Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union was concerned by the rate of job cuts , with 7,000 due by the end of next month and reports that another 20,000 could go in the following year . |
| 2 | Albert Ayme is also the subject of a major retrospective organised by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts . |
| 3 | Almost forgotten at the time of her death in 1975 , Madame Yevonde is now the deserving subject of a major retrospective organised by the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society . |
| 4 | Of the over three hundred entries , 30 short-listed by the assessors have been on display in Glasgow 's Princes Square , and are being shown at the RIBA in London until 3 March . |
| 5 | Several times he had the nose of his car in front , only to be thwarted by some brave late-braking by the Jaguar man . |
| 6 | At least nine other Sharpeville Day rallies were held in townships around Johannesburg , some organised by the ANC and others by the rival Zulu-oriented Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 7 | RESIGNATIONS of underwriting members from the Lloyd 's insurance market could top 2,000 by the end of this year , a new record in the number of departures from the market . |
| 8 | In P1/T2 this means and we pivot in the x 1 -column ( and x 2 -row by the PRS rule ) to get P1/T5 . |
| 9 | As it stands , the Committee consists of the Mayor of Venice who acts as Vice-Chairman ( the present outgoing Chairman is architect Paolo Portoghesi ) , and eighteen other members : three appointed by the local authority , three by the provincial government , five by the Veneto region , three by the Council of Ministers , a further three by the major trade-union confederations and a final member from among the permanent staff of the Biennale . |
| 10 | Eleven forty three by the microwave 's clock . |
| 11 | The government plans to double coal production from its present annual total of 1 billion tonnes to 2 billion by the year 2020 . |
| 12 | The card followed him , its corners bent and the stamps half torn-off by the time it reached him . |
| 13 | Although the government was cautious about enrolling men from newly incorporated minorities , the size of the army rose in line with the population — which increased from some 15 million under Peter to double that figure under Catherine II and reached about 67 million by the 1850s . |
| 14 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 15 | Tie Rack opened nine stores and closed four in the first half , and plans to have opened another 14 by the year-end , of which at least five will be in the UK . |
| 16 | But as Population and Environment Minister Emil Salim points out , the city 's population will approach 12 million by the end of the decade . |
| 17 | Shocked , frightened , and more than half scared by the desolation that threatened to consume her , she slid away from him . |
| 18 | Day after day , he was given the same old put-off by the stage doorman about Viola not being there . |
| 19 | Propelled into what looks very much like a 19th-century diplomatic morass , Mr Clinton is torn between the two styles ; and America is driven mad by the imperatives , first , of leading and , second , of getting its nervous friends behind it . |
| 20 | Fairfax has a couple of gins and tonic ready by the time I have the fire blazing . |
| 21 | The introduction of Japanese plants to South Wales , and later to north-east England ( led by Nissan ) , was widely seen chiefly as a spur to UK firms to ‘ improve ’ their working practices and productivity , although Dunning ( 1986 ) estimated that Japanese employment in the UK could increase to 22,000 by the end of the 1980s and to a possible 250,000 by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | Presumably this puts the liability of the railway company up to £200 on the same level as that fixed by the common law and , on the other hand , does not deprive it of any of the defences pleadable at common law which are discussed above , e.g . |
| 23 | By November 1924 , the number of subscribers had fallen to 1000 and in 1925 the Electrophone Company went into voluntary liquidation — killed stone-dead by the advance of the new-fangled ‘ wireless ’ . |
| 24 | UK and Netherlands reservations about the viability of the proposed EC/WEU merger appeared to be vindicated in early 1991 by the EC Commission 's failure to agree on any joint policy on the Gulf conflict ( Germany and Denmark opposing all military involvement in the region ) , at a time when the forces despatched by the UK , France and Italy to support the US-led alliance against Iraq were making a visible and effective contribution to the restoration of Kuwait 's sovereignty [ see pp. 37934 ; 37941 ] . |
| 25 | It was also splashed over the back seat of the car , which was then set ablaze by the pair , who then fled into the darkness . |
| 26 | The very high level of demand for labour was maintained throughout the late sixties and early seventies by the trend of capital accumulation . |
| 27 | This was secured by company assets and personal guaranteed by the directors , which we were reluctant to increase . |
| 28 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 29 | The right to mine Oakenhill was bought in the early '80s by the Free Miners , who still exercise their mining privileges in the Forest under laws laid down 7 centuries ago . |
| 30 | ‘ Sleeping rough by the War Memorial . |