Example sentences of "by a row of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their place has been taken by a row of ‘ Argenta ’ leeks raised in the seed bed and dibbled into 6in holes spaced about a foot apart . |
| 2 | One non-charity Christmas stamp will be available , at 15p — the most popular price for Christmas cards — featuring four peasants framed by a row of Gothic arches . |
| 3 | The full-height enclosed stair tower makes a powerful statement , with its curved plaster wall painted in an orange ‘ parchment ’ effect , and punctured by a row of square windows with steel riveted frames . |
| 4 | The chosen venue was the auspiciously grand lecture theatre at the Victoria & Albert Museum , the presentations simultaneously interpreted by a row of translators — a reminder of the event 's global significance . |
| 5 | The tenement building we moved from is now gone ( as is the one we moved to ) , replaced by a row of council blocks of impressive ugliness , vintage early sixties . |
| 6 | Premultiplication by a row of A gives 4 = 2.5 ; completion of the solution is straightforward . |
| 7 | For all its great altitude , the view from the top of the Col du Tourmalet is much less open and memorable than many , blocked as it is to the south by a row of peaks and overpowered immediately to the north by the bulk of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , which is a most assertive mountain . |
| 8 | This was followed by a row of cold sweets , including trifles , blancmanges , jellies , or a choice of cheeses or both for some of the younger , still-growing guests ! |
| 9 | Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ) presented subjects with a lexical decision task in which the target item was either preceded by an incomplete sentence , or by a row of Xs . |
| 10 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 11 | He trudged the maze of little streets , sometimes on the edge of the sea , sometimes , and unpredictably , separated from it by a row of cottages . |
| 12 | The hall dates from the ninth century and is divided in the centre by a row of four circular columns with simple leaf capitals , like the design in S. John 's Chapel in the Tower of London ( 300 ) . |
| 13 | Then , turning to his right , he came to a stretch of well-trimmed lawn that sloped down to the river , the far bank of which was policed by a row of severely pollarded willow trees . |
| 14 | She was in the kitchen area now , divided from the rest of the downstairs by a row of cupboards that ran out at waist-height halfway across the room . |