Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmatic essays " L'Ennemi public numero 1 " ( 1935 ) , a sustained defence of all those members of the French teaching profession persecuted by an oppressive bourgeois state for their involvement in the anti-fascist struggle , " and " Sur l'humanisme " ( 1935 ) , a declaration of faith in the humanist values shared only by those involved in the struggle against fascism , both bear the imprint of a co-operative , popular front frame of mind . |
| 2 | A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools . |
| 3 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
| 4 | The merger of Mills and Boon and the Harlequin imprint acts as a paradigm for the sequences of company mergers and takeovers that took place in the sixties and seventies in publishing in Britain and America , a period in which the ownership structures of publishing underwent a profound shift away from specialist producers and distributors of books , towards groups of publishing houses owned largely by corporate organizations whose primary interests were not in publishing . |
| 5 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 6 | As with all restoration projects carried out by any society , cash is the key issue and a share issue has been launched to finance the restoration of both vehicles with £1 shared available in blocks of 10 to adults and singly to children . |
| 7 | It is necessary to designate one LIFESPAN user to be responsible for the operation and control of the offline system , since the activities carried out by this person are significantly more complicated than those met by most LIFESPAN users . |
| 8 | As this latter example suggests , there is also a wide and varied range of trading activities carried out by local authorities ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 9 | The number of audits carried out by each firm was taken from our database at 1992 . |
| 10 | This risk might come from subsequent investigation of the audit , or from investigations carried out by any of the various regulatory bodies such as the Inland Revenue Investigations Branch or one established under the Financial Services Act . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |
| 12 | The DNF contained patriotic leftist Koreans led astray by communist propaganda ; it was important to persuade such people to support moderation and democracy . |
| 13 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 14 | If your army includes sixteen or more Trolls then the possible number of units goes up by 1 for every extra 5 models , eg 16–20 Trolls = up to 4 units , 21–25 Trolls = up to 5 units , 26–30 Trolls = up to 6 units and so on . |
| 15 | The initial wave of deportations followed round-ups carried out by French police in the occupied zone . |
| 16 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 17 | Does he further agree that the report condemns the trendy , discredited methods put forward by Labour and calls for a return to traditional teaching ? |
| 18 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 20 | The brief case study of Langside College , Glasgow provided here illustrates both the innovative approach being taken by this college , and the opportunities opened up by general SVQs for the development of partnerships . |
| 21 | Checks of interview effectiveness by , for example , having the same list of candidates ranked independently by two selection boards invariably indicates rather poor consistency . |
| 22 | On Aug. 31 and Sept. 6 the authorities , reportedly anxious about the imminent visit of the Pope [ see below ] , used force to break up rallies called jointly by four opposition parties , whose purpose was to press demands for a national conference to decide rules for multiparty elections . |
| 23 | Some clients pulled away by sheer willpower ; many did not . |
| 24 | Some Sri Lankans were able to take advantage of employment opportunities brought about by increased government expenditure , but the high inflation rate of the war years cut the standard of living of many Sri Lankans . |
| 25 | This is usually due to fuel shortages brought about by excessive exports of Romania 's home-produced oil . |
| 26 | We can develop in Europe only within the guidelines set out by Central Government , a Government quite clear that a joining of the attitudes and minds is desirable , not federalism . |
| 27 | The Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) wants to have a preliminary design for a short-haul 75-seater codenamed the ys-x worked out by 1990 and to have the aircraft in service by 1994 . |
| 28 | Indeed , following Lucas ( 1973 ) , it could be argued that the more volatile are demand management policies , the more adept does the private sector become at unscrambling the ever changing signals sent out by monetary policy and the less volatile output will be in the face of repeated changes in the direction of monetary policy . |
| 29 | There was a dramatic fall in light industrial output , while savings went up by 133,400 million yuan , the largest rise ever . |
| 30 | President Clinton 's ratings went up by nine percent . |