Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were able to do this partly because some of the messages were generalized enough to allow virtually any interpretation , and partly because messages sometimes combined minute practical detail with broad general principle , allowing teachers to feel they were taking a step in the right direction by changing the surface appearance of their practice without altering its substance . |
| 2 | But the Barclays Franchise Pack can guide you in making that decision by prompting the questions that you should ask of both yourself , the prospective franchiser , and even some of the existing franchisees . |
| 3 | We conclude that the muscle autonomously defines the synaptic site , whereas the motor neuron directs the development of the muscle 's receptive field by stimulating the synthesis and localization of transmitter receptors . |
| 4 | However , it was suggested that he could overcome that hurdle by signing the Blackpool involvement over to his wife . |
| 5 | Labour has claimed ministers such as Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley , Portillo , and Michael Howard , who were associated with the Thatcherite ‘ no turning back ’ group , have gained wider political support by using the review to reinvigorate Conservative thinking about privatisation and ‘ marketisation ’ . |
| 6 | But we can reduce that complexity by answering the question — how do I win my battle ? ’ |
| 7 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 8 | They broke that contract by taking the later ( and much larger ) claim into account . |
| 9 | What is important is the unequivocal , but in my respectful opinion wrong , statement of the law made by Viscount Dilhorne , at p. 632a ( to which I referred at the outset of my speech ) , that Parliament by omitting the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ from section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 ‘ has relieved the prosecution of the burden of establishing that the taking was without the owner 's consent . ’ |
| 10 | A rough but convenient measure of sentence complexity is the average number of words per sentence : that is , we have first to determine the complexity of each sentence by counting the words , and then to derive from this an overall measure of complexity . |
| 11 | The trip was conducted in a cordial atmosphere , and Roh expressed satisfaction that the Chinese government had signalled its willingness to assist with the process of Korean reunification by assuming the role of " honest broker " . |
| 12 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 13 | At the economic level by avoiding the separation of accumulation from production and so giving the working class control of the social surplus product . |
| 14 | The Act aimed to reinforce rather than to diminish parental responsibility by requiring the presence of parents in court and by increasing the courts ' powers to require parents to pay fines for their children 's offences . |
| 15 | Jimmy Quinn looks like landing the jockeys all-weather crown and he can take another step towards that landmark by winning the Milton Handicap on Westfield Moves . |
| 16 | In 1987 a Sotheby 's appraiser valued the seriously damaged panels at $1.25 million , reaching that figure by dividing the auction price paid for a celebrated Thomas Hart Benton mural by three . |
| 17 | ‘ Rehearsal ’ mode or its equivalent is also very useful , as it saves the head-drum and tape from unnecessary wear by displaying the scene to be shot in the viewfinder without the camcorder needing to be held in record-pause while takes are being lined up . |
| 18 | The upper middle class customers of Harrods , Marshall & Snelgrove , Shoolbreds , Maples and Debenham & Freebody , and in the provinces of Kendal , Milnes and Lewis 's , who spent whole mornings walking their floors , completed the inspection and sampling in each department by telling the assistant behind the counter , ‘ Put it down on my account . ’ |
| 19 | Smith has just completed a very successful 1992 campaign , winning all the domestic honours plus a £5 million European bonus by reaching the final stages of the European Cup . |
| 20 | ‘ Importance is attached to the principle that a shareholder should be able to protect his proportion of the total equity by having the opportunity to subscribe for any new issue for cash of equity capital or securities having an equity element . ’ |
| 21 | Work out the stock balance that applies to each entry by subtracting the quantity issued from the quantity received . |
| 22 | I have no wish to intrude my feelings upon the many bereaved people who insert such notices , but I ask myself — why do they invite me to intrude upon their private grief by inserting the notice in that most public of places , the newspaper ? |
| 23 | Current revolutionary activity in the sub-continent is referred to as the ‘ Second War of Independence ’ : the nineteenth-century fight to gain political emancipation by ousting the Spanish has been succeeded by the struggle to achieve economic liberation by discarding the yoke of imperialism . |
| 24 | If law is to be used as ‘ an instrument for casting an alternative political vote by exposing the decision making process to contending views of public necessity ’ ( Lewis and Harden , 1982 , p. 68 ) , the most obvious way in which such an aim might be pursued is through the development of a test case strategy . |
| 25 | Had Puddephat provoked this storm by propositioning the boy ? |
| 26 | enriching the environment of the child 's cultural heritage by balancing the black community response to its heritage . |
| 27 | The circuit performs this function by feeding the output at the Bat position ( pin 9 on IC2 ) to one of the inputs , via diode D13 , of a discrete coincidence gate made up from transistors TR3 and TR4 . |
| 28 | Method B corrects for this overestimate by using the average age at which women give birth , which in England and Wales between 1950 and 1990 was 27.1 years . |
| 29 | We have been obliged to meet this difficulty by treating the lower prizes as marks of distinction for merit rather than as indicating special selection of the design as fitted for separate construction . |
| 30 | She wrote a well-received history of her old school for the Essex Record Office and is working on a local history having followed up her study in this field by taking the London University Diploma in Local History . |