Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 2 | There is a clearly perceptible change of attitude by the public and the people themselves to the relatively affluent and healthy newly retired : the Jollies Jet-Setting Oldies with Lots of Loot ) and the Woopies ( Well-Off Older People ) . |
| 3 | Even at the highest pressures used here , the progressive loss of conduction by the small amounts of fluid still remaining in the pores unfortunately prevents quantitative comparisons with a dry rock containing only compact carbon and matrix minerals . |
| 4 | This included fifteen actual vintage aircraft , thirty rebuilt trainers for use by the American film unit , another 21 rebuilt trainers used in the Japanese produced scenes , and thirty P–40 mock-ups for targets . |
| 5 | The header is one of the few mandatory elements in a TEI document , reflecting the importance attached to this kind of information by the research community . |
| 6 | It is generally elicited only by stimuli that are both infrequent ( or improbable ) and significant in the sense that they require some kind of response by the subject . |
| 7 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 8 | ‘ Every evening , the living room gets converted into some kind of camp by the children and smeared in food and footprints , ’ she laughs , ‘ but what 's the point of a home if you have to be precious with it ? ’ |
| 9 | An abrupt change of position by the United States ostensibly wrecked what some have claimed was a promising diplomatic move . |
| 10 | It was a marked change of mood by the chairman following his statement earlier this week that he had ‘ no intention of selling my shareholding ’ . |
| 11 | Further acts of aggression by the Soviet bloc seemed possible in a number of vulnerable regions such as Germany and Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | A useful reference work , although some definitions presuppose a fairly high level of knowledge by the students . |
| 13 | In particular to ensure that land that is restored to agriculture , forestry or amenity uses can be managed in a suitable way for a period after the restoration itself is complete to ensure that it returns to a proper level of productivity by an ‘ after-care ’ condition . |
| 14 | It was undoubtedly a valuable public demonstration of convergence by the two powers against common enemies . |
| 15 | The Club tried , unsuccessfully , to buy 12 acres of land by the present 12th at £40 an acre , and sold several acres two years later at £50 an acre . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 17 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 18 | This act of faith by the Department was one which I hoped would be justified and I was very much looking forward to the challenge . |
| 19 | Active tenants ' and residents ' committees in your block or area are a good sign : they give you a point of contact with neighbours and usually mean that your environment is afforded some degree of protection by the efforts of these people . |
| 20 | The system survived the new depression of 1979–81 and succeeded in creating some degree of stability by the later 1980s , though not without many problems . |
| 21 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 22 | This impression of the object of have being represented as completely submissive to the will of the person referred to by the subject explains moreover the use of the bare infinitive with this verb : this exercise of control by the causer over the causee can be seen as persisting throughout the realization of the infinitive event . |
| 23 | Coal imports will also increase considerably probably reaching some 20% of demand by the year 2000 . |
| 24 | The DNA region upstream of DH site V was present in order to permit the isolation of a single contiguous fragment of DNA by the restriction enzymes Mlu I/Xho I ( Figure 1c ) . |
| 25 | The effects of drugs , lesions and other manipulations can readily be tested in this type of equipment by a study of their effect on the speed and directness with which the rat can find the hidden shelf . |
| 26 | Rapid recruitment into this class is largely inevitable as a result of a growing demand for this type of worker by the rapidly growing service sectors of the economy . |
| 27 | Nearly 30 years of use by the present regime have taken their toll , too . |
| 28 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 29 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 30 | By the eighteenth century there was some move towards acceptance by the smaller landlords of partible inheritance , and the shift into industrial capitalism led to legal changes which increased freedom of testation , allowing a business man greater choice in securing his business fortune . |