Example sentences of "[adj] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A key assumption is that the money supply is exogenous — uninfluenced by economic activity — but is controllable by the monetary authorities . |
| 2 | Several methods are available , those most frequently used employing reduction of the nitrate to ammonia and estimation of this by the standard methods . |
| 3 | ‘ They are doing this by the usual process of blaming the Unionists for it all and insinuating that if only the Unionists would talk to the SDLP and through them to Dublin , then everything would calm down and peace and good would reign supreme . ’ |
| 4 | The width is 180 squares , so multiply this by the 70 obtained for height . |
| 5 | I was encouraged in this by the good result of the experimental members ' evening in the 1990-1 programme , when half a dozen members gave excellent short talks . |
| 6 | Vitali Googol actively cultivated an air of sophistication , aided in this by the premature age lines wrought in his visage due to long immersion in deep space and in the warp . |
| 7 | This by the very people who should be protecting them . |
| 8 | In part they are ‘ helped ’ in this by the social organization of enterprises which is posited on a ‘ them ’ ( management ) and ‘ us ’ ( workers ) axis . |
| 9 | Nothing was done to arrest this by the local council , which had discretionary powers to do so . |
| 10 | However , apart from references to this by the local residents , an internal memorandum from the borough engineer dated 26 January 1983 expressly refers to 24-hour operation . |
| 11 | As a matter of principle this seems excessively hard on third parties ; the buffer stock Manager was known publicly to be the representative of the International Tin Council , there was reliance upon this by the third parties and the States therefore should not be able later to deny their involvement . |
| 12 | Gaimar also says that Æthelred II had a brother named Edmund who desired to take his kingdom and was supported in this by the Welsh , as he was married to the daughter of one of their kings . |
| 13 | The first decree was issued in 1972 by the military regime in alliance with the local bourgeoisie , who clearly expected to benefit from the initiative . |
| 14 | Attempts to solve some of the many problems which arise are not made easier by the many changes currently being made in Social Security , the introduction of the Community Charge and the new housing legislation . |
| 15 | The current exercise has been no exception and the task has not been made any easier by the current level of economic uncertainty and its implications for the future size and structure of employment and unemployment at the end of the plan period . |
| 16 | There were already American tourists visiting Europe whose lives were made easier by the newly-patented American Express ‘ Travelers Cheque ’ . |
| 17 | Such hard decisions must be made easier by the better outlook elsewhere in the group . |
| 18 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
| 19 | The Treasury 's task was made easier by the unrealistic but much heralded target of the National Plan , produced by the Department , to achieve an annual growth rate of 4 per cent . |
| 20 | The school manager , in contrast to his or her experience of GCSE , here has to struggle for clarity — a struggle which is made no easier by the over-simplified statements of policy about the unification of general and vocational education which are made by central government and by its political opponents . |
| 21 | Unsuited by the muddling gallop last time , he was most impressive when winning at Chepstow . |
| 22 | Out-and-out stayer Belmount Captain , unsuited by the slow early gallop at Ascot last time , looks best of the remainder . |
| 23 | 3.05:THE lightly-raced HIGHLAND DRESS made an impressive belated debut at Newbury last month , and was not disgraced when unsuited by the slow gallop at Newmarket eight days ago . |
| 24 | Kali and Hades had been plucked from their midst as though by a giant hand and flung several feet away , almost cut in half by the point-blank blast of sawn-off twelve-bores . |
| 25 | CUTTING a person in half by the usual slicing-across-the-stomach method is interesting , says Simon Drake.But sawing a person in up the is so much more so . |
| 26 | When peers are becoming absorbed by the new life-style that a baby brings , a couple may feel left behind if they do not embark on this too . |
| 27 | Isambard 's deep eyes flashed to Harry 's face and lingered there , untroubled by the naked hate and defiance that stared back at him . |
| 28 | First , whether in or out , we would bear the cost of supporting the economies which had been made non-viable by the single currency . |
| 29 | There was considerable interest in the creation of marine zoological laboratories , the first of which was established at Naples in 1872 by the German zoologist Anton Dohrn ( 1840–1909 ) . |
| 30 | World champion Hendry was beaten 9-6 by the 21-year-old Glaswegian in their Coalite World Matchplay quarter-final at Doncaster in a repeat performance of last month 's UK championships at Preston , where McManus won 9-8 . |