Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominant instance of a society is therefore that aspect of it which sustains the prevalent economic system by legitimating the way in which it produces and distributes wealth . |
| 2 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 3 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 4 | Peter Gilchrist , a 21-year old Teessider , retained the British Open championship by beating the former world champion Norman Dagley 1,166-1,008 in the four-hour final in Leeds . |
| 5 | Black , from Invergordon , near Inverness , won the Scottish qualifying competition by keeping the ball up 5,211 times during an astonishing 56-minute demonstration of his prowess . |
| 6 | The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto in his book , The Other Path , argues that such change can be brought about in the Latin American context by legalizing the informals . |
| 7 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |
| 8 | Little Lough was created in the early eighteenth century by damming the stream that is the source of the River Wansbeck , and Great Lough was formed in 1850 , immediately upstream . |
| 9 | The Royal Air Force clinched the annual Inter-Services Championship by defeating the Royal Navy by six wickets on Aug 11 . |
| 10 | The olfactory area of the brain also connects with the hypothalamus , a very important structure which controls the entire hormonal system by influencing the ‘ master gland ’ itself — the pituitary . |
| 11 | Reduce the average branching factor by keeping the number of arcs spanning n(1,2) , n(2,3) , and n(3,4) low and thus limit the combinatorial explosion of paths . |
| 12 | Whereas Christianity stresses the sacredness of Christ 's birth through the fact of Mary 's virginity , Buddhism gives emphasis to the idea that the mother has transcended normal human existence by fostering the Buddha in her womb : |
| 13 | It is suggested that the aim of constraining the managers of the large public company by organizing the internal division of power in the company appropriately can be achieved in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | fears I er I 'm coming back from the forces I went into the main job , taking over from the previous scheduled clerk by breaking the schedules and the duties . |
| 15 | We have studied the possible in vivo role of the hypersensitive sites of the human NF-L gene by analysing the expression pattern of a series of deletion constructs in transgenic mice and cultured cells . |
| 16 | If law is to be used as ‘ an instrument for casting an alternative political vote by exposing the decision making process to contending views of public necessity ’ ( Lewis and Harden , 1982 , p. 68 ) , the most obvious way in which such an aim might be pursued is through the development of a test case strategy . |
| 17 | Corporatism is designed to sustain the existing economic system by securing the co-operation of labour in policies for incomes , prices , profits and dividends which can only be against its long-term interests ( Panitch 1979 ; Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 18 | London-born Mike MacFarlane established himself as the top black British athlete by winning the 200 metres European title , though his form thereafter lapsed and , although he made the 1980 Olympic sprint team , he failed to make the finals . |
| 19 | It can be converted to a useful equivalent form by making the replacement where m is the rest mass of the test body . |
| 20 | The Poles must oppose secession in the name of the unity of the working class of all the Russias , but they should not ask the Russians to compromise with Great Russian chauvinism by refusing the Poles the right to secede . |
| 21 | The stronger dollar , which helped to improve sterling returns from oil production , backfired on BP late last year by inflating the value of funds borrowed in the US . |
| 22 | Thus , although Mary 's first House of Commons readily accepted the restoration of Catholic doctrine and liturgy , it initially refused to repeal the Henrician anti-papal legislation , and it delayed the reconciliation with Rome until Pope Julius III had secured the future of secularized ecclesiastical property by guaranteeing the rights of existing lay holders . |
| 23 | Practise an advancing double reverse punch by throwing the first reverse punch with a slight slide forwards on the front foot . |
| 24 | It was also thought to signify US approval for Palmer 's decision in September 1989 to improve his country 's regional defensive capability by re-equipping the navy with West German-designed frigates [ see p. 37152 ] . |
| 25 | A number of Third World states reacted to this assertion of superpower force against a weak non-aligned state by accepting the need for countervailing American military power . |
| 26 | Middlesboro 1 , Watford 2 WATFORD enhanced their impressive away record by becoming the first team to win at Middlesbrough 's Ayresome Park in the League this season , writes Ian Whittell . |
| 27 | Royal Mail spokesman Adam Novak said : ‘ The twin town award scheme is just one way in which we can demonstrate our commitment to the European single market by recognising the extensive contribution twin towns all over the UK have made in furthering the development of international communications . ’ |
| 28 | BRS/Search can handle large volumes of unstructured textual information by recording the position of every word . |
| 29 | BRS/Search can handle large volumes of unstructured textual information by recording the position of every word . |
| 30 | These authors attempted to assess platelet function in citrated whole blood by determining the platelet aggregates formed following electromagnetic agitation for 15 minutes . |