Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 2 | Far-reaching proposals published by the NRA call on the government to set legally-binding quality standards for not only rivers , estuaries and canals but lakes , groundwaters and coastal stretches . |
| 3 | If the essential educational standard or technical skills required by the job/personnel specification are not there then the candidate can be quickly rejected . |
| 4 | A body of representative groups headed by the Soil Association believes that it is possible to turn 20 per cent of Britain 's farming organic by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | Classic bathrooms inspired by the great ages of design . |
| 6 | In the late 1970s , two budgets that were potentially important in urban economic development were the regional programmes implemented by the Department of Industry , and the policies effected by the National Enterprise Board . |
| 7 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 8 | Furthermore , if resources permit , it might be possible to also examine one of the telecommunications-related projects organised by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry which will contribute to the development of the broader digital network system . |
| 9 | What we do find , as with the few collective farms in Roslavl' , is an obsession with possible growth-points admired by the Bolsheviks . |
| 10 | Islamic groups led by the League of the Sons of Yemen and the Yemen Reform Group [ see p. 38075 ] had urged a boycott of the referendum , and staged a rally in San'aa , the capital , on May 12 in which an estimated 25,000-30,000 people participated . |
| 11 | Influenced by J.M. Keynes , one of its fourteen authors , it argued for expansionist economic policies financed by the state through a Board of National Investment and a vast public works programme . |
| 12 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 13 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |
| 14 | The current value of outstanding contracts placed by the Ministry of Defence with the companies listed is as follows : British Aerospace , £1,625 million ; Royal Ordnance , £315 million ; VSEL , £1,070 million ; Ferranti , £360 million ; and Leyland Daf , £105 million . |
| 15 | As one of its responses to the International Statistical Year , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development had commissioned a comparative study of national R and D efforts , based on an officially agreed definition of research and development activity ; the so-called ‘ Frascati definition ’ , named after one of a number of pleasant resorts favoured by the OECD for conferences . |
| 16 | Antiracism in this sense is a phenomenon which grew out of the political openings created by the 1981 riots . |
| 17 | The French and the Italians had ICL — the Britain-based computer maker recently bought by Fujitsu — thrown out of a number of collaborative projects financed by the Community . |
| 18 | Also , strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population . |
| 19 | Such agreements on extraterritoriality are common where American forces or advisers are stationed abroad , but in Iran it aroused memories of the humiliating capitulations demanded by the British and the Russians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 20 | In the case of national trends , fiscal and monetary Policies adopted by the Labour government between 1976 and 1979 and particularly by the Conservative government between 1979 and 1982 had a marked effect on many urban manufacturing companies . |
| 21 | He maintains that foreign exchange intervention and management of the Exchange Equalisation Account could be carried out by private institutions , as could the banking role , and monetary policies designed by the Treasury could be implemented by a major commercial bank for a fee . |
| 22 | To make the point , consider the striking contrast during the period 1973–85 ‘ between the serious economic setbacks suffered by the newly oil-rich Mexico and the notable strides made by the oil-poor and oil-hungry Brazil ’ ( Hirschman , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | We need a successor operator of some sort that matches the current state against the possible states described by the rules in order to decide which of these should be extended . |
| 24 | WASHINGTON , D.C. In an effort to ease the economic woes precipitated by the dissolution of the Soviet Union , many of America 's premier museums recently sent food and supplies to their Russian counterparts . |
| 25 | Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government . |
| 26 | Observing in the classroom , we have been very encouraged to see that many programs that were originally designed and written to be used with a whole class ( maybe as many as 30 pupils participating ) are very effective with groups of pupils working on their own , either with the same approach taken with the whole class or with a subset of the possible activities offered by the program being tackled ( eg , PIRATES , JANEPLUS and TRANSPOTS ) . |
| 27 | The result has been that in many GIS spatial queries initiated by the user must be formulated in terms of a software-specific command language . |
| 28 | The combined maps issued by the three tramway companies used a symbol to indicate through services , under the description ‘ Services are operated ’ , and the intending passenger might have been forgiven for expecting to see Company 's cars working on them . |
| 29 | Since the Library 's automated system ( VTLS ) is based on US MARC format , it was decided in November 1989 that it would be sensible for the Library to adopt the descriptive rules prepared by the Library of Congress : the Bibliographic Description of Rare Books ( BDRB ) published in 1981 . |
| 30 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |