Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [coord] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 2 | They are quoted on the Stock Exchange and underwritten by similar institutions to those which underwrite share issues . |
| 3 | Prices , based on accommodation located centrally or in Frankfurt suburbs , include a fair entrance ticket and travel by scheduled airline from UK airports , including Heathrow , Gatwick and Stansted . |
| 4 | Gastrointestinal symptoms were grouped into upper gastrointestinal , which comprised dysphagia , heartburn , nausea , vomiting , upper abdominal pain ( and its relief by food or antacids ) or lower gastrointestinal comprising changed bowel habit , diarrhoea , constipation , rectal bleeding or lower abdominal pain ( colicky , associated with changed bowel habit or relieved by passing stool or flatus ) . |
| 5 | There is a comfortable bar , a lounge and a panoramic restaurant , and outside , a sea water swimming pool is set in a large sun terrace and surrounded by overhanging trees . |
| 6 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 7 | Moreover , the Umgeni River near the plant , which is used for drinking water and bathing by local people , is alleged to be dangerously polluted with mercury . |
| 8 | The Urban Foundation , a private group funded by South African business interests and supported by multinational companies and foreign backers , on Oct. 5 , 1989 , announced the establishment of a R3,000 million mortgage loan programme to give low-income black families access to mortgage finance . |
| 9 | Students on a timber framing course surrounded by coracles and pole lathes and overlooked by modern architecture |
| 10 | Male Wistar rats weighing 250–400 g were killed and strips of colonic circular smooth muscle were attached to isotonic transducers ( Harvard , Kent , England ) in 2 ml organ baths and perfused by oxygenated ( 95% O 2 , 5% CO 2 ) Krebs Henseleit solution , composition : ( mM/l ) NaCl 118 ; KCl 4.69 ; MgCl 2 1.13 ; CaCl 2 2.56 ; NaHCO 3 20 ; NaHPO 4 1.15 ; glucose 5.5 . |
| 11 | The garden , with all its vivacious attendant personalities , has become a vista of flat concrete , perfect for parking cars and marked by yellow lines . |
| 12 | The latter , recommended by The Warnock Report ( DES 1978 ) , was established in law by the 1981 Education Act and supported by subsequent advice to professionals issued by the DES ( 1983 , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | The ceremony adopting the Constitution was boycotted by a number of Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) and other opposition Assembly members and accompanied by mass protests in Sofia . |
| 14 | In general , the property of the non-conformist churches is administered either directly by the denominational headquarters as managing trustees , or else legally held by this body as custodian trustee and managed by honourary officials from the local church membership . |
| 15 | They had , these dastardly ‘ Poles ’ , been caught committing terror acts and killed by brave SS units in the ensuing battle . |
| 16 | Anaesthetised mice were placed supine on cork boards and steadied by elastic bands around the four limbs . |
| 17 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
| 18 | In some , the kitchen is on the ground floor and accessed by open stair and has three picture windows on three sides . |
| 19 | The memory node itself is a small conducting region connected to an external circuit by a multiple tunnel junction and controlled by special gate capacitors . |
| 20 | However , in the mid eighties an amazing transformation began starting with an initiative led by the Worth Valley Railway and developed by affiliated groups , namely the Vintage Carriages Trust and the Bahamas Locomotive Society . |
| 21 | In February , the Bibliothèque des Arts will publish L'âge d'or espagnol by David Boone and , in April , a Dictionnaire des peintres de l'Ecole de Paris , having recently brought out the fifth volume of the catalogue raisonné of Theodore Gericault , complete with a critical study and documentary material and edited by Germain Bazin . |
| 22 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 23 | To start with , all the used fuel assemblies would have to be unloaded from the reactor core and transported by special container either to Sellafield or to a storage site . |
| 24 | When the Minister meets those representatives — if not before — will he be able to tell them that the Government support the amendment to the Further and Higher Education Bill , which has been promoted by the National Youth Agency and the British Youth Council and backed by hon. Members from all parties ? |
| 25 | The reaction was then stopped , and the transcripts produced analyzed by primer extension and detected by polyacrylamide-urea gel electrophoresis and autoradiography . |
| 26 | The reaction was then stopped , and the transcripts produced analyzed by primer extension and detected by polyacrylamide-urea gel electrophoresis and autoradiography . |
| 27 | The reaction was then stopped , and the transcripts produced analyzed by primer extension and detected by polyacrylamide-urea gel electrophoresis and autoradiography . |
| 28 | This fascinating Berber village is 2000ft. above sea level and surrounded by majestic mountain scenery . |
| 29 | Preston had become a shoddy place to live , dominated by smoky factory chimneys and characterized by blackened rows of brick , terraced houses or crowded , insanitary courts and , worst of all , dark , damp cellars . |
| 30 | Blair 's Aberdeenshire home was a less perilous residence , a delightful cottage at Shivas , set amidst mature woodlands , loud with bird song and surrounded by rich , fertile fields . |