Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At municipal and provincial levels party committees were to be reduced from seven to five members who would , for the first time , be selected from lists of multiple candidates and elected by secret ballot . |
| 2 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 3 | The purpose of the award is to encourage the pursuit of excellence in Christian literature written by Australian authors and produced by Australian publishers . |
| 4 | JTPs are operating in a vacuum , with some schemes attempting to provide quality training while constrained by inadequate funds and overloaded by bureaucratic paper work . |
| 5 | Here is the archetypal mid-Wales upland village , set at a confluence of river valleys among tree-lined pastures and overlooked by forested hills . |
| 6 | Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street . |
| 7 | The garden , with all its vivacious attendant personalities , has become a vista of flat concrete , perfect for parking cars and marked by yellow lines . |
| 8 | Commentators suggested that the key factor in the Marxist MLSTP 's defeat was the country 's economic crisis , marked by labour disputes in recent months and exacerbated by collapsing world prices for the country 's economic mainstay , cocoa . |
| 9 | Male Wistar rats weighing 250–400 g were killed and strips of colonic circular smooth muscle were attached to isotonic transducers ( Harvard , Kent , England ) in 2 ml organ baths and perfused by oxygenated ( 95% O 2 , 5% CO 2 ) Krebs Henseleit solution , composition : ( mM/l ) NaCl 118 ; KCl 4.69 ; MgCl 2 1.13 ; CaCl 2 2.56 ; NaHCO 3 20 ; NaHPO 4 1.15 ; glucose 5.5 . |
| 10 | Perhaps there would be some trenchant criticism of the accounting techniques used by some significant companies and sanctioned by eminent auditors , or new ideas about the direction that accounting standards might take . |
| 11 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is a delightful duckpond , in the village , fed from within by more springs and edged by overhanging willows , creating a picturesque scene . |
| 14 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 15 | They had , these dastardly ‘ Poles ’ , been caught committing terror acts and killed by brave SS units in the ensuing battle . |
| 16 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 17 | It already has the Patriots ( deployed round the country 's main cities and manned by American crews until Israeli servicemen can be trained to use them ) and the almost permanent presence of America 's deputy secretary of state , Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 18 | Moody and Eclipse — built by Marine Projects and distributed by Marine Secol , Britain 's largest and most caring dealer . |
| 19 | The cake itself , it should not be forgotten , is the regular and unsensational intake of current British maps and atlases by legal deposit . |
| 20 | Factors related to early mortality in cirrhotic patients bleeding from varices and treated by urgent sclerotherapy |
| 21 | The Oxford English Dictionary defines a game as ‘ a contest played according to rules and decided by superior skill , strength or good fortune ’ . |
| 22 | He took her to a surprisingly small room furnished with dark leather sofas and lit by harsh gas light . |
| 23 | " The concept of the Labour aristocracy has had its value in drawing attention to differences within the working class but if it implies the existence … of a labour elite distinctly separated from lower strata and marked by political behaviour of an acquiescent type then it is a concept that does more harm than good to historical truth " . |
| 24 | The ‘ higher criticism ’ , examining the Bible as one would any other ancient text , only impinged on the Church of England in 1860 with the publication of Essays and Reviews by various authors including Frederick Temple and Benjamin Jowett . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The whole idea of this experiment , as I see it , is that everyone in it is going to decide , and carry out , much of what is now decided by experts and provided by big organisations . |
| 27 | Fittings by Cochrane are sold as accessories and used by other kite manufacturers . |
| 28 | Across the yard in the oast house , hops fresh from this year 's harvest are placed in a kiln for 12 to 14 hours and heated by electric fans at temperatures starting at 90 degrees F and rising to 140° . |
| 29 | He paints a picture of the king 's day , starting with his religious observance , and running through his holding court , surrounded by barbarian troops and approached by foreign legates , his tour of the royal stables , his restrained lunch , followed by a game of dice , his hearing of litigants , and dinner . |
| 30 | Jewry 's role in the revolutions of the 19th and 20th Centuries are also brought to light , from leading the 1798 French Revolution to the origins of Communism and the 1917 Russian Revolution , a revolution financed by New York 's Jewish-owned Wall Street Banks and led by imported American Jewish revolutionaries . |