Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As this latter example suggests , there is also a wide and varied range of trading activities carried out by local authorities ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 6 | The initial wave of deportations followed round-ups carried out by French police in the occupied zone . |
| 7 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is usually due to fuel shortages brought about by excessive exports of Romania 's home-produced oil . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But Althusser 's example indicates that there can also be contradictions between aspects of one practice , such as the methods of production which are used in urban and in rural districts , between social groups , for example different factions of a ruling class , and between aspects of two societies , such as the contradictions thrown up by foreign policy . |
| 14 | The catchy Just Say No slogan of the anti-drug movement invented for Nancy to head were words conjured up by smart PR people . |
| 15 | The time was in fact ripe , not only for a secession from religion ( which , after all , had never given parents anything very tangible ) , but for a transfer of allegiance from the other traditional reference groups of parents : away from the methods prescribed by folklore , custom and the baby 's grandmother , and towards the new blessings held out by scientific mothercraft . |
| 16 | The total of bad debts written off by state-owned regional banks had reached almost A$3,000 million since the deregulation in 1984 of banking activities [ see p.33533 ] . |
| 17 | Bournville and New Earswick were followed by other estates put up by Industrial Housing Associations such as Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight , and many more recent ones , to the present number of about fifty-four . |
| 18 | Most came to terms with the constraints of the existing order but a radical wing refused to do so and dreamed of a society run on rational lines laid down by acknowledged experts ( themselves ) — a society they dubbed ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 19 | On important archaeological sites torn up by windblown salvage operations were carried out . |
| 20 | The shortcomings focussed on by alternative suppliers a |
| 21 | It could be gathered by inshore divers down to ten metres and where necessary dredged from greater depths by nets weighed down by heavy timber frames . |
| 22 | The reason for this can be traced historically to the fact that research on creativity in academic psychology has formed a quite separate strand of enquiry from that originating in the early pathographic analyses carried out by medical writers . |
| 23 | Of course , some of these difficulties may be surmounted if the structure of Whitehall is itself radically altered , with departmental policy-making effectively separated from executive functions carried out by semi-autonomous agencies as proposed in the 1988 Ibbs Next Steps Report ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 24 | The contrast between Russian reality and the ideal vistas opened out by western doctrines could not have been more stark . |
| 25 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 26 | Yes I I presume there must be some form of safeguarding areas laid down by British Coal . |
| 27 | By the 1850s the tensions brought about by social , economic and political change were already beginning to pose a serious threat not merely to the rule of the Tokugawa but to the system itself . |
| 28 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 29 | We expect that a considerable number of these were teenagers with occasional/part. time jobs or school leavers picked up by special employment measures . |
| 30 | That has provided it with a group nucleus of up to 2,500 sows testing a minimum of six mainstream lines backed up by artificial insemination facilities with more than 100 boars . |