year and is supported by a full-time member of staff . |
| 27 | The Union provides one full-time officer who is elected from within the Belfast members each year and is supported by a full-time member of staff . |
| 28 | With a desperate envy I read adventure stories where childhood freedoms were supported by a hidden foundation of adult labour and organisation . |
| 29 | At 38.5 per cent of the vote , this was a respectable result for a candidate who was only supported by a loose group of associates . |
| 30 | In many respects it is an excellent sequel to Flow injection analysis by the same authors and , like its forerunner , it covers an impressive range of applications supported by a generous number of drawings and diagrams . |