Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision followed strong reactions by the US administration and the UN to an incident earlier in the day , when Iraq troops had fired shots in the air allegedly to deny UN inspectors access to a nuclear weapons site , which was itself the culmination of a series of such refusals by Iraq . |
| 2 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 3 | The ceasefire provided for the withdrawal and disarming of all armed groups by the end of 1991 , excepting only the Soviet troops stationed there . |
| 4 | On Aug. 10 the liberation of prisoners resumed with simultaneous releases by the government and UNITA , and further exchanges during the month . |
| 5 | It represents positive results in 75 per cent of games , with 32 wins by the home side and 22 by the visitors . |
| 6 | When one considers that the official State Academy of Arts did not allow women to study there until 1919 , one can imagine how many women were given the chance of becoming professional artists by the mere existence of this institution which attracted tutors of the calibre of Karl Stauffer-Bern , who taught Kathe Kollwitz . |
| 7 | Despite extensive plans by the consortium for landscaping , the conservationists claim the dump would turn into an eyesore . |
| 8 | Row upon row of sunburnt bodies , oiled like sardines , covered the beaches of Spanish resorts by the early 1970s . |
| 9 | Virgin last night refused to comment , but estimates are that the deal could be worth well in excess of £50m , making it one of the largest investments by a Japanese organisation in a UK company . |
| 10 | Large and small shellfish companies have applied for Several Orders , and they are being promoted for environmental and economic reasons by the industry body , the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers . |
| 11 | The Directive made the adoption of this defence optional and , despite strenuous attempts by the consumer lobby to have it rejected , the government included it in the Act . |
| 12 | It follows , therefore , that the constraint imposed on the conduct of national monetary policies by the irrevocable fixity of intra-union exchange rates implies that there is no real difference between a currency union and an exchange rate union in terms of the degree of monetary autonomy enjoyed by the union member countries . |
| 13 | Dreaming can on the other hand be seen as having a function in resolving emotional conflicts by a process of emotional integration . |
| 14 | He talked about how many of the young players this week would be tempted into professional ranks by the golden vision of all the money that is there to be earned on the circuit . |
| 15 | The decree will come into effect at other European operations by the end of January . |
| 16 | With studies of metabolic activity there are still problems with calculating how much of the radioactivity in any part of the brain should be attributed to the utilization of metabolic fuels by the areas concerned , rather than simple uptake . |
| 17 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 18 | They managed to increase this share to almost 53 per cent of the personal sector 's liquid savings by the mid-1980s . |
| 19 | Whether it 's simply the right songs by the right band at the right time , who knows . |
| 20 | This series restores to the catalogue a number of outstanding performances by the pianist Michel Béroff . |
| 21 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 22 | The FAO bull was greeted with extensive speeches by the president , entertained on the diplomatic circuit , and amid much pomp and ceremony was eventually sent to work in the fields . |
| 23 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 24 | From somewhere in the capital , by our intrepid reporter : The dog dirt injected into my pulsing thighs by a beautiful buck-naked half-robot half-Samoan woman was finally starting to take effect . |
| 25 | The two schoolgirls were raped at knife-point in a deserted Brixton garage forty-five times by a gang of youths , after attempting to return home by bus from a pop concert . |
| 26 | Rathore 's government , dominated by the Azad Kashmir People 's Party , had resigned on March 31 , complaining of " repeated attempts by the opposition Moslem Conference to topple the government through unconstitutional means " . |
| 27 | The growth of competition put paid to repeated attempts by the railways and the political authorities to establish a financially viable railway . |
| 28 | Since then , various parts have been occupied at different times by a multitude of smaller firms . |
| 29 | This comes clearly into focus with a realisation that the differences in recall at different times by the same person are to be understood through this creativity process . |
| 30 | The 1967/68 procedure was essentially repeated in 1980/ 81 , with the addition of regional public meetings by the Authority . |