Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guam law had been struck down by lower courts and the Supreme Court had refused to review these rulings . |
| 2 | He upheld the death sentences handed down by lower courts . |
| 3 | The wheel , now gone , was probably an external one early in the mill 's life , covered in by later additions , in a similar way to Damsells Mill near Painswick . |
| 4 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 5 | Sean Rickard , Chief Economist with the National Farmers ' Union ( NFU ) , admits that such a financial harvest is possible ; during the past ten years , ‘ very small farms have increased in number , but decreased in acreage , because generally middle-sized farms are being split up with part of the land sold being taken over by larger farms and part becoming smallholdings . |
| 6 | Notes on a topic by themselves are only of minor value unless they are backed up by wider statements , especially in a subject where there are controversies and differences of opinion . |
| 7 | Early on he makes a general point , one taken up by later writers , that there is a relativity about identity . |
| 8 | The discussion is relevant not only to the main topic of this first Part , but to many other issues taken up by later articles in the collection . |
| 9 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 10 | However , these can only be taken up by larger farmers with access to credit , with a lower vulnerability to the risk that the innovations imply , and with the economic and local political power to assemble all the necessary physical inputs together in time . |
| 11 | Increases in earnings just above the old NIC ‘ steps ’ ( £75 and £115 ) will no longer be wiped out by higher contributions . |
| 12 | Sun told analysts it reckoned the shortfall in margins and the cost of ‘ Free MP ’ would be cancelled out by higher-than-expected orders for the Model 30 in the current quarter . |
| 13 | He has also revealed notes written in the margins of Latin manuscripts by Gothic hands and then rubbed out by later owners . |
| 14 | As the report itself makes clear , ‘ statistical comparisons serve as a pointer only to possible differences in service efficiency which may or may not be borne out by further investigations ’ . |
| 15 | Things would n't have been so bleak , perhaps , if the dramatic rise in population had been brought about by healthier times and a consequent increase in life expectancy ; in the event , many scholars would cite a different cause or causes for it — like the fact that the decline of the apprenticeship system meant that couples were marrying younger , and so increasing the number of child-bearing years per family . |