Example sentences of "[verb] by the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From June 1991 until Dec. 4 , 1991 , the DP had participated , as the main opposition party , in an administration dominated by the former communist party , the Socialist Party of Albania ( SPA ) . |
| 2 | A little house , surrounded by the same black trees , at the foot of which , his chops on the whited steps , his sinuous length curved around its corner in a dragon-clasp , the long wolf lay , whose hairs were cut in harmony with the incisive feathering of the trees . |
| 3 | Both gain from being surrounded by the same protective shell , though they diverge from one another in the precise thickness of shell that they ‘ prefer ’ . |
| 4 | The variables and definitions for 1981 will differ from those in 1991 , as described above ; it would obviously be desirable if the 1981 Census sample were organised by the same geographical zones , and the same codings of variables as that for 1991 . |
| 5 | These figures are more than 200 times higher than the official toll of 31 deaths as claimed by the former Soviet government . |
| 6 | That is owned by the same stable if you like , it 's a publisher and it 's the Sun . |
| 7 | The trade unions were insisting that Britain abided by the same social protection rules as other EC countries . |
| 8 | At a press conference the Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , agreed that it was likely that the surveillance equipment had been installed by the former Soviet authorities , but he insisted that it was Russia 's responsibility , as the successor state , to remove them . |
| 9 | Russia , which in January 1992 had assumed the special guest status enjoyed by the former Soviet Union , on May 7 applied for full membership of the Council . |
| 10 | Is he oppressed by the same obscure shame that I felt when I read the letter ? |
| 11 | They are all , however , designed to work by the same physiological principles , and on this basis they have common components . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State will know that it was one of his predecessors , Lord Carrington , who was instructed by the former Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , not to have formal contacts with the PLO in 1980 . |
| 13 | But people will probably only all co-operate when they are all threatened by the same external |
| 14 | The chair of the Russian Central Bank , Georgy Matiukhin , announced on Jan. 10 that Russia wanted a deferral of interest payments on the $84,000 million debt owed by the former Soviet Union to commercial banks and western governments , in addition to the deferral of principal repayments agreed on Dec. 17 [ see p. 38656 ] . |
| 15 | WITH its lacy bargeboards and dramatic finials echoing the original features of this Norfolk rectory , it 's difficult to imagine the conservatory was n't built by the same Victorian craftsmen . |
| 16 | Ingleborough is not in view from Clapham and the near presence of the mountain , so dominant when seen from other directions , is not suspected by the many admiring and envious visitors who parade the charming byways of this most delightful of Yorkshire villages . |
| 17 | We formed a commission , chaired by the former international referee Winston Jones , who looked carefully at all aspects of the law changes . |
| 18 | The conference was chaired by the former Conservative MP Sir John Gorst and held at the Guildhall . |
| 19 | Was n't she motivated by the same inner compulsion , the urge to forge ahead ? |
| 20 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 21 | This , and other intimate details of the lives of the people of Central Asia , are now being researched by the many Turkish companies that are excited by the prospect of 10% green-eyed , 12% hazel-eyed and 100% starry-eyed potential customers longing to lose their material innocence . |
| 22 | The colouring of the mosaics was almost identical and , although the guilloche of the former is simpler , they are both enclosed by the same outer border of white " T " shapes on a red background . |
| 23 | This idea of a white conspiracy , between police , unemployed youth , employers , and the mass media relies on the assumption that equivalent effects in disparate contexts must be produced by the same omnipresent agency or cause . |
| 24 | Meet The Feebles ( 18 ) is a smutty satire on the Muppet show , written and performed by the same New Zealanders who made the enjoyably gross sci-fi romp , Bad Taste . |
| 25 | This academic flexibility of the term is reflected by the many different policy areas regionalism covers in practice . |
| 26 | They appear even today as can be shown by the many supposed sightings of such creatures as the North American big-foot and its distant relation , the Yeti , and even the Loch Ness Monster , which has prompted an exhaustive scientific survey . |
| 27 | Additionally dancing , yoga , keep-fit-to-music and relaxation classes are readily available through most local authorities as well as being offered by the many specialist bodies listed in both the Health and Leisure Activities chapters . |
| 28 | They stood frozen , all transfixed by the same small , chill frisson of shock , but no one exclaimed . |
| 29 | And both are gripped by the same dogmatic delusion . |
| 30 | The new draft law both adds teeth and liberalises , Customs officers will have the right to check all luggage including diplomatic bags , the latter in accordance with the Vienna Diplomatic Convention of 1961 signed by the former Soviet Union and recognised by Russia . |