Example sentences of "by the [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there they would flow outwards to the masses through all state agencies , which by the 1930s included even the family . |
| 2 | Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution … for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and of the kingdom : how to revive their sense of citizenship , with its privileges which they have lost , and its responsibilities which they have forgotten . |
| 3 | The first annual report of the Oxford House mission in 1884 set this programme out most clearly : " Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution to the East End question , for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and the Kingdom " . |
| 4 | SATURDAY , AM Neighbourhood clean-up patrols gather by the thousands to sweep up the mess . |
| 5 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |