Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Poles finally repulsed the Russian counter-attack , they sponsored an independent bourgeois republic , which in due course was recognized by Moscow . |
| 2 | Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen . |
| 3 | Amongst the employed families living on the Mount Pleasant Estate , 51.2 per cent of their total income was claimed by rent and ‘ other necessary expenditure ’ ; in unemployed families the figure rose to 60.6 per cent . |
| 4 | The first dated coin was issued by Valdemar II of Denmark in 1234 , but this is an isolated and untypical example , and dates became a frequent part of the design only from the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | His strong defence was supported by authority members , convened in a small working party to investigate the allegations . |
| 6 | The interim award was won by Bishopsgate Investment Management , which ran the Mirror Group scheme and is seeking to recover the missing millions . |
| 7 | The city council has still not published an official notice telling the traders of the changes more than SIX months after the controversial decision was approved by councillors . |
| 8 | Further support for the suggestion that the magnetic field has a substantial poloidal component is provided by observations of γ -rays . |
| 9 | London 's complaint that National Power had breached non-discrimination rules was rejected by Prof Littlechild . |
| 10 | The banks who held the great majority of private accounts were divided by Joslin into two groups . |
| 11 | Routine support and crisis support Emotional support is given by relatives in a wide range of circumstances , not only in crises . |
| 12 | A MOTORCYCLIST on a stolen bike was stopped by police for not wearing a crash helmet , Colwyn Bay magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 13 | The story implicit in this description of the general pattern of regional change is reinforced by Champion 's analysis at the more detailed county and district levels . |
| 14 | MAJOR Courage Quarshigah and Jacob Yidana together with 15 other political prisoners were released by Ghana 's ruling Provisional National Defence Council on 20 March 1992 . |
| 15 | The fact that the announcement of Castro 's new economic course was ignored by Izvestiia , Pravda , New Times and International Affairs is additional evidence for the argument that at this stage Moscow was interested in restraining , rather than fostering , radicalisation of the Cuban revolution . |
| 16 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 17 | Who would emerge as the key personality and how far would Korean communism be controlled by Moscow ? |
| 18 | In all , well over sixty different specific activities were listed by heads in this context , including cooking for special occasions , a paired play project with a neighbouring special school , and the development of links with local elderly people . |
| 19 | The introduction of eight mainstream products was accompanied by seminars in four countries and a comprehensive package of marketing support material . |
| 20 | The element of parental responsibility is preserved by paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 under which a parent of a child who is the subject of an ESO commits an offence ( maximum fine £400 ) for failing to comply with any directions given by the supervisor . |
| 21 | Something of the same emotional patterns are evinced by managers through the metaphors and myths of management which they carry in their minds . |
| 22 | Charles 's low plea was interrupted by Guy , who was slowly turning the stem of the cut-glass wine goblet in front of him , watching the reflection of candlelight in the dark burgundy . |
| 23 | The methods of calculation for the Cornfield confidence intervals and the population and relative attributable risks are given by Breslow and Day . |
| 24 | Somewhat improbably this creature of advanced civilisation was produced by means of a liberal education in the semi-barbarous institution of the English public school . |
| 25 | After the Hastings Conference of 1933 an Association of Constituency Labour Parties was projected by members who were dissatisfied with the preponderance of the trade unions . |
| 26 | Such inducements to good sense on the part of slaveholders and their political supporters were underlined by assertions about population increase and rising revenues from the enfranchisement of former serf villages in Poland . |
| 27 | Optimism about an economic upswing was clouded by signs of popular opposition to the government 's liberalization measures , some of which were seen as a prelude to job losses in the public sector . |
| 28 | Technical appraisals are conducted by workers at Cranfield Institute of Technology who are expert in the area involved . |
| 29 | α 1 -microglobulin concentrations were measured by enzyme immunoassay using an identical methodology to that described for transferrin . |
| 30 | Fr Bernard 's years as an assistant priest were marked by enthusiasm and expertise over the whole range of his work , not least in the Scout Movement — finally as Assistant Commissioner — and in the schools and at Endsleigh Convent and College . |