Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Seebohm Report emphasised family work with elderly people , but the social workers skilled to do this seldom receive the opportunity ; many seem willing to accept the inevitability of case loads taken up by high priority child protection . |
| 2 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 3 | The carriage returns set up by this method are termed ‘ soft ’ , as against ‘ hard ’ carriage returns resulting from the return key being pressed . |
| 4 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 5 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 6 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 7 | The introduction and enforcement of strict drink-driving laws and speed limits backed up by forceful television advertisements produced a large reduction in deaths from road traffic accidents , the death rate in relation to the number of vehicles in 1991 being among the lowest in the world . |
| 8 | Furthermore , costs in handling cargoes , the transfer complications brought about by different lock widths and the supplementary road haulage costs , however short the distances , mean that the simple ton-mile difference between quoted road and canal rates represents a gross rather than a net saving . |
| 9 | If the stepping stones laid down by previous legislation and publications are to be extended , it is important to review initiatives which are attempting to implement a policy for integration . |
| 10 | As with all restoration projects carried out by any society , cash is the key issue and a share issue has been launched to finance the restoration of both vehicles with £1 shared available in blocks of 10 to adults and singly to children . |
| 11 | This is usually due to fuel shortages brought about by excessive exports of Romania 's home-produced oil . |
| 12 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 13 | As this latter example suggests , there is also a wide and varied range of trading activities carried out by local authorities ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 14 | These documents would form the basis of development plans worked out by each individual school . |
| 15 | In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution . |
| 16 | Lada prices went up by three per cent on 1 October making their cheapest car , the Riva 1300SEL saloon , £3275 . |
| 17 | Visa restrictions brought in by foreign governments in co-operation with the Chinese authorities in March and April of 1988 did little to reduce the queues of hopefuls in the embassy districts of Beijing and Shanghai . |
| 18 | The value of exports of manufactured goods rose by 16.5 per cent ( and the volume by 10 per cent ) , with capital goods exports up by 20 per cent to a total of dollars 850,000 million . |
| 19 | The data indicate that dimorphism in adult size may be associated with mortality bias differences brought about by dissimilar adult life styles . |
| 20 | Between 1968 and 1973 , by contrast , final goods prices rose by 4½ per cent per year while materials prices shot up by 11 ½ per cent per year . |
| 21 | The G M B supports a fresh approach to industrial relations ' law with a completely new legislative code which brings international standards fully into the U K. President , we are totally opposed to the repressive trade union laws brought in by Tory governments over the last fourteen years . |
| 22 | The transformation in earlier health patterns brought about by social and medical change is obvious , and can be expected to continue . |
| 23 | Some Sri Lankans were able to take advantage of employment opportunities brought about by increased government expenditure , but the high inflation rate of the war years cut the standard of living of many Sri Lankans . |
| 24 | Of course , some of these difficulties may be surmounted if the structure of Whitehall is itself radically altered , with departmental policy-making effectively separated from executive functions carried out by semi-autonomous agencies as proposed in the 1988 Ibbs Next Steps Report ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 25 | Nationwide , unemployment figures went up by 41,000 , making the total 2,908,900 million . |
| 26 | Seasonal food prices went up by 2.1 per cent in February , and average prices of clothing and footwear rose by 1.8 per cent , after falling 4.6 per cent in January . |
| 27 | 7.5 shows how the intensity should vary with frequency for gamma rays given off by primordial black holes , if there were on average 300 per cubic light-year . |
| 28 | The original study , which covered 114 households in depth , examined the nature of the local labour market , the sexual division of labour within households , the financial contribution made by women , the authority structure within families and the changes in family and kinship patterns brought about by increasing involvement in the urban wage economy . |
| 29 | We expect that a considerable number of these were teenagers with occasional/part. time jobs or school leavers picked up by special employment measures . |
| 30 | Wondering what we had let ourselves in for we anchored as near as possible to Ullapool and contacted the local staff which at that time consisted of local patrol officers backed up by two visiting officers from Dingwall . |