Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative explanation for the more favourable results at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is that the type of stricture encountered by the two techniques is different , percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography being preferred when imaging suggests a high stricture and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography when it is low . |
| 2 | The treatment was as diverse as the geographical distribution , from the simple four-part settings of the complete Psalter in Polish by Mikolaj Gomolka ( Cracow , 1580 ) , employing tunes drawn from plainsong , Protestant song , and the popular music of Eastern Europe generally , to the astonishing collection of settings of Marot-Bèze published by the Dutch master Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( 15621621 ) in four books ( Amsterdam , 1604 , 1613 , 1614 , and Haarlem , 1621 ) . |
| 3 | Thus the question of legitimacy is crucial , and particularly the levels of support enjoyed by the civil political process as a whole compared with those enjoyed by the military . |
| 4 | Who then is going to organise the packages of support required by the new structure of Community Care ? |
| 5 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very |
| 7 | THE Leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to be a little more upright within two years , according to a commission of experts appointed by the Italian government to decide how to stop it collapsing . |
| 8 | The dawn of hope signalled by the French Revolution had ended as murderous confusion , and radicalism in England was increasingly under attack from both repressive government and popular opinion . |
| 9 | The two-bedroom cottage needs refurbishment but it is in a superb location , in the middle of woodland owned by the National Trust and overlooking the River Yealm . |
| 10 | Figures on the value of estates left by the deceased are sometimes used to calculate the overall distribution of wealth . |
| 11 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 12 | Hard data on the degree of protection afforded by the homoeopathic remedies , therefore , does not exist . |
| 13 | Indeed , the median number of γ-interferon expressing cells in the lamina propria was almost half the total of leucocytes identified by the anti-CD45 antibody ( range : 20–88% ) , while 13.5% of normal intraepithelial lymphocytes were positive for γ-interferon ( range : 2–35% ) . |
| 14 | These embryologists could not accept the explanation of epigenesis provided by the French philosopher Descartes , who suggested that there were mechanical forces which moulded the embryo . |
| 15 | Or was the way they engaged with these theoretical explanations of racism governed by the same conditions as applied to their reading of the ‘ primary ’ material ? |
| 16 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 17 | An alternative line of defence offered by the National Bank for its failure to curb inflation ( EP , 10 November 1986 ) is that it does not have the power to prevent the money supply from growing faster than its planned rate . |
| 18 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
| 19 | The original list of damage compiled by the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation has now been verified by the The Conservation Practice in West Sussex , England , and Gifford Consulting Engineers , who were invited to inspect the damage by UNESCO in preparation for a coordinated relief effort . |
| 20 | A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement . |
| 21 | The budgets of course proposed by the Liberal and Labour groups , have some aspects which would be desirable . |
| 22 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 23 | This is achieved by limiting the range of cases heard by the High Court , by extending the jurisdiction of the county court , ensuring that , in most cases , the same remedies are available in the county court as in the High Court , amending the transfer system , reviewing the costs sanction system that applies when a case is taken inappropriately in the High Court , improving the trial facilities at county courts by concentrating trials at centres where continuous trial facilities are available , providing new centres , creating a new tier of Circuit judges to take additional civil jurisdiction burdens , and increasing the number of people eligible for appointment as county court and district registrars or district judges . |
| 24 | The main opposition parties , the Union pour la democratie française ( UDF ) , a coalition of groups led by the former Prime Minister Giscard d'Estaing , and the Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR ) , the Gaullist party led by Chirac , have very similar and , in comparison with British party-political programmes , not very detailed , manifestos . |
| 25 | At first , the parish was responsible for its poor , then came the union of parishes and then the Boards of Guardians followed by the local authorities ( county and county borough councils ) . |
| 26 | Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that the proportion of income contributed by the basic state pension is likely to decline in future years because of the decision to link benefit rates to prices rather than wages . |
| 27 | Similarly , the ‘ rediscovery of poverty ’ through studies conducted by people such as Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend revealed hundreds of thousands living at or below the standard of income recommended by the National Assistance scales and a continuing increase in the numbers claiming National Assistance benefits . |
| 28 | So we should like to see an authoritative source of comparative APRs : both typical rates and the extremes of the range of rates , for different types of credit and ( where this makes a significant difference ) different types of purchase financed by the same type of credit . |
| 29 | I should like to hark back to a comment by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , North-East ( Mr. Moss ) who instanced how , in other European nations , the amount of money provided by the national Government to domestic agriculture was very much greater than in this country . |
| 30 | The existence of a powerful taboo against religion in society as a whole , together with the lack of opportunity given by the explicit curriculum for questioning the taboo , ensures that most of this implicit curriculum operates against religion — against its being taken seriously at all . |