Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] by [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 2 | Or did his advice derive from the crooked workings of a twisted kind of covetousness — perhaps the kind prohibited by the Ninth Commandment , Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour 's wife , which had always seemed superfluous after the Sixth . |
| 3 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 4 | The disruption caused by a second spell in which roads and pavements are dug up would be too great . |
| 5 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |
| 6 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 7 | Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way . |
| 8 | What the second stage needed was not a distribution , such as a successful general adoption of the co-operative form of organisation would have prompted , of the wealth created by the first stage , but rather an accumulation and concentration . |
| 9 | With equal division , the wealth inherited by the next generation is It should however be remembered that the process by which wealth is divided may be considerably influenced by public policy . |
| 10 | In other moves , the Chancellor increased by a fifth the duty charged on free fuel supplied to company car users for private use and abolished the 50 per cent discount on this for drivers doing more than 18,000 business miles a year . |
| 11 | The second pitch continues the theme initiated by the first : good rock , great protection and sustained interest , before popping out onto the grassy clifftop , where there is a fine selection of arboreal belays . |
| 12 | The artist 's impression of Ivan 's majestic features and lavish robes captures the awe inspired by the first Grand Prince to be crowned ‘ Tsar ’ . |
| 13 | In one unwelcome marriage you learn much about the means of evading a second , and still retaining the consequence gained by the first . |
| 14 | The mortgagees had been advised by their own solicitors that the charge executed by the first appellant in September was ineffective and they therefore sought a further mortgage to be executed by both appellants . |
| 15 | He veered past the mound topped by the 18th tee . |
| 16 | The distinction implied by the first question — transducing versus flow visualization — is not complete . |
| 17 | The novel finding , of central importance here , comes from the behaviour shown by a third group of subjects . |
| 18 | Dierdriu had maintained the legend begun by the first Wolfkings , but her granddaughter would create a new legend altogether . |
| 19 | British fascism originated in several distinct and contradictory reaction to the long-term decline of Britain and the dislocation caused by the First World War . |
| 20 | Denoting by P i the price charged by the ith firm , the consumer 's budget constraint is where M denotes total income . |
| 21 | This was a legitimate reaction to a real change : it was , arguably , the price exacted by the nineteenth century from Nonconformist ministers for the multitude of benefits they and Nonconformity had obtained from that century . |
| 22 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 23 | What really marked the end of Webster fortunes was the policy pursued by the fourth and fifth baronets , both Godfreys . |
| 24 | When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ? |
| 25 | The rate fell by a third after thousands of people took part in a mass meditation experiment in Washington . |
| 26 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 27 | This is just the approach taken by the second theory to be considered . |
| 28 | Although the centre declined by the second century A.D. , due largely to pirate raiding , the Roman remains are considerable . |
| 29 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) In May 1983 B.M.T. to which the application signed by the first plaintiff and altered by the third defendant had been submitted , offered C.M.C. a loan of £185,500 on the security of the bakery . |