Example sentences of "[noun pl] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a broad historical perspective , one can see the influence of the ‘ paradigm ’ of the natural sciences on the emerging social sciences , and also certain pressures exerted on the arts by the latter . |
| 2 | They were all young , fit and well trained in martial arts by the four Orientals who ran the sect as a front for their Triad drugs ring . |
| 3 | Yet , a positive impact was made by the publication of such guidelines by the English Law Society in 1989 . |
| 4 | And dumbfounded unionist members in Carrick have been sent a book explaining the controversial employment and investment guidelines by the INC 's president , Fr Sean McManus . |
| 5 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 6 | Whether it 's simply the right songs by the right band at the right time , who knows . |
| 7 | The Minister of Education , Mr Yitzhak Navon , said yesterday that he was suspending a ban on the songs by the state-run Broadcasting Authority pending a final decision by the attorney-general . |
| 8 | The Ragusans represented a way of life which was completely different from that imposed upon the Balkan peoples by the Ottoman occupation , and their influence on life in the cities was of great historic significance . |
| 9 | A recent Bank project in north-west Brazil , Planaforo , which aims to help correct some of the damage caused to indigenous peoples by the Bank-funded road through Rondonia state , has itself come under attack . |
| 10 | You can tell how preoccupied they are , when two dykes settle for old chestnuts by the seventeenth-century male metaphysicals . |
| 11 | The central position of theology as the ‘ queen ’ of disciplines was paralleled in later centuries by the similar position occupied by philosophy in Scottish universities ( Davie 1961 ) . |
| 12 | As the war continued and the death toll at sea mounted , Wilson 's patriotism , his sense of outrage at the methods by the German government to break the Allied blockade and the strength of his anti-German sentiments grew until they became almost pathological . |
| 13 | A list of 398 nominees had been drawn up ( 311 put forward on separate lists by the 15 republican CP delegations according to quotas , 85 on a list drawn up by Gorbachev in consultation with the delegation heads , and Gorbachev and Ivashko ex officio ) . |
| 14 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 15 | ( The true picture was unfortunately not told to RW&P readers by the much-travelled Chris Thau in one of his recent reports . |
| 16 | With all the sense of timing learnt as champion jockey , he creates situation after situation of rising suspense to hold readers by the hundred thousand glued to the battle of wits between hero and villains that he has devised . |
| 17 | On April 27 , George Brizan , hitherto Finance Minister , was appointed Minster of Agriculture while retaining responsibility for Trade , Industry , Production and Energy ; Tillman Thomas became the new Finance Minster and was replaced as Minister of Works , Communications and Public Utilities by the former Agriculture Minister Phinsley St Louis . |
| 18 | It is built into the structure of organizations by the horizontal division of labour as well as by the vertical division into departments , sections and units . |
| 19 | Federal Express Corp is to install ‘ several thousand ’ colour and monochrome X-terminals in its Memphis , Tennessee headquarters and local field offices by the mid-1990s , and has placed an order for the pilot stage of its upgrade programme with Network Computing Devices Inc . |
| 20 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 21 | And this very executive power is again checked and kept within bounds by the two houses , through the privilege they have of enquiring into , impeaching , and punishing the conduct ( not indeed of the King , which would destroy his constitutional independence ; but , which is more beneficial to the public ) , of his evil and pernicious counsellors . |
| 22 | A feature of this section is a stream issuing from Hackergill Cave on the south bank , but this , along with the other wonders of the river hereabouts , must be regarded as out of bounds by the prudent pedestrian . |
| 23 | It is hard to distinguish any specific impact of the introduction of plough agriculture and draught animals by the Spanish after AD 1521 . |
| 24 | It is listed as one of the world 's most endangered animals by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature . |
| 25 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |
| 26 | Come five o ’ clock on a Saturday afternoon you 'd bundle your way out of the pictures , delirious with image overload , to be hit between the eyes by the blinding light of day and a balmy blanket of heat . |
| 27 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
| 28 | The formation of the double stranded oligonucleotide in the competition of the single stranded probes by the complementary strand can be seen at the bottom of Figure 2B and is clearly demonstrated in Figure 3 ( lanes 9-12 ) ( no extract or poly ( d ( I-C ) is added , only competitor oligonucleotides ) . |
| 29 | By borrowing Chinese cameras , and gaining access to more sophisticated foreign models that had been ‘ liberated ’ from bourgeois homes by the Red Guards , he gradually mastered the art and became a very proficient photographer . |
| 30 | This will enable it to be selling 9,000 homes by the mid-1990s . |