Example sentences of "by [adj] [conj] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | the amount of the loan is repaid within 12 months of the date on which it was made ; and 2. the period for which amounts are outstanding in respect of loans made to the settlor by that or any other body corporate connected with the settlement , or by him to that or any other such body , in any period of five years , does not exceed 12 months . |
2 | However , the truth of ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) or ( 3 ) is not established by this or any other deduction . |
3 | Fleischmann has been particularly worried about possible strategic implications of their research , believing that much of the negative reactions to it are prejudiced by this and that national security interests have orchestrated attempts to suppress or trash their work . |
4 | Staff numbers were also reduced by 47 though some selective recruitment continued — and overseas personnel increased by 20 . |
5 | In the 1630s , in particular , he presided over a fractious chapter , divided by personal and some ideological conflict . |
6 | The OECD , in its latest review of Ireland , forecasts that growth will fall by more than half this year , to 2.2% ; and it worries that the government 's hard-headed policies are going soft . |
7 | This makes it hard to see why a 20 per cent rule has much appeal , and a more attractive rule might ensure that the activities of participants do not overlap by more than some specific amount . |
8 | For this reason it can prove profitable to branch whenever possible , only on variables which differ by more than some prespecified tolerance , 0.1 for example , from the nearest integer . |
9 | Some goods rose by more than this average percentage . |
10 | The relatively restricted contrasts are invariably carried by open set elements ; the freely recurring contrasts may be carried by open set items ( as in mare : stallion ) , but the members of a pair of lexical items manifesting such a contrast frequently share the same open set element ( i.e. the root ) , the contrast being signalled by one or more closed set elements ) i.e. affixes ) : |
11 | Power for this method is best supplied by one or more external canister filters , which should be capable of turning over the tank water at least three times each hour . |
12 | Between the start of the financial year , on 1 April , and the passing of the Appropriation Act , interim spending on account is authorised by one or more Consolidated Fund Acts . |
13 | These are commonly 1000 km or more across and are either entirely enclosed and therefore drained internally , such as the Lake Eyre Basin of Australia and the Chad and Kalahari Basins of Africa , or they are breached by one or more major river system , such as the region drained by the Zaire ( Congo ) river system ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
14 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
15 | We can not send them , by registered or any other post , to a house two hundred yards across the green ! ‘ |