Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Visions Revisited ’ , chaired by Kirsty Wark and sponsored by Historic Scotland , marked the beginning of a re-examination of Scotland 's Modern building revolution . |
| 2 | Anti-p24 was less common in OMT than in serum , a finding consistent with the results of Soto-Ramirez et al that anti-gag products were less common in OMT when analysed by western blot . |
| 3 | Everybody in the region would have to pay a new tax towards a regional assembly based on Tyneside and dominated by Labour politicians . |
| 4 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Presented by Richard Cork and narrated by Magenta de Vine , the programmes provide a lively , informative introduction to ‘ The Modern Movement ’ , intercutting live footage of events and scenes which inspired the artists . |
| 7 | On June 30 the Ukrainian parliament passed , by 264 votes to four , the amendments to the Ukrainian law on the status of the Crimea as proposed by joint sittings of the presidiums of the Ukrainian and Crimean parliaments . |
| 8 | Produced by Britain 's David Puttnam and directed by Hungarian Istvan Szabo ( ‘ Mephisto ’ ) with an international cast , it tells the chaotic story of a Paris based production of Wagner 's ‘ Tannhauser ’ by ‘ Opera Europa ’ , where ‘ you can be misunderstood in six different languages ’ . |
| 9 | The OncoMouse , developed at Harvard University by Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart and marketed by pharmaceutical giant Du Pont , became the first patented animal in 1988 . |
| 10 | Organised by the RIBA and sponsored by British Gas West Midlands , at the British Gas Conference Centre , Solihull . |
| 11 | BRITISH troops should be withdrawn from Bosnia by November and replaced by other United Nations forces , the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , indicated yesterday . |
| 12 | Despite Iran 's avowed non-alignment Soviet officials in all likelihood expected that the tide of anti-Western sentiment which swept Iran out of CENTO would open the way for a closer political affiliation with the USSR as practised by other radical states in the Non-Aligned Movement . |
| 13 | The human diseases are kuru , seen only in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea and transmitted by ritual cannibalism , and two rare but worldwide diseases — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , usually sporadic , and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease , usually inherited . |
| 14 | Its capital is Tetouan , eleven miles from M'Diq and reached by local bus , taxi or excursion coach . |
| 15 | They admitted findings were complicated by the spewing of volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and exacerbated by unusual high pressure weather conditions over Europe . |
| 16 | This disturbing profile of Afrikaners in their own backyard was drawn by David Dimbleby and directed by London-born but South Africa-educated Francis Gerard who , more than a decade later , makes his feature debut with A Private Life . |
| 17 | Parley still in progress and possibility CROA TS will withdraw into YUGOSLAVIA when faced by BRITISH troops . " |
| 18 | Presentation Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple to present him to God as required by Jewish law ( Exodus 13:1–16 ) . |
| 19 | In spite of this , Tsarism collapsed in the face of relatively weak political pressure localised to Petrograd and supported by spontaneous popular protest and strikes caused by food shortages and the long war . |
| 20 | One was paying the enemy to go away , an expedient which Æthelred adopted on several occasions , and which was also used by Alfred and envisaged by Eadred . |
| 21 | Reunion of Nam Bo with the north would be accepted by France if ratified by popular referendum . |
| 22 | Cedomir Biga , a Serbian who died on 2 September while detained by Croatian police in Dreznik , was said by police to have died from a heart attack . |
| 23 | Dominant perceptions of poverty in divided Britain as characterized by urban poverty , decay , and concentration in areas defined as ‘ inner cities ’ and inhabited by an ‘ underclass ’ call forth increasingly punitive and extremely tight-fisted selectivist policy responses . |
| 24 | NATO and Czechoslovakia co-sponsored on April 25-26 in Prague a conference on " the future of European security " , opened by Czechoslovak President Havel and attended by senior NATO personnel including the organization 's Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner . |
| 25 | It is situated in the small highland village of Carrbridge and surrounded by beautiful countryside of sweet-smelling pine trees , dark moorland and mountain peaks . |
| 26 | The detailed demographic studies of Ranunculus repens made by Sarukhán in the field at Henfaes and followed by unpublished studies by Soane made it possible to give quantitative measures to the population dynamics of this species . |
| 27 | In particular he was anxious to combat moves , initiated by the Dutch socialists in April and supported by Russian Mensheviks , for a conference of socialists from all belligerent countries in neutral Stockholm . |
| 28 | Egyptian newspapers had carried reports on Feb. 2 and 3 claiming that the security services had foiled a " sabotage attempt " by " Egyptian extremist groups " allegedly linked with the National Islamic Front in Sudan and financed by Iranian services . |
| 29 | Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better . |
| 30 | At the suggestion of the Prince of Wales and encouraged by leading environmentalist Jonathan Porritt , he contacted the Prince of Wales Business Leaders ' Forum , an international network now in its third year of aiming for global business success through good corporate citizenship and sustainable development . |