Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is necessary to designate one LIFESPAN user to be responsible for the operation and control of the offline system , since the activities carried out by this person are significantly more complicated than those met by most LIFESPAN users . |
2 | a Council Tax Rebates Manager , who will be the Council 's rebate expert and consultant and also the operational manager for 2 of the groups headed up by Principal Officers |
3 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
4 | The brief case study of Langside College , Glasgow provided here illustrates both the innovative approach being taken by this college , and the opportunities opened up by general SVQs for the development of partnerships . |
5 | The Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) wants to have a preliminary design for a short-haul 75-seater codenamed the ys-x worked out by 1990 and to have the aircraft in service by 1994 . |
6 | We can develop in Europe only within the guidelines set out by Central Government , a Government quite clear that a joining of the attitudes and minds is desirable , not federalism . |
7 | But Althusser 's example indicates that there can also be contradictions between aspects of one practice , such as the methods of production which are used in urban and in rural districts , between social groups , for example different factions of a ruling class , and between aspects of two societies , such as the contradictions thrown up by foreign policy . |
8 | The shortcomings focussed on by alternative suppliers a |
9 | The Cowboys went down by 35 points in week one , but Buffalo , by contrast , opened on a high with four passing touchdowns , three caught by Andre Reed . |
10 | But Prudential finance director Michael Lawrence says that the bids put in by all the firms on the tender shortlist were ‘ virtually all of an allness on fees ’ . |
11 | By the 1850s the tensions brought about by social , economic and political change were already beginning to pose a serious threat not merely to the rule of the Tokugawa but to the system itself . |
12 | The possibilities opened up by such work are unlimited . |
13 | They lie in part in technological developments : the growth of ever faster air services for both passengers and freight ; the possibilities opened up by electronic fund transfer and by more and more sophisticated telecommunications . |
14 | Applying the principles laid down by this House in American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 , he first asked himself whether there was a serious question to be tried ; he held that there was , the question being whether or not the facts were such that section 47 was incompatible with article 30 . |
15 | Taken together , the studies carried out by social , economic and political revisionists have opened the way to a far-reaching reassessment of the dynamics of popular unrest during Nicholas II 's reign , the role of the revolutionary intelligentsia , the prospects of stable capitalist and western-style democratic development in the period before the First World War , and the drama of 1917 itself . |
16 | It enables the counsellor to focus upon the changes brought about by changing diet , medication , or social and psychological circumstance . |
17 | 1.1.4 the right to use the Licensed Software for demonstration , testing , support and such other purposes as are directly connected with the exercise of the rights conferred on by this Agreement ; |
18 | However , will he assure the House that the importance of retained profits is truly understood by his Department , especially in relation to unquoted companies where the profits ploughed back by those companies are often the only source of capital ? |
19 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
20 | The Ideas , Kant says , " have an excellent , and indeed indispensably necessary , regulative employment , namely , that of directing the understanding towards a certain goal upon which the routes marked out by all its rules converge , as upon their point of intersection " .2 And he immediately goes on to add : " This point is indeed a mere idea , a focus imaginarius … |
21 | But although the away side did well in the Midlands , there was disappointment at Liverpool , where the locals went down by 31 shots . |
22 | Glue-sniffing means breathing in the vapours given off by certain types of glue in order to get intoxicated or ‘ high ’ , rather like getting drunk on alcohol . |
23 | If he was to prevent the outbreak of rebellion , or stem a flood of appeals outside his jurisdiction , he was bound to operate within the limits laid down by regional custom and privileges . |
24 | But , within the limits laid down by that doctrine , it is for the power-holder to decide what to do . |
25 | In Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 the court held that where a lease provides that an application to appoint a surveyor is to be made to a specified appointing body like the RICS , the application had to follow the procedures laid down by that appointing body . |
26 | More people with incontinence seem to be consulting their doctors about it than has been found in previous studies , but the procedures carried out by general practitioners still seem to be suboptimal . |
27 | The issues thrown up by these works are hardly remote from the lives of students . |
28 | ‘ Their lines were formed so thick and deep , ’ observed one eyewitness in Cumberland 's army , ‘ that the grapeshot made open lanes quite through them , the men dropping down by wholesale . ’ |
29 | The numbers go up by successive doublings , from 8 to 16 , 32 , 64 , 128 , 256 , 512 , 1,024 , 2,048 , 4,096 , 8,192 . |
30 | Civilian workers employed by the police went up by 12 per cent between 1979 and 1988 ( 34,630 to 41,800 ) . |