Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun sg] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus requests for further particulars of allegations against an individual may be denied where the information received by the Secretary of State is of a highly confidential nature and relates to national security . |
| 2 | That authority will have the power only to prohibit the launch of the offer or to require the offeror to publish a corrected offer where the information furnished by the offeror is insufficient . |
| 3 | But compared with the world of De Carlo 's first novel , where the information garnered by the eye leads to no critical interrogation of reality , Palomar 's , and Calvino 's , project seems almost hopeful . |
| 4 | We can look to the USA where the role played by the National Commission for Preservation and Access has given this type of work a high profile , including recent projects on images . |
| 5 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |
| 6 | Greater difficulties arise where the defendant comes by the information without notice of any restrictions on its disclosure . |
| 7 | When this happens in reciprocal discourse , in face to face conversation , where the discourse develops by the exchange of speaker role , then the situation can be remedied ( given the impulse to co-operate and to accommodate the reality of the interlocutor 's world ) by an overtly interactive negotiation whereby intention and interpretation are brought into an approximate convergence as required by the purpose of the interaction . |
| 8 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 9 | In their planning they retain the large central school-room , but the provision of classrooms is greater than the norm established by the church schools . |
| 10 | Perhaps nothing better illustrates the difficulties of trying to establish the truth of such a tradition and of achieving accuracy in the dating of events in the lives of scholars of the early Ottoman period than the problem presented by the death date of Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 11 | In short , a transaction at an undervalue means a gift or a transaction for a consideration which is significantly less in value than the consideration provided by the company : subsection ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | Shortly stated , the section applies to transactions ‘ with another person ’ entered into by way of a gift , or in consideration of marriage or for a consideration significantly less in value than the consideration provided by the debtor : subsection ( 1 ) . |
| 13 | It should be noted that for s238 to apply , the value of consideration received must be significantly less than the consideration provided by the vendor . |
| 14 | The Solihull scheme allowed for 91 per cent of the education budget to be delegated , more than the amount required by the Education Reform Act . |
| 15 | Donors pledged US$170,000,000 in drought aid , US$100,000,000 less than the amount requested by the Banda regime . |
| 16 | Questionnaires are sometimes used without an interviewer , the respondent completing the questionnaire without any assistance other than the guidance provided by the written instructions on the questionnaire itself . |
| 17 | It was certainly much wider than the definition required by the local authority for an official notification of a violent incident or by the police for pressing charges of actual bodily harm . |
| 18 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 19 | There was also an awful type of unbranded ‘ floss ’ yarn that was even more unpopular than the nylon sold by the well known names in the hand knitting world . |
| 20 | But it is certainly possible , at least , that he survived the Cross — if , indeed , it was he who was on it in the first place , rather than the substitute claimed by the Koran and by many early heresies . |
| 21 | By contrast , even those who have spent all of their working lives with Leyland in the UK are being given no more than the minimum provided by the state . |
| 22 | The report argues that such environmental subsidies would cost less than the sum earmarked by the Ministry of Agriculture for this year 's CAP , the administration of the proposed scheme being facilitated by the CPRE 's knowledge of the state of Britain 's farmland . |
| 23 | Indeed the poverty of the DES analysis in The School Curriculum led the Committee of the House of Commons ( Education , Science and Arts Committee , 1981 ) to advise headteachers to rely upon common sense rather than the analysis presented by the DES ! |
| 24 | He pointed out that Village school 's roll of nearly 20 pupils was considerably larger than the number given by the Council 's policy document as the minimum desirable size , and moved that the school remain open . |
| 25 | Under the STV as well as in an exhaustive ballot a candidate doomed to exclusion may have received a number of votes that is substantial and only marginally smaller than the number received by the candidate next above him in the relevant count . |
| 26 | This is clearly a mistake for 1.21 a.m. which is itself earlier than the time stated by the inspector . |
| 27 | On Oct. 17 , following the agreement with the IMF , a major meeting of international aid donors to Sri Lanka in Paris , under the auspices of the World Bank , pledged $785,000,000 in aid for 1990--$5,000,000 more than the figure requested by the Bank . |
| 28 | On the facts , the benefit of the second contract price being depressed was greater than the loss caused by the breach of the first contract . |
| 29 | The most diligent student of the region 's past will find it extremely difficult to fix upon any period in earlier times in which the condition of the people can be seen as more attractive than the point reached by the early 1960s . |
| 30 | And thirdly they argue that a model formulated by Japanese scientists to estimate the numbers of sperm whales , which is based on age of whale at sexual maturity , offers better evidence about whale stocks than the model developed by the International Institute for Economic Development , which uses length of whale ; yet the Japanese model does not fit the data as well as the IIED model . |