Example sentences of "[adj] by the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The importance of considering the task which the subject is actually performing is made clear by the difference in results obtained from studies using different tasks during the arousal manipulation .
2 ‘ I have to admit to being rather staggered by the number of jail-birds the club accommodates .
3 Yet the confusion in Dohuk , a Kurdish city left empty by the flight of refugees , shows how all decisions hung on an autonomy agreement .
4 We ate in the London Zoo and our meals were made interesting by the chatter of monkeys and the roar of lions in the background .
5 The application of a force to a simple liquid of low molar mass is relieved by the flow of molecules past one another into new positions in the system .
6 The formality is often relieved by the presence of dogs , by far the favourite breed being white Pomeranians .
7 He nodded towards the far corner , an island of space miraculously untouched by the tide of bodies crammed into the main room of the inn .
8 Few people are untouched by the predicament of homeowners and Julia Somerville with Julian Manyon succeeded in making a complex subject perfectly understandable and utterly depressing .
9 Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) .
10 In talking to women at grassroots level in this country , I have been alarmed by the number of women who have undergone caesarean sections .
11 Thus , for Behaviouralists , the task of explaining international relations is not made impossible by the existence of ideologies and religions , each with its own internal meanings .
12 Wives , becoming less absorbed as babies become more clearly their own persons , but often remaining tied , tired or bored by the demands of toddlers , perhaps feeling lonely and lacking enough external stimulus , may similarly find themselves resenting and envying what they see as their husbands ' ‘ freedom ’ of action .
13 SCOTVEC is delighted by the response of centres to Phase 2 of the Advanced Courses Development Programme .
14 Faber has been delighted by the response from booksellers to its £100,000 ‘ How to become a millionaire ’ spring promotion .
15 They were dismayed by the crop of books and articles which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wales 's marriage and Diana 's 30th birthday .
16 Deciding which to use and where is obviously important , a theme that has been explored before on these pages , but many users seem bewildered by the range of typefaces that are available .
17 Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack .
18 She was confused , upset and bewildered by the train of events .
19 Some readers may be confused by the discussion of events ( sometimes called transactions ) , which function-oriented concepts , when data analysis is supposed to be function-independent .
20 Many parents become very confused by the range of professionals that they see and will call everyone doctor .
21 The survey , which covered 225 branch managers and 857 account holding customers , also found that two thirds of the managers believed their customers were confused by the range of products and services on offer .
22 In Shetland the situation is a bit confused by the migration of birds from other , usually more northerly areas .
23 The pictures can be down-loaded by the school to computers in its feeder primary schools .
24 Labour was horrified by the prospect of cuts .
25 If the laws of science are unchanged by the combination of operations C and P , and also by the combination C , P , and T , they must also be unchanged under the operation T alone .
26 Setting the objectives , then , is at least moderately straightforward , though it can be made more complex by the addition of sub-objectives relating to secondary groups of consumers , and there is always room for argument as to how much it is realistic to expect to achieve .
27 The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans .
28 The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) .
29 Unremarkable by the standards of police officers , that is .
30 Above us the decapitated heads of traitors , crowned with laurels or ivy , gazed down at us , their eyes and mouths turned black by the pecking of ravens .
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