Example sentences of "by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIDS ( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ) is a condition caused by a virus called HIV ( Human Immuno Deficiency Virus ) . |
| 2 | Returning from a visit to Uganda , where he met with patients in the villages and with other agencies , Maurice Adams said , ‘ It is a beautiful country which is being devastated by a disease which can be stopped . ’ |
| 3 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help — when it was finally arranged — was not enough . |
| 4 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 5 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help when it was finally arranged was not enough . |
| 6 | ACET provides a dedicated Home Care service using a team of doctors and nurses backed by a trained and active network of over 400 volunteers . |
| 7 | Gift Aid may not be used by a donor as a means of writing of a debt or loan owed to him by the charity . |
| 8 | Our Home Care teams are made up of doctors and nurses backed by a network of trained and active volunteers . |
| 9 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 10 | For example , Goodluck Mhango , a veterinary surgeon arrested in September 1987 , has been rejected for release by a committee established to review the cases of political detainees . |
| 11 | The authorities claimed they were conspiring to overthrow the government , which is dominated by a different community , the Moors , but offered no evidence to substantiate this claim . |
| 12 | A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 . |
| 13 | In 1990 a police officer accused of distributing copies of a patriotic song to high-school students was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 14 | The Commission also took a stronger stand in respect of two other countries on its agenda : Cuba will not come under special scrutiny by a representative of the UN Secretary-General and the Expert on Equatorial Guinea , a country which receives assistance under the UN Advisory Services Program , has been requested to study the human rights situation there . |
| 15 | This award was presented to Amnesty International following the decision of an independent panel of judges drawn from members of the public nationwide and chaired by a representative from the greetings card industry . |
| 16 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 17 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
| 18 | The article , entitled ‘ When will military courts , serving as special courts , be abolished ? ’ and written by a Tunisian lawyer , was published in 27 October 1990 in Al-Fajr ( Dawn ) , the official newspaper of the non-recognized Islamic group Hizb al-Nahda ( Renaissance ) . |
| 19 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 20 | Groups were still being run by a very small section office . |
| 21 | There is a massive amount of writing about art , only some of which can immediately be identified by a reader as criticism . |
| 22 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 23 | Her argument was that the subjects of the old master paintings could be disregarded by a painter who wished to find lessons for the present in the artistic practice of the past . |
| 24 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 25 | Surrealist painting had publicity value , especially when executed by a showman like Salvador Dali , who married the former wife of the poet Paul Éluard . |
| 26 | A thumbnail sketch by a friend brings Fénéon to life : ‘ He did not thrust himself upon you . |
| 27 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 28 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 29 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 30 | there is every reason to welcome such studies , though a reader hoping for judgements about quality may be disappointed by a theoretical writer 's greater stress on interpretation . |