Example sentences of "[adj] by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued that enterprises would not reduce their prices but simply would accumulate stocks of finished goods , financing this by the issue of bills of exchange . |
| 2 | You can generally tell this by the sort of questions you are asked ; |
| 3 | Multiplying this by the number of pages is enough to show a rough total , which should tally adequately with tutors ' estimates and impressions ( since they wo n't count the individual words either ) . |
| 4 | These discussions were not , perhaps , made any easier by the change of ministers at the DES in September 1981 when Sir Keith Joseph became Secretary of State and William Waldegrave his junior minister with responsibility for higher education . |
| 5 | Constitutional proposals were published on Aug. 12 by the committee of experts established in June by the Provisional National Defence Council ( PNDC ) government [ see p. 38279 ] . |
| 6 | ‘ I have to admit to being rather staggered by the number of jail-birds the club accommodates . |
| 7 | Yet the confusion in Dohuk , a Kurdish city left empty by the flight of refugees , shows how all decisions hung on an autonomy agreement . |
| 8 | We ate in the London Zoo and our meals were made interesting by the chatter of monkeys and the roar of lions in the background . |
| 9 | The application of a force to a simple liquid of low molar mass is relieved by the flow of molecules past one another into new positions in the system . |
| 10 | The formality is often relieved by the presence of dogs , by far the favourite breed being white Pomeranians . |
| 11 | He nodded towards the far corner , an island of space miraculously untouched by the tide of bodies crammed into the main room of the inn . |
| 12 | Few people are untouched by the predicament of homeowners and Julia Somerville with Julian Manyon succeeded in making a complex subject perfectly understandable and utterly depressing . |
| 13 | In talking to women at grassroots level in this country , I have been alarmed by the number of women who have undergone caesarean sections . |
| 14 | Thus , for Behaviouralists , the task of explaining international relations is not made impossible by the existence of ideologies and religions , each with its own internal meanings . |
| 15 | SCOTVEC is delighted by the response of centres to Phase 2 of the Advanced Courses Development Programme . |
| 16 | They were dismayed by the crop of books and articles which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wales 's marriage and Diana 's 30th birthday . |
| 17 | Deciding which to use and where is obviously important , a theme that has been explored before on these pages , but many users seem bewildered by the range of typefaces that are available . |
| 18 | Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack . |
| 19 | She was confused , upset and bewildered by the train of events . |
| 20 | Some readers may be confused by the discussion of events ( sometimes called transactions ) , which function-oriented concepts , when data analysis is supposed to be function-independent . |
| 21 | Many parents become very confused by the range of professionals that they see and will call everyone doctor . |
| 22 | The survey , which covered 225 branch managers and 857 account holding customers , also found that two thirds of the managers believed their customers were confused by the range of products and services on offer . |
| 23 | In Shetland the situation is a bit confused by the migration of birds from other , usually more northerly areas . |
| 24 | As it stands , the Committee consists of the Mayor of Venice who acts as Vice-Chairman ( the present outgoing Chairman is architect Paolo Portoghesi ) , and eighteen other members : three appointed by the local authority , three by the provincial government , five by the Veneto region , three by the Council of Ministers , a further three by the major trade-union confederations and a final member from among the permanent staff of the Biennale . |
| 25 | Labour was horrified by the prospect of cuts . |
| 26 | If the laws of science are unchanged by the combination of operations C and P , and also by the combination C , P , and T , they must also be unchanged under the operation T alone . |
| 27 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 28 | Setting the objectives , then , is at least moderately straightforward , though it can be made more complex by the addition of sub-objectives relating to secondary groups of consumers , and there is always room for argument as to how much it is realistic to expect to achieve . |
| 29 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 30 | News of victory over the French and the Bavarians at Blenheim was announced to Londoners in early August 1704 by the discharging of guns from the Tower , and in the evening there were bonfires and celebrations not just in the City but , according to Evelyn , " everywhere " . |