Example sentences of "by an [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is followed by an exploration of certain circumstances which may present a particular set of difficulties for clients , their families and the social worker . |
| 2 | In the course of return visits to Tehran and Isfahan in 1977 , I was continually struck by an air of impending serious troubles like those I remembered engulfing the country in 1963 . |
| 3 | The war itself gave an immense stimulus to trade , leading to an increase of 60 per cent in Japanese exports in 1950 to be followed by an increase of similar proportion in 1951 on the 1950 figures . |
| 4 | After bowel resection , crypt cell proliferative activity increases , resulting in increased functional enterocyte numbers , which are accommodated by an increase of villus height . |
| 5 | The plan was carried by an alliance of Liberal Democrat councillors and the breakaway Liverpool Labour Councillors group . |
| 6 | Promoted by an alliance of environmental groups and backed by film stars and a $10 million advertising campaign , the bill initially looked set to pass , but was finally defeated by a decisive 64-36 per cent . |
| 7 | In a north Indian town recently , a Hindu woman was prevented from marrying a Muslim and forced to marry a Hindu by an alliance of Hindu and Muslim militants . |
| 8 | Any information or documentation coming into the Commission 's possession as a result of the exercise of their powers under the competition rules are covered by an obligation of professional secrecy . |
| 9 | It was only by an act of supreme will that she was finally able to wrench her mouth from his to look up at him with angry , blazing eyes . |
| 10 | But Kerrigan has a keyed-up , visionary quality which , though it does not overlook these drawbacks , manages to see beyond them by an act of moral imagination to the purposed end . |
| 11 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 12 | The Eddie was not called forth by an act of human will . |
| 13 | Churchill 's Black Dog may be marred by cut-price literary criticism , and its construction may be slapdash , but its armature is a belief that people can , by an act of creative will , save their souls at any stage , that fundamental personal change is possible after 40 , 50 , even 60 . |
| 14 | YESTERDAY was the anniversary of the Enniskillen bombing , when a Remembrance Day crowd was cut down by an act of indiscriminate terrorism . |
| 15 | Kolve , however , would argue even this moral content away , suggesting that possible religious images are systematically emptied of their moral potential in the telling of the tale , to celebrate " " the possible sovereignty of comic order within the world of daily life , a world temporarily — by an act of imaginative exclusion — unshadowed by Last Things " " : Noah 's Flood really is transformed into " " Nowelis flood " " . |
| 16 | First , he saw himself as charged with a mission ( that of maintaining peace and unity ) which he could not simply renounce by an act of free will . |
| 17 | It was also commonly described by an interpretation of modern society as ‘ mass society ’ , in which such different elements as very large audiences , relative ‘ impersonality ’ of transmission or ‘ anonymity ’ of reception , and the ‘ unorganized heterogeneity ’ of ‘ democratic and commercial ’ societies were fused and indeed confused . |
| 18 | The later years of her long and successful life were troubled , alas , by an excess of curious and unannounced visitors in addition to the genuine and eminent gardeners whom she welcomed . |
| 19 | This demonstrated that both PA-Oct-11 and PA-Oct-2 were able to bind to an octamer motif in vitro and that this binding was competed by an excess of unlabelled probe DNA . |
| 20 | It could then be speculated that the high concentrations of α-linolenic acid ( which is exclusively from dietary origin ) , might be the result of a negative feed back effect upon delta-6 desaturase activity , mediated by an excess of docosahexaenoic acid ( C22:6n3 ) , the final product of this series . |
| 21 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 22 | Turkey claimed that its action had been provoked by an escalation of Kurdish attacks on the armed forces in the south-east of the country . |
| 23 | Their sensitivity to criticism in this context was made clear by an officer of considerable experience : |
| 24 | I am confronted by an explosion of non-verbal , verbal , written and tactile clues . |
| 25 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 26 | ( For example , they hide the fact that significantly higher wages were earned by an elite of urban craftsmen . |
| 27 | Here again there is an attempt at finding more flexible modes of negotiation between the tradition of " literary culture " and contemporary student experience : " My motives also included a more protestant kind of regression , to reestablish links between literary culture — cherished and transmitted by an elite of abstract expertise — and experience . " |
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| 29 | Also , of course , a trust is at liberty to raise new capital by an issue of additional ordinary or debenture shares . |
| 30 | Education , on the other hand , is a public service without a keen sense of direct ownership and is managed by an agglomeration of national and local groups . |