Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The balustrades were carved oak panels decorated with scrolls of acanthus foliage , each newel surmounted by a heavy oak pineapple . |
| 2 | Among the welter of aids to discerning travellers , he found exactly what he was looking for : a comprehensive guide to British hotels and restaurants , each entry accompanied by a brief description of the establishment and a small photograph . |
| 3 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |
| 4 | What they have in mind here is the common situation that , while hunting , the quarry is first wounded by one hunter 's spear but ultimately brought down by another spear thrown by a second huntsman . |
| 5 | Table 5.4 also suggests another reason not to panic : that over the longer run the rise in the elderly population in the next century and the rise in the numbers of very elderly in this century is to some degree offset by a projected fall in the number of very young non-workers , i.e. , that the relationship between total so-called ‘ dependency ’ and the size of the population of working age may not change significantly . |
| 6 | To see this platform threatened by a mere Smiths ' power game , hardly proved good PR for the band and a degree of bad feeling began to boil away in their home city . |
| 7 | These encounters are for this reason accompanied by a great deal of laughing , smiling and verbal exchanges . |
| 8 | It backs on to another property owned by a professional photographer-friend , Hazel . |
| 9 | The wartime commentator 's jingoistic jangle was this time replaced by a solemn voice , and we were confronted with pictures of moving skeletons , some of them smiling weakly and making slow gestures . |
| 10 | Shortly after the break , McCoist was again frustrated , this time denied by a fine save from Gouteev . |
| 11 | The proclamation came amid a renewal of disturbances akin to those which had surrounded the holding of the referendum , this time provoked by a Croatian government order to disarm reserve police officers in Serb-populated municipalities . |
| 12 | A further decree in 1982 , this time initiated by a civilian government , reinforced state control of the banking and finance sectors and went a little way to encourage Nigerian capital to invest more in the manufacturing sector . |
| 13 | There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power . |
| 14 | But as you can see quite clearly from the table , other things were not equal : there was a massive release of liquidity to the private sector from the repayment of public debt ( item 2 ) and an even more massive increase in bank lending ( item 3 ) , although this was to some extent offset by a large increase in the currency flow deficit ( an outflow of funds under item 4 ) . |
| 15 | He also says that he fears that he and his family , as members of the Bengali community , would be in danger of racial harassment if they lived in Carradale House , and this he supports with an affidavit on the subject of such harassment sworn by a former employee of his solicitors . |
| 16 | This was the first such agreement signed by a Central American country with the USA . |
| 17 | Edouard toyed with the idea of having the de Chavigny wine-labels redesigned , and each vintage ornamented by a leading artist , as Rothschild had done . |
| 18 | The case which is the subject of this note provides a useful insight into the analysis of an unfair dismissal claim which arises out of an employee 's refusal to accept new terms and either resignation followed by a constructive dismissal claim or dismissal consequent upon that refusal . |
| 19 | " Universal " pansies should be available in pots now and will flower in mild spells all winter followed by a big burst in spring . |
| 20 | Thus the Treasury had to give permission for all borrowing undertaken by a local authority , not merely in total but for each project for which money was borrowed . |
| 21 | Care proceedings can only follow , however , at the instigation of the local authority or the NSPCC. ( b ) The child protection register Each area covered by a social services authority must have a child protection register to be maintained by the social services department . |
| 22 | As soon as I disappeared up the path , Poosie Nansie-wards , he promised himself one more cast followed by a quick canter to the bar . |
| 23 | But lace was nothing new ; in the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , is a late seventeenth-century English mirror with a delicate border of engraved blue glass in ten sections , each abutment masked by a thin strip of gilt lead coffin lace . |
| 24 | This arises in part from the fact that it is a polar solvent ; that is , the covalently bonded H 2 O molecule has a positive charge at each end balanced by a negative charge in the middle . |
| 25 | A Pylian warship of the twelfth century BC is shown on a vase painting to have high ‘ castles ’ at each end connected by a raised gangway along the centre . |
| 26 | The fund will be available on a claims-made basis to cover any loss suffered by a former shareholder who held shares during the period April 16 to December 1 1990 , and sold that stock at a loss as defined in the settlement agreement . |
| 27 | Tradition says that , worst of all , he was informed that he would not be allowed to partake of Communion at any service conducted by a Covenanting Minister , a sentence equivalent to excommunication from the Kirk he believed in , |
| 28 | The Shogun is in any event protected by a three year unlimited mileage warranty . |
| 29 | Within a generation Sigmar was openly worshipped as a god , with his own priesthood headed by a Grand Theogonist . |
| 30 | The sequence of production of the dies suggest that three ‘ generations ’ of dies are represented , each generation represented by a few new designs and the abandonment of some of the original ones |