Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daily output of faeces was slightly enhanced by dietary calcium and decreased by dietary phosphate ( Table I ) . |
| 2 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 3 | The cake itself , it should not be forgotten , is the regular and unsensational intake of current British maps and atlases by legal deposit . |
| 4 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 5 | A number of studies have investigated the disorders of defecation in spinally injured people , but most involve patients with incomplete lesions at different sites and caused by different mechanisms . |
| 6 | Not when they were in a public place and surrounded by other people . |
| 7 | For instance , enabling a robot to recognise a wide variety of objects in different positions and lighting-conditions is currently beyond the state of the art , as is building a robot or desk-computer that will understand many different sentences , on different topics and spoken by different speakers . |
| 8 | This was a position which also continued to express the preference of most abolitionists that government intervention be limited to policy guidelines to be rendered into detailed legislation and implemented by local assemblies and officials except in the Crown Colonies . |
| 9 | We recognise that local authorities are under a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service and that they may wish to stock a range of material about homosexuality , dealing with homosexual themes or written by homosexual authors . |
| 10 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 11 | This may be due to eagerness to get to bed or to various other factors including lack of sleep , worry about contacting more senior surgical staff , lack of proper training or control by senior staff , and pressure not to leave matters that may interrupt the next day 's elective list . |
| 12 | After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America . |
| 13 | ‘ We are a British organisation charged with promoting British produce and financed by British producers , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 14 | However , the Peking Youth News has reported that ‘ many people ’ are worried about the high incidence of wrongful arrest and torture by martial law forces and police . |
| 15 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 16 | When Vice-President Nixon toured the area in 1958 he was pelted with rotten eggs and jostled by angry demonstrators . |
| 17 | Tunstall described it as ‘ intermingling heretical articles and erroneous opinions , seducing the simple people and attempting by wicked and perverse interpretations to profane the majesty of the Scripture , and craftily abuse the most holy word of God ’ . |
| 18 | As the roots begin to break out of the grains the barley is transferred to a vast hall heated with warm air and turned by large malt shovels . |
| 19 | Speaking from behind a barred gate and protected by armed guards the unnamed brother said : ‘ We would n't be surprised that because of that book someone sought retribution , and has tried to take out all Ian 's seed , which is a Middle Eastern style of doing things . |
| 20 | There are also a large number of agencies and bodies which are not actually part of central government departments but which are funded by central government and staffed by civil servants and which perform public functions : examples include the Equal Opportunities Commission , the Police Complaints Authority , the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and prison authorities . |
| 21 | Subsistence agriculture , based on a feudal system of land tenure , gave way to large private estates owned by Muslim lords and worked by Christian tied labourers . |
| 22 | So they have little screws to , you know , to go into the bone and little er delicate instruments which are highly developed instruments and manufactured by certain pattern . |
| 23 | A majority ( May and Balcombe L.JJ. ) , considering substantial additional material and encouraged by academic criticism of the first decision , held that ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ not only could but should be given an ‘ international ’ interpretation . |
| 24 | Rear Suspension — Two transverse torsion bars are located within a hollow tube and operated by trailing arms . |
| 25 | For all children in care , a comprehensive system of community homes is now being developed , organized on a regional basis and managed by local authorities or by voluntary organizations in collaboration with local authorities . |
| 26 | One of the most useful sources of documentary evidence is that afforded by maps and plans , particularly if they are of large estates and augmented by written records . |
| 27 | They find their way to alternative allergists because they read articles in newspapers and magazines that are written by naive journalists or planted by efficient public relations experts . |
| 28 | The purpose of the award is to encourage the pursuit of excellence in Christian literature written by Australian authors and produced by Australian publishers . |
| 29 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 30 | In a word , the past year , especially , has confronted us with the problem of ‘ our crises ’ , which are the result of the initial stages of a transition economy in a country with a backward , petty-bourgeois population and surrounded by hostile forces . |