Example sentences of "by an [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow-down in domestic demand was partly offset by an increase in exports to Germany and an ABECOR report in February 1991 described Belgium 's " recent economic performance " as " a remarkable achievement " . |
| 2 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 3 | Notions of cultural deficits frequently have been replaced by an emphasis upon differences with apparently no pejorative connotations . |
| 4 | Although Rover had reported an operating profit of £27 million for 1987 , after years of heavy losses , covered by government handouts , the chances of privatising the company by an issue of shares to the public still seemed remote . |
| 5 | This hare has been aroused by an exchange of letters between Donald Riegle , chairman of the Senate banking committee , and the SEC 's ambitious chairman , Richard Breeden . |
| 6 | Appendices A and B will be kept up-to-date regularly by an exchange of letters between the Secretariat of ABI with various other parties to the Agreement . |
| 7 | Angiogenesis-inhibitors may one day also help treat diseases such as rheumatism , psoriasis and diseases of the eye , which are characterised by an invasion of tissues by blood vessels |
| 8 | It is not open to the promisor to go back and undo the loss ; he is able only to make it good , and this can be done only by an award of damages in the amount of the promisee 's interest . |
| 9 | People who are basically unhealthy may have their pheromones soured by an imbalance of bacteria on the skin , and generally not smell as attractive as a person in the peak of fitness . |
| 10 | The 1980s have been marked by an avalanche of documents from both local and central government . |
| 11 | ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset . |
| 12 | A high grade official might also keep at hand a jade sceptre ( ju-i ) with flattened head and curved handle of a kind used at court and commonly presented by an emperor to persons of distinction , and in addition a hat-stand with carved domed head mounted on a wooden stem and base set with jade . |
| 13 | Chronology is one of the cornerstones of geomorphology , and researchers are urged to balance their studies of present geomorphic processes by an appreciation of rates of work over timescales of 10 4 — 10 6 years . |
| 14 | Richard Crossman , for one , in 1965 lamented , ‘ How much more humane and imaginative our post-war reconstruction would have proved if government departments had been invigorated by an influx of experts with special knowledge , new ideas and a sympathy for the Government 's domestic and foreign policies ’ .3– George Brown 's National Plan of 1965 represented a belated attempt to recapture the ground perceived to have been lost since the war ended . |
| 15 | To remedy this , a major restoration project is now under way , financed by an allocation of funds from the National Lottery . |
| 16 | But this must be balanced by an overview about trends in customer behaviour , economic conditions ( etc ) that are likely to affect loner term market conditions . |
| 17 | The Institute was founded in 1982 by an association of members including Oxford University , the EC , the Organization of Arab Oil Exporting Countries ( OAPEC ) and government departments or public institutions of the UK , France , Sweden Norway , Mexico , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia , Canada and Japan . |
| 18 | An analysis of contradictory practices can therefore be supplemented by an account of contradictions between smaller units . |
| 19 | The Universiade GB board also announced that the immediate cash-flow problems , revealed a week ago , had now been resolved by an injection of funds by Sheffield City Council and that further offers of financial support are to be followed up immediately . |