Example sentences of "[adj] by this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another mother only feels like a brute for hours afterwards ; and another child is made furiously resentful by this indignity . |
| 2 | There are some who think that there is no fun to be found in local government finance , but they can be proved wrong by this debate . |
| 3 | It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' . |
| 4 | The fibre of beans and lentils are easily turned into some foul-smelling windy by this process . |
| 5 | I am slightly embarrassed by this story but I fear it should be told . |
| 6 | He is a bit embarrassed by this category because , despite its ‘ archaic ’ elements , he finds himself unable to deny its authentic power . |
| 7 | The rate of eustatic change producible by this process has been estimated to be about three orders of magnitude slower than that produced by the climatically induced fluctuations of the Pleistocene ( Pitman , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | The small Year Niner , who did not even realise that there were taps in room 19 , never mind streams , is a little interested by this offer but explains that her Mum never lets her drink the water at school and always provides her with a carton of fruit juice which keeps her going through the day . |
| 9 | The Licensing Authority is unconvinced by this finding which is , in effect , that the triazolam doses in comparative trials were not equivalent to those of flurazepam . |
| 10 | ‘ I was cold and wet by this time , but after a tour of inspection I found the house was deserted . |
| 11 | The endowment of religious houses and other institutions , though greatly reduced until the end of the century , was thereafter far from contained by this statute and can not be measured simply by the licences enrolled in chancery , since various devices were employed to circumvent the law . |
| 12 | Abashed by this sarcasm , the crowd hung back while the dazed Chignell fetched the bath chair which had caused all the trouble , and lifted his master into it . |
| 13 | Wexford , who had been lyrical , felt positively pained by this evidence of man 's indifference to nature 's glories . |
| 14 | The Duke and Duchess were old by this time and salvation uppermost on the Duke 's mind , it would seem . |
| 15 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 16 | Syd Robinson , a vice-chairman of the Eastern District , was so incensed by this move that he resigned as one of the District 's three representatives on the Extra-Mural Board forthwith . |
| 17 | Now change the following by this method : unc |
| 18 | Second , the same act makes provision for ‘ environmentally sensitive areas ’ ( ESAs ) where annual grants are payable by this ministry to farmers to enable them to follow farming practices which will achieve conservation objectives . |
| 19 | The chairmen of the nationalized industries were greatly alarmed by this proposal . |
| 20 | Do not be alarmed by this trend but always warn the parents that it is a possibility . |
| 21 | Yet if it is not alarmed by this procedure , you may well be able to relieve the obstruction and so prevent the dog from choking at a time when rapid action is required . |
| 22 | She studied the Workshops , frowning , and Caspar , who was becoming alarmed by this time , saw that this was no ruse to secure his assistance ; Fenella intended to get into the Robemaker 's Workshops and rescue whoever it was who was in there . |
| 23 | It was impossible by this method to take into account the question of whether one situation was more dangerous than another . |
| 24 | Luckily , I did not become jaundiced by this diet . |
| 25 | If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good . |
| 26 | But I think that secretly the vice-chancellor and the other grown-ups were delighted by this kind of behaviour , as it proved beyond any reasonable doubt that we were students and they were teachers . |
| 27 | Ladd 's Shane , like villain Jack Palance , seems to have ridden out of a simpler , morally clear-cut Western , and is bewildered by this now-complex and difficult situation . |
| 28 | Many of our course members are confused by this absence of one particular method of teaching ; the rules and boundaries are not clear to tutors and learners alike . |
| 29 | But one may reasonably dispute that the French fabliaux are pornographic by this definition either . |
| 30 | As human beings we are suitably horrified by this state of affairs ; but as penologists we wonder cynically how great a contribution this factor really makes to the penal crisis . |