Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun sg] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On paper , L* looks just the ticket for the SSC — an ambitious experiment with a good pedigree , run by a famous physicist with an international set of collaborators . |
| 2 | But that could be made good , Mendoros reckons , by a joint venture with a well known local aero-engine manufacturer . |
| 3 | A booth run by a sly peasant with a Picardy accent advertised ‘ a young phenomenon ’ : it turned out to be a five-legged sheep with a tail in the shape of a trumpet . |
| 4 | The power stations may be cooled by an open circuit , when located on a river or by the sea , or by a closed circuit with a cooling tower , or again , as at Chinon , to meet environmental conditions , by forced draught . |
| 5 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |
| 6 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 7 | The er the two rooms downstairs and a like a scullery affair at the back erm they were lit by a central gas with a mantle , gas mantle you know . |
| 8 | Where the mainline brand still sticks with up-front , sporty advertising pictures , More Core Division is promoted by a tattooed ex-convict with a drug history . |
| 9 | In Roberts ' drawing of Jaffa , the old city seems to bend outwards with domes and minarets and dusty tracks , watched from a distance by a pastoral couple with a donkey . |
| 10 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 11 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 12 | ‘ I lost her , ’ Carver told him bluntly , standing by a spacious fireplace with a drink in his hand . |
| 13 | Angling was controlled by a private club with a long waiting list . |
| 14 | In no time they were installed at a table by the window and being attended by a stately woman with an enormous bosom and a monument of granite-coloured hair . |
| 15 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |
| 16 | The significance of either of these factors varied from site to site ; at times cults appear largely to have been promoted by the Church hierarchy , or by a small group with a precise , often family , interest in the new saint — this seems to be the norm for the development of the cults of the aristocratic saints of the seventh century . |
| 17 | At Montego Bay there was an overall shed backed by a long building with an elaborate tower . |
| 18 | The main colouring is bright scarlet , set off by a snow-white underside with a margin of brilliant blue spots dividing the two colours . |
| 19 | We were offered a variety of tempting odds by a rat-faced freak with a clutch of money in one hand and promissory notes in the other . |
| 20 | In Hatfield Chase today , you can see a sign put up by a local farmer with a sense of humour . |
| 21 | The eggs are clustered in the centre , each protected by a green coat with a receptive spike on the top called a stigma , on which the pollen must be placed if the eggs are to be fertilised . |
| 22 | While a conventional fountain with a standard spray pattern can be used to create a pleasing display , it has been found that , to give maximum colour density to the spray pattern , a thin columnar effect is best , and this is provided by a special jet with a larger number of fine holes . |
| 23 | 71 Brinsden J. in the Supreme Court of Western Australia also followed the Bognor Regis case in an action for libel by a non-trading corporation with a ‘ religious ’ reputation . |
| 24 | It was a story that was tinged with fabrication , told by a notorious liar with a warped sense of reality . |
| 25 | In the case of a patient such as you describe , this can be done by providing community nursing care to the patient 's own home , by providing in-patient care or by a contractual arrangement with an independent sector home ( ie paid for in full by the health authority ) . |
| 26 | This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in . |
| 27 | There was a tower observatory built by a 19th-century doctor with a view of the entire surrounding town and countryside . |
| 28 | The dose response curve for the trophic effect of gastrin is best described by a quadratic function with a maximal effect of gastrin at a plasma concentration in the range 200–500 pmol/l . |
| 29 | At the beginning of the 19th century this design was replaced by a convex sauce-boat with a ring handle on the lid , scroll handles at each end and standing in four feet . |
| 30 | We were taken to the main hall , a long lofty chamber dominated by a hammer-beamed roof with an oriel window at one end depicting the Lamb of God carrying a standard . |