Example sentences of "backed [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Their authority is based on the law passed in 1939 that governs Italy 's entire artistic heritage ( legge di tutela No.1089 ) and backed up by the specialist department for underwater archaeology , set up in 1988 within the central office of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali , with the cooperation of the Ministero della Marina Mercantile ( whose regulations are enforced by the harbour offices of Italy 's ports ) .
2 The two-fold test was not backed up by the authorities .
3 His allegations against Mr Reid were later backed up by the villa 's then deputy charge nurse , Karen Spinner .
4 Organisations did n't work until backed up by the govt .
5 The system is backed up by the Employers ' Liability ( Compulsory Insurance ) Act 1969 which makes it compulsory for employers to have insurance for personal injury to their employees .
6 The charges were backed up by the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , who said the film ‘ had no feeling of reality ’ .
7 Firstly , counter-revolutionary forces on the continent , armed and trained ( particularly since the Cuban revolution ) by the pentagon , remain impressively strong , and in Central America are backed up by the threat of military action by the United States itself , as recent events in Nicaragua and El Salvador have reaffirmed .
8 Skilled craft workers frequently establish their own methods and pace of work , and this control by the occupational group is usually backed up by the craft union .
9 This defeat of the most successful application of Communist party popular front tactics appeared to demonstrate that opposition forces within Latin America ( backed up by the United States ) were too powerful for such a strategy to be ultimately successful .
10 This is backed up by the accounts we have of many aspects of the economic structure of the music business then : the drive for profit , the trend towards monopoly and conglomeration , the conservative appeal to the predictable and universally understood ( see for example , Peterson and Berger 1975 : 160–4 ; Laing 1969 : 43–5 ; Sanjek 1988 ) .
11 To an extent , this is backed up by the work of Renberg et al . ,
12 Otherwise they have installed non-slip surfaces throughout and they have an exemplary record backed up by the Government .
13 This belief is firmly backed up by the experience of the West German government when in 1965 it attempted to bring criminal charges against nine Chemie Grunenthal executives who were indicted for causing bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug thalidomide .
14 Interestingly , this position is backed up by the experience of the Mondragon cooperative enterprises in the Basque region of Spain .
15 Chichester , Burpham ( covering the Arun valley but replaced by Arundel after the Conquest ) , Lewes and Hastings were backed up by the ports at Bosham and Pevensey and the episcopal centre at Selsey .
16 This view is backed up by the fact that Novell and Banyan ( for whom 100Base-VG support is just a matter of writing new drivers ) are on board .
17 And Bailey 's comments are backed up by the trainer Derek Meredith who says American jockeys are better , they ride closer to the horse they 're neater and they are stronger too .
18 In addition to regulating the chief feasts and rituals of the year , the Church canons prohibited Sunday work , in accordance with the Ten Commandments , and these canons were backed up by the dissemination of miracle stories concerning the fates of those who did work on Sundays .
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