Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 2 | The association between reading skill and the use of the GPC route was confirmed by a negative correlation between the time taken to pronounce a list of words and the size of the pseudo-homophone impairment : the more skilled children gave a greater indication of being slowed down by the appearance of nonwords which sounded like words . |
| 3 | The thing was , they were playing blues in both major and minor keys , and I was feeling very tied down by the number of notes I could reach in my major open tunings . |
| 4 | Paula , 35 , did n't allow herself to be hemmed in by the dearth of mini-skirts on offer at the show in the Victoria and Albert museum . |
| 5 | The success of the scheme was rapid and spectacular , borne along by the enthusiasm of organisers and experimental staff alike and by the conviction that here was a programme far more relevant and exciting than anything Kenya had had previously ( which it was ) . |
| 6 | They should n't leave all this stuff unguarded — and what 's that envelope over by the pile of coins ? |
| 7 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 8 | The list of results obtained by candidates in each examination , and the decisions about the academic progress of candidates , shall be drawn up by the board of examiners . |
| 9 | This action is commonly attributed to the fear of the working class stirred up by the course of events in France . |
| 10 | In these early years , equations similar to the Lorenz system ( Chapter 6 ) { 35 } were written down , both for lasers and masers , but failure to find a practical system in either spectral region which was adequately described by these equations , plus of course the abundance of other avenues opened up by the development of lasers , led to a rather quiescent phase lasting till the resurgence of interest in the late 197Os . |
| 11 | The reaction is speeded up by the presence of enzymes , hence the name enzymic browning . |
| 12 | Potentially insipid womblings are fired up by the kind of melodies that demand attention first and slip into something more comfortable later on . |
| 13 | WavePhore said it is also joining the National Data Broadcast Committee , set up by the Association of Broadcasters to encourage entry into the high speed information market . |
| 14 | The shortfall can only be made up by the sale of programmes and income from official car parks — so spectators are asked to support both . |
| 15 | ‘ The audit function should be carried out by the Court of Auditors in a similar way to that adopted by the principal auditor of a multinational group of companies which has a number of foreign subsidiary companies . |
| 16 | This was also borne out by the inclusion of catalogues at the end of the book , looking very much like contributions from various nurseries and it is evident that those recommending the work did so with an eye to business . |
| 17 | However that may be , the prediction that non-ascriptive adjectives will be ungrammatical here is borne out by the evidence of associatives and others ( this is the more revealing , since it might sometimes be possible to understand the meaning which would be intended by the construction where they could be supposed to occur ) : ( 62 ) Fanshawe reported O'Neill 's collar clerical Jones could not imagine his wife former |
| 18 | This spread of interest is very much borne out by the selection of numbers given to each of the tenors where Tauber has more semi-serious and operatic numbers to sing than his tow seniors . |
| 19 | The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals . |
| 20 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 21 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 22 | Baldwin 's National government had gone to the electorate in November 1935 against the backcloth of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia , which raised public concern , and a Peace Ballot carried out by the League of Nations Union which indicated that the British public wanted peace and disarmament but was prepared to contemplate military sanctions against aggressor nations . |
| 23 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 24 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 25 | They are worn out by the desire of politicians to fight among themselves , manipulating the archaic rules of Westminster and creating red herrings as part of the game that aims to divorce the people from having a say . |
| 26 | But Bob explains that he has special personal reasons for wanting to help to express the gratitude that he felt when he was in dire trouble himself , thousands of miles from home , and was baled out by the kindness of strangers . |
| 27 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 28 | The first step in crystallite formation is the creation of a stable nucleus brought about by the ordering of chains in a parallel array , stimulated by intramolecular forces , followed by the stabilization of long range order by the secondary valence forces which aid the packing of molecules into a three-dimensional ordered structure . |
| 29 | The 1989 NHS Reforms were greeted with great hostility by much of the medical profession , partly because they were seen as part of possible moves towards dismantling the NHS , but also because of the changed emphasis brought about by the consideration of terms such as : ‘ efficiency ’ , ‘ internal market ’ , and ‘ payment by results ’ in areas where the role of the market had previously been much less prominent . |
| 30 | The great demand for executive talent brought about by the wealth of opportunities created under the post-war Pax Americana soon exhausted the supply . |