Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 2 | Far-reaching proposals published by the NRA call on the government to set legally-binding quality standards for not only rivers , estuaries and canals but lakes , groundwaters and coastal stretches . |
| 3 | A body of representative groups headed by the Soil Association believes that it is possible to turn 20 per cent of Britain 's farming organic by the year 2000 . |
| 4 | Volume was measured separately for each outstanding futures contract by the number of contracts traded during the day . |
| 5 | In the late 1970s , two budgets that were potentially important in urban economic development were the regional programmes implemented by the Department of Industry , and the policies effected by the National Enterprise Board . |
| 6 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 7 | Furthermore , if resources permit , it might be possible to also examine one of the telecommunications-related projects organised by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry which will contribute to the development of the broader digital network system . |
| 8 | What we do find , as with the few collective farms in Roslavl' , is an obsession with possible growth-points admired by the Bolsheviks . |
| 9 | Islamic groups led by the League of the Sons of Yemen and the Yemen Reform Group [ see p. 38075 ] had urged a boycott of the referendum , and staged a rally in San'aa , the capital , on May 12 in which an estimated 25,000-30,000 people participated . |
| 10 | Influenced by J.M. Keynes , one of its fourteen authors , it argued for expansionist economic policies financed by the state through a Board of National Investment and a vast public works programme . |
| 11 | Schaffhausen is dominated by the sixteenth-century Munol fortress , perched on top of a hillock and towering over half-timbered houses sleeping by the water . |
| 12 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |
| 13 | The current value of outstanding contracts placed by the Ministry of Defence with the companies listed is as follows : British Aerospace , £1,625 million ; Royal Ordnance , £315 million ; VSEL , £1,070 million ; Ferranti , £360 million ; and Leyland Daf , £105 million . |
| 14 | As one of its responses to the International Statistical Year , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development had commissioned a comparative study of national R and D efforts , based on an officially agreed definition of research and development activity ; the so-called ‘ Frascati definition ’ , named after one of a number of pleasant resorts favoured by the OECD for conferences . |
| 15 | The French and the Italians had ICL — the Britain-based computer maker recently bought by Fujitsu — thrown out of a number of collaborative projects financed by the Community . |
| 16 | He maintains that foreign exchange intervention and management of the Exchange Equalisation Account could be carried out by private institutions , as could the banking role , and monetary policies designed by the Treasury could be implemented by a major commercial bank for a fee . |
| 17 | We need a successor operator of some sort that matches the current state against the possible states described by the rules in order to decide which of these should be extended . |
| 18 | WASHINGTON , D.C. In an effort to ease the economic woes precipitated by the dissolution of the Soviet Union , many of America 's premier museums recently sent food and supplies to their Russian counterparts . |
| 19 | Observing in the classroom , we have been very encouraged to see that many programs that were originally designed and written to be used with a whole class ( maybe as many as 30 pupils participating ) are very effective with groups of pupils working on their own , either with the same approach taken with the whole class or with a subset of the possible activities offered by the program being tackled ( eg , PIRATES , JANEPLUS and TRANSPOTS ) . |
| 20 | The result has been that in many GIS spatial queries initiated by the user must be formulated in terms of a software-specific command language . |
| 21 | Since the Library 's automated system ( VTLS ) is based on US MARC format , it was decided in November 1989 that it would be sensible for the Library to adopt the descriptive rules prepared by the Library of Congress : the Bibliographic Description of Rare Books ( BDRB ) published in 1981 . |
| 22 | In addition , this article addresses the problematic notion of character " development " and argues that this may be accounted for in terms of a change in the conversational strategies used by a character , from which changes in attitude are inferable . |
| 23 | However , each school is unique , and the sample illustrates the diverse and idiosyncratic shapes taken by the project in different institutions . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) The contract can exclude liability for certain types of loss : " the seller shall not be liable for any consequential losses suffered by the buyer " ( but on the effectiveness of this formula see Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyds Rep 55 ) . |
| 25 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 26 | It was also covered with watery blisters caused by the burrowing of the itch mites . |
| 27 | He did not elaborate on the usual roles played by a king 's sons , who in fact were expected from an early age to join in their father 's business , as envoys and generals , counsellors as long as they remained in their father 's household , and rulers of sub-kingdoms as and when regna were available . |
| 28 | Large spacious offices dominated by a Chesterfield reputedly used by the Rolling Stones singer and Marianne Faithful for amorous interludes attracted the traditional crowd of hangers-on , plus the few who came into work . |
| 29 | The state 's function is to co-ordinate and manage the economic crises generated by the mode of production through political and ideological interventions . |
| 30 | Participants thus acquire knowledge of specific subjects supported by the mix of general business subjects required to equip diplomates with the necessary competencies in supervisory and first-line management in the local and catering industry . |