Example sentences of "[num] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the dominant theme of the Macrory recommendations with respect to the distribution and control of services between Stormont ( the Northern Ireland Parliament which has since 1971 been replaced by direct rule from Westminster ) and local government was to emphasize the role of service professionals and experts , since ‘ sensible ’ and ‘ spontaneous ’ social democratic politics were absent ’ ( Tomlinson , 1980 , p. 114 ) . |
| 2 | The Legislative Assembly of Macao , enlarged under the new 1990 organic Law [ see below ] , has 23 members , of whom seven are government appointees , eight are indirectly elected by business associations and eight are elected by direct universal suffrage . |
| 3 | The Legislative Assembly of Macao comprises 23 members , of whom seven are government appointees , eight are indirectly elected by business associations and eight are elected by direct universal suffrage . |
| 4 | Of the total seats , 75 are filled by direct election and 25 on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 5 | who stated in his Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer 's Drawing Book ( 1793 ) that the Hepplewhite Guide had ‘ already caught the decline ’ in design standards , a third edition was issued in 1794 containing new or altered plates , in which many curvilinear or shield-back chairs and sofas of 1788 are replaced by neat rectilinear forms in the French style , which Sheraton had derived from Henry Holland [ q.v. ] |
| 6 | Scott 's research show that among the top 250 British enterprises in 1976 , 43 were controlled by personal shareholders , 71 by corporate owners , and 110 by a mixture ( Scott , 1985 , p. 77 ) . |
| 7 | Apart from these , only four other PJC-2s were ordered by private pilots and together with the prototype , eleven were sold when the need to build-up America 's defences led to a curb on the use of strategic materials and production ceased . |
| 8 | The framework set out in Figure 7.5 is provided by Tough as a guide for teachers when identifying uses of language ‘ which they are probably already fostering , either intuitively or with some deliberation ’ . |
| 9 | A construction worker in the year 2084 is haunted by recurring dreams of a previous existence on Mars . |
| 10 | In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane . |
| 11 | The autonomy which the Serbian Church had enjoyed since the creation of the patriarchate in 1346 was replaced by centralised control from Constantinople by the compliant Greek Phanariot clergy , who were considered by the Turkish administration to be the proper representatives of their Christian subjects . |
| 12 | 1879 was occupied by great debates on a new Scheme of Management for the School , with little immediate result , apart from the founding of a £40 scholarship for University entrants . |
| 13 | That of Orléans in 533 was held by royal order , ex praeceptione gloriosissimorum regum . |
| 14 | The age cohorts who in the 1980s constitute the very old population over 85 are characterized by high rates of childlessness . |
| 15 | The classical target genes for pol III are controlled by different intragenic , discontinuous promoter sequences which can be divided in two subclasses , the AC-type ( 5S-rRNA ) and the AB-type [ t-RNA , VA-RNA 's , 7SL-RNA , EBER ; ( 2 ) ] which differ in their factor requirement . |
| 16 | The branch plant manufacturing industries which arrived after 1963 were attracted by generous regional subsidies ( see Robinson et al. , |
| 17 | The band visible at the bottom of lane 10 is caused by methylated oligonucleotide and reflects the small but significant activity of the mutant enzyme discussed in detail above . |
| 18 | A downward trend after 1979 was caused by industrial recession and use of North Sea gas , reaching 3.8 million tonnes by 1987 . |
| 19 | This finding that increased intestinal release of IL-8 was accompanied by increased release of myeloperoxidase , however , makes IL-8 a possible factor for local activation of polymorphonuclear granulocytes in this disease . |
| 20 | Of the existing dozen letters passed between Chelsea and Kingsessing , 1755–1760 , nine are published in William Darlington 's Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall ( 1849 , 1967 ) and three are held by American Libraries . |
| 21 | About 600 are employed by Corporate Jets at Broughton and a further 300 are employed on the Broughton site by Airbus , making wings and fuselages for the 125 on contract . |
| 22 | The pattern of relative abundance of Ichneumonidae is quite different : nearly a third of the 455 species trapped during 1972–73 were represented by single individuals , and the seven commonest species made up only 22 per cent of the catch . |
| 23 | Half of all maternal deaths in the US in 1975 were caused by contraceptive complications . |
| 24 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 25 | Interestingly , ICAM-1 is shed by colonic carcinoma cells because soluble sICAM-1 was detected in the cell culture supernatants . |
| 26 | At the outset , the introduction of the MDC was opposed by local authorities . |
| 27 | A police officers ' strike on May 21 was followed by similar action by firemen and customs officers . |
| 28 | There are about 60,000 solicitors in practice , of whom over 3,000 are employed by commercial and industrial organisations . |
| 29 | The determination of IgG subclasses 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 were made by radial immunodiffusion with the use of monoclonal antibodies purchased from Seward Laboratories , UK . |
| 30 | The list of the 13 largest relative population gains between 1971 and 1981 is dominated by new towns , but rural areas , some very remote , feature prominently ( see table 4.3 ) . |