Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been attributed to mere manipulation of the masses by irresponsible politicians , or explained by theories of economic and class conflicts . |
| 2 | For practitioners , the most important issue is to seek to understand the norms of behaviour within different groups and the extent to which these are challenged , modified or overturned by families living in contemporary Britain , whose social and economic circumstances are vastly different from those which pertained in their land of origin . |
| 3 | Without adducing any real evidence ( he refers sometimes to the dialogue given to women characters in novels or plays by men ) , Jespersen tells us women speak more softly and politely than men , have smaller and less varied vocabularies , use diminutives like teeny weeny , construct their sentences ‘ loosely , and leave them unfinished , all the while jumping from topic to topic . |
| 4 | The Draft Grade Criteria for GCSE include , at all grade levels , criteria relating to generalization applicable to problem solving or investigational tasks set by teachers , examination board or formulated by pupils themselves . |
| 5 | You see them being loaded and unloaded , sailing piled up to the funnel with cotton bales or wrecked by tornadoes . |
| 6 | Notice that , unlike the accumulator array , where each accumulator had generalized functions , each control register or portion of a register has a specific function , although it is accessed or manipulated by instructions in a general way . |
| 7 | He could n't see what the men were doing most of the time , because they were either inside or hidden by buildings . |
| 8 | Consumers will have the right to hit back hard if they suspect overcharging or cheating by firms including banks , stores , BT and water companies . |
| 9 | The criminal law includes and reflects our proper stance against ‘ murderous ’ acts of terrorism conducted by people who are usually exploited or oppressed by forces of occupation . |
| 10 | In the shire counties two at first remained non-party or dominated by independents , but by 1985 ‘ the process of formal party politicization was completed ’ ( Gyford et al . |
| 11 | That is the rule — in this case , a legal one — is backed up or underwritten by sanctions — in this case , legal ones — designed to ensure compliance with it . |
| 12 | If the house is rented or occupied by relatives other than your spouse or carer the rent they pay you could contribute towards any share of the costs you are required to pay . |
| 13 | AUCTIONS Can be either private affairs or organised by dealers . |
| 14 | Increasingly the guided tour or the teacher-dominated exposition is being replaced or supplemented by activities , experiences and exercises demanding greater participation or thought from the pupil . |
| 15 | Nobody from the De La Salle Brothers who run the Training Centre has yet been contacted or interviewed by detectives . |
| 16 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 17 | This is why the most critical thing for anyone who experiences distress is whether they are helped or hindered by friends , relatives and colleagues . |
| 18 | In 1988 the committee came up with reasonably simple minimum standards ( adopted or exceeded by banks in most developed countries by the end of last year ) which sought to match a bank 's capital to the credit risks it runs . |
| 19 | The lyrics which are found in preaching manuals like the Fasisculus Morum and Speculum Christiani or are specifically written or collected by Franciscans like James Ryman , William Herebert and John Grimestone both encapsulate essentials of the Franciscan teaching in a way calculated to catch the imagination and stir the emotions , and incorporate standard interpretations of the meaning of Scripture . |
| 20 | As to article 52 , the refusal to register as British fishing vessels boats owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals of other member states , whether natural or legal persons , deprived those nationals of their right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom in order to pursue their fishing activities under the same conditions as nationals of the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | To restrict access to national quotas to fishing vessels which are owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals , be they natural or legal persons , is neither ‘ suitable ’ nor ‘ necessary ’ in order to enable the local populations dependent on fisheries and related industries to benefit from the quotas . |
| 22 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 23 | ‘ the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 24 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 25 | By co-operating in detailed research and undertaking special projects , the RSPB found evidence that lead weights , accidentally lost or spilled by fishermen , were killing large numbers of mute swans which swallowed them with their food . |
| 26 | The definition the CSD used for its survey was : ‘ organisations which have been set up or adopted by Departments and provided with funds to perform some function which the Government wish to have performed but which it did not wish to be the direct responsibility of a Minister or Department ’ . |
| 27 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 28 | When you have good avenues of communication there is less chance of being surprised or ambushed by events . |
| 29 | Although these changes are usually the subject of fulminations against wage labour and the evils of rural or urban proletarianization , the conditions of wage labour may prove attractive to villagers and town dwellers , not necessarily because they are duped by promises or pressurized by taxes , but because of the very real specific constraints of non-monetarized social orders . |
| 30 | This can be achieved by ensuring that we fall within the exemption contained in Section 60(1) of the Companies Act , which states that an offer or invitation is not to be treated as made to the public ‘ if it can properly be regarded , in all the circumstances , as not being calculated to result , directly or indirectly , in the shares or debentures becoming available for subscription or purchase by persons other than those receiving the offer or invitation , or otherwise as being a domestic concern of the persons receiving and making it ’ . |