Example sentences of "by a [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to succeed in selling , against Japanese competition , the product left to it by a conventionally organised British motor cycle industry which had already admitted defeat ; and sales were not keeping pace with production . |
| 2 | These should be carried out and applied by a properly trained multidisciplinary team . |
| 3 | The establishment and maintenance of peace was the primary aim of idealists , and this was to be achieved through the spread of liberal democracy and through international law , administered by a newly created international organization , the League of Nations . |
| 4 | These reforms are to be coordinated by a newly created Public Competition and Purchasing Unit in the Treasury . |
| 5 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 6 | Some ballets by them soon joined Beauty in the Covent Garden programmes , others were given by a newly formed second company at the Wells . |
| 7 | Meanwhile on May 29 the National Assembly approved an economic recovery plan drawn up by a newly appointed economic adviser , Alassane Ouattara , president of the West African Central Bank , in conjunction with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 8 | It seems most odd that a genteel seventy-year-old spinster , or her executors , would want to have the body embalmed by a newly hatched 29-year-old surgeon . |
| 9 | Also , alkali concentrations were determined in salivary , oesophageal , and gastric samples by a previously described sensitive back titration technique . |
| 10 | This can be reached by a well maintained serpentine path down the steep slope . |
| 11 | The whole of the works is very satisfactorily protected by a well laid high pressure system of water mains and hydrants and what with this and the excellent brigade , the risk of excessive damage by fire is reduced to a minimum . |
| 12 | There are passages of great beauty in the play , sustained by a perfectly adjusted theatrical cadence . |
| 13 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 14 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 15 | The result was a clear , useful , personalised word-board created on the computer , printed , laminated and attached to Henry by a spontaneously formed self-help group . |
| 16 | However , although the problems posed by a densely populated industrial area will differ in degree and kind from those in a large rural catchment with a scattered population and little industry besides farming , the fundamental approach is the same . |
| 17 | The general strike was called on May 16 by a recently formed independent union umbrella group , the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Albania ( UITUA ) . |
| 18 | Michigan Department of Mental Health , in which an inmate was offered the choice between experimental surgery with the possibility of release and continued incarceration , and the Court held that consent could not be given by an involuntarily detained mental patient . |
| 19 | Even worse , the Conservative plan was for the elected councillors for these authorities to be replaced by nominees from the second-tier borough councils , which in London involved the replacement of an elected Labour majority by an indirectly elected Conservative majority . |
| 20 | At the same time , Nietzsche 's stance , though extremely favourable , is still critical , and his enthusiasm is qualified by a certain self-conscious humour : witness the blandly ironic use of " wholesome " ( ein Gesunder ) and the self-deflating " etc. " , which in the German original is preceded by an extravagantly formulated double rhyme : die ethische Luft , der faustische Duft , Kreuz , Tod und Gruft etc . |