Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time to give serious consideration to a standing United Nations army , perhaps paid for by the rich and manned by the poor of the world . |
| 2 | How is a question asked by the foolish and answered by the trivial . ’ |
| 3 | In late February the UN boundary commission was preparing a report which would reinstate the 1923 border with Kuwait , delineated by the British and accepted by the Iraqi government in an agreement with Kuwait in 1963 . |
| 4 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 5 | During the training programme Fellows are encouraged to question the experts they meet ‘ to be excited by the excellent and disturbed by the mediocre ’ . |