Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include , the significance of the inaccuracy ; whether reasonable steps where taken by the data user to check the accuracy of information held and what procedures were followed by the data user once the inaccuracy was brought to light ( DPR Guideline 4 ) . |
| 2 | In fact the definition will also include persons entitled to intermediate leasehold interests where created by the landlord between the date of the agreement and the grant of the lease . |
| 3 | Meetings are to be held otherwise when and where determined by the trustee ( r 6.153(1) ) . |
| 4 | Often , these strategies were invented by the pupils rather than taught by the teacher . |
| 5 | Although limited by the Parliament Acts and the convention of non-involvement in financial matters , the House of Lords is the only such check . |
| 6 | He dropped it first , it seems , on considering sporting-dog breeds , notably greyhounds ; for these , although formed by the human artifice of selective breeding , had been given both structures and instincts useful in the wild . |
| 7 | Gregory himself did not doubt the efficacy of the saint , but clearly Leudast and his supporters were less than impressed by the bishop 's special relationship with his supernatural patron . |
| 8 | In this different culture it can be said that the basic dynamics of the Oedipal situation appear , albeit modified by the different structural and cultural arrangements . |
| 9 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 10 | Lothian Region Transport is a bus company which , although owned by the Council , acts independently as though it were a privately owned firm , it has no powers or funding to subsidise bus services . |
| 11 | In the postwar period , international institutions have , after all , played a much greater role than previously , albeit dominated by the United States , and , to a lesser extent , the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | His house in a respectable street in Balham smelt damp and cold , an effect enhanced rather than discouraged by the adopted English cosiness of the decoration : patterned carpets , patterned wallpaper , smoked-glass lampshades and brass knick-knacks on the walls . |
| 13 | It will be run by the international hotel group Novotel , although built by the airport and Cookstown construction company McAleer and Rushe . |
| 14 | Haymo , although selected by the monks of Rochester as their next choice had to wait until August 1319 , before he was consecrated Bishop . |
| 15 | The proportion of responders achieving independence from parents rose with age and suggests that independence is delayed rather than prevented by the presence of cystic fibrosis . |
| 16 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 17 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 18 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 19 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 20 | The continuing strength of the urban-rural shift is evident from Figure 4.4 , albeit overlain by the drift from North to South . |
| 21 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |
| 22 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Although adopted by the Organisation for African Unity , the declaration was originally drafted by the ANC in consultation with its allies in South Africa . |
| 24 | At first , the expansion in student numbers was more than matched by the creation of new academic jobs . |
| 25 | However , the increased rate at which new patients are admitted has clearly been more than matched by the rate at which patients have been discharged . |
| 26 | When we hid a regular flow of sound , keen material and the PFF Navigation Training Unit was in full swing , we saw the steady development of tactics geared to the constant production of new and better " stores " — target indicators , hooded flares and many other innovations , all of which was more than matched by the improvement in navigational techniques . |
| 27 | So-called " spontaneous privatization " , initiated by company managers , although vetoed by the State Property Agency , was also increasing , as was the role of " investor-initiated privatization " . |
| 28 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 29 | Although encircled by the Dwarfs , half starved and weary from the march , the Orcs gave a good account of themselves by fighting their way out of the trap and out-distancing the Dwarfs . |
| 30 | It also included the committee 's limit of 15 B-2s , 60 fewer than requested by the Bush administration . |