Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] by the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That committee , which had its first meeting last month , will examine progress on local programmes and will co-ordinate action in response to joint plans developed by the two cross-border communities . |
| 2 | Accounting as a means of collecting and reporting on patterns of expenditure has played a not insignificant role in shaping the policies pursued by the various public sector organizations . |
| 3 | Thirdly , it specifically ruled out more funding and subsidies and a return to the policies pursued by the last Labour Government , with the support of the Liberal party . |
| 4 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |
| 5 | The role of women in local government was another aspect of equal opportunities highlighted by the New Urban Left . |
| 6 | Previous elections , when the electorate voted for a list of candidates nominated by the ruling communist Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , had taken place in 1986 [ see p. 34678 ] . |
| 7 | Yet the full cost of providing just piped water , electricity and sewerage , let alone the range of other amenities expected by the modern rural population can be staggering . |
| 8 | The deserted caster sugar white beach lined with palm trees and conch shells surrounded by the clear vivid blue and emerald sea was perfect for snorkelling . |
| 9 | Reformist ideas received further official sanction at an enlarged meeting of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) politburo on Feb. 12 when general secretary Jiang Zemin , read out " important " speeches made by the now-retired paramount leader , Deng Xiaoping , during his recent tour of southern China [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 10 | Referring to Deakins ' recent links with a buying group with members in France , Mr Hunt commented : ‘ This is a marvellous example of Welsh enterprise at work , taking full advantage of the opportunities presented by the single European market . ’ |
| 11 | The aim of the competition is to encourage artists to explore the many creative opportunities offered by the new Tinted Bockingford range . |
| 12 | Its objectives are those of the single subject degree in Modern and Contemporary History but additionally , with the demands of 1992 and the opportunities offered by the Single European Market firmly in mind , this course is designed to foster language skills and to allow students to experience History teaching from a different perspective . |
| 13 | On April 30 the Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers held talks in Seoul at which it was agreed to relax restrictions currently applied to the 680,000 Koreans resident in Japan , many of whom were descendants of the 2,500,000 Koreans transported by the Japanese colonial administration for use as forced labour . |
| 14 | Eventually , these evolved into guidelines produced by the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum a decade later . |
| 15 | Using the methods offered by the new technical media , he must become a self-aware participant in the total apparatus of production . |
| 16 | Overwhelmingly it is a region of spectacular skyscapes complimented by the distinctive pastel tones of agricultural patchwork , mellow Lincolnshire brickwork and the occasional touch of Ancaster stonework , such as in the region 's most majestic landmark — the spire of St James church , Louth . |
| 17 | Only 1% of the world 's HEU comes under the safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency ; that is mostly used to power small research reactors in countries that have no nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | Anomalies indicated by the large standard deviations in Table 5 for the larger time delays could be attributed to some of the subjects attempting to rehearse the letters using some mnemonic technique while performing the distractive task . |
| 19 | In Leningrad , candidates supported by the main reformist umbrella organisation , Democratic Elections 90 , won 28 of the city 's 34 seats in the Russian parliament . |
| 20 | A 0.6-kb subclone , which contains all the homology with human SRY , hybridizes to the same male-specific marsupial fragments identified by the human SRY probe ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 21 | Less than forty pictures exist by the fifteenth-century Sicilian artist , who was credited by Vasari with bringing the ‘ Flemish ’ technique of oil painting to Italy , and whose placid works were of decisive influence on contemporary Venetian painters , especially Giovanni Bellini . |
| 22 | Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 23 | Of the six colleges only two are accredited for both primary and secondary training at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level ; primary provision predominates and , because of cuts imposed by the former DES in the past , even their joint secondary provision does not meet the full range of subjects required by the standard secondary school . |
| 24 | They do not dispute that high level administrators are largely engaged in co-ordination or in the ( apparently ) factual and scientific legitimation of the laws and policies made by the liberal democratic state . |
| 25 | The cultural forms adopted by the rising middle classes ( or , more specifically , Lash and Urry 's ‘ service class ’ ) can not be the ‘ real thing . ’ |
| 26 | There was initial optimism that there had been a breakthrough in relations between Syria and Israel , but by Aug. 27 , Palestinian negotiators were expressing disappointment at the detailed autonomy proposals presented by the new Labour government . |
| 27 | Three weeks after taking office the new centre-right government introduced its 1990 budget , a revised version of the proposals presented by the outgoing Labour government . |
| 28 | This measure strengthened still further the expenditure controls over local authorities imposed by the 1980 Local Government , Planning and Land Act . |
| 29 | A dispute over the conflicting constitutional rights of press freedom ( enshrined within the First Amendment ) and the right of a defendant to a fair trial ( the Sixth Amendment ) arose from an attempt by Cable News Network ( CNN ) to broadcast tapes which it had obtained of telephone calls made by the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega , who had been imprisoned in the USA since January 1990 awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges . |
| 30 | Thus the chewing mouthparts possessed by the early cockroach-like insects have been turned by their descendants into siphons and stilettos , saws , chisels , and probes that when unreeled are as long as the whole body . |