Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 2 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 3 | These features make it possible to swim by sinusoidal undulations . |
| 4 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 5 | The definition of breakdown now adopted is in line with that used by other companies . |
| 6 | One way to test this possibility is to ask direct questions about the incidence of these experiences in housework , and compare them with that reported by other groups of workers . |
| 7 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 8 | The H pylori antibody positivity rate of 39% of young adults in 1969 is somewhat higher than that reported by other surveys and the consistency of our antibody results over the 21 year period that the testing is valid . |
| 9 | Is it possible to begin to understand the difficulties minority elders face , those of ordinary ageing compounded by extra factors ? |
| 10 | I thought that progressives , political progressives in this country were prepared to stand by public services and believe in them sufficiently to say this will cost you and we are prepared to put the bill to you because we believe you will pay the bill . |
| 11 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 12 | After nearly 10 hours of debate the Federal Assembly on April 22 approved by 144 votes to 33 with 47 abstentions the friendship treaty signed with Germany in February 1992 [ see p. 38777 ] . |
| 13 | The Diet on May 22 approved by 153 votes to four a new treaty on good-neighbourliness and mutual co-operation with Russia to replace the 1948 Treaty of Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance with the former Soviet Union [ see pp. 38444-45 ; 38587 ] . |
| 14 | Approaches are somewhat more teacher-centred and consequently easier to handle by average teachers than parallel material from the Primary Education Improvement Project in the North , but interesting and relevant nevertheless . |
| 15 | The Knesset on Dec. 2 approved by 37 votes to 36 the first reading of an amendment to legislation which would permit meetings between Israeli citizens and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 16 | To cope with its new level of business the Great Western has a fleet of thirty-one supplemented by some sets of locomotive-hauled stock . |
| 17 | I have always been half impressed , half daunted by these paragons . |
| 18 | Waigel presented to the Bundestag on Sept. 8 his federal budget for 1993 accompanied by medium-term targets up to 1996 . |
| 19 | The government on Aug. 12 survived by 168 votes to 122 an opposition no confidence motion alleging that it was failing to tackle lawlessness . |
| 20 | Saddlers ' Hall was sent into the lead by Pat Eddery two furlongs out and annihilated his opponents , sprinting clear to score by 10 lengths . |
| 21 | The UN Security Council on Oct. 2 voted by 14 votes to nil with one abstention ( China ) to adopt Resolution 778 impounding oil-related Iraqi assets worth an estimated US$500-800,000,000 , frozen since August 1990 [ see p. 37639 ] , to pay for humanitarian relief , compensate victims of the Gulf war and finance the destruction of Iraqi weapons . |
| 22 | The General Assembly on Sept. 22 voted by 127 votes to six ( Kenya , Swaziland , Tanzania , Yugoslavia , Zambia and Zimbabwe ) with 26 abstentions , to exclude the FRY from its proceedings and to ask it to apply for UN membership , rather than accepting its claim to succeed automatically to the General Assembly seat formerly held by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) . |
| 23 | I am ashamed to say that I have heard this said by social workers : ‘ all they really need is to be warm , comfortable and well fed ’ . |
| 24 | I was about to add : If you are agreeable — and if you are prepared to abide by certain conditions … . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 26 | At the same time , the integrity of the profession was maintained by offering membership only to those who were willing to abide by prescribed standards . |
| 27 | In Joyce v Yeomans [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 21 the Court of Appeal said that although the impression made on the trial judge by expert witnesses is less important than that made by lay witnesses , it will still carry considerable weight . |
| 28 | 1981 ) , and that the actual rate of offending is much higher than that revealed by official figures ( Hindelang , 1976 ; West and Farrington , 1973 ) . |
| 29 | This never came to trial and in the autumn he sold the land to IBM for a price similar to that received by other farmers , with a sum for damages much smaller than that he had sought in his suit . |
| 30 | The Supreme Court on Nov. 10 ruled by four votes to three in favour of the constitutionality of President Jorge Serrano Elias 's September 1991 decision to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with neighbouring Belize [ see p. 38432 ] . |