Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was a dramatic fall in light industrial output , while savings went up by 133,400 million yuan , the largest rise ever . |
| 11 | President Clinton 's ratings went up by nine percent . |
| 12 | The catchy Just Say No slogan of the anti-drug movement invented for Nancy to head were words conjured up by smart PR people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The shortcomings focussed on by alternative suppliers a |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The contrast between Russian reality and the ideal vistas opened out by western doctrines could not have been more stark . |
| 18 | With no volume gains and falling prices , like-for-like sales in shoes fell back by 1.5 per cent in the six months to 31 July . |
| 19 | The Cowboys went down by 35 points in week one , but Buffalo , by contrast , opened on a high with four passing touchdowns , three caught by Andre Reed . |
| 20 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 21 | We expect that a considerable number of these were teenagers with occasional/part. time jobs or school leavers picked up by special employment measures . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Anthea lay as though dancing on the hot folded sand , the pale , lively hair curved as though blown out on the duck egg blue towel on which her lovely profile rested , the skin darker than the tossed gold , the marvellous bones picked out by clear-cut shadows and glitter of sweat . |
| 24 | They were painters , perhaps , or poets , perhaps , casual acquaintances picked up by friendly Sebastian at a publisher 's party in Bedford Square . |
| 25 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 26 | The Government must now seek ways of strengthening the Union to ensure it continuing vitality , while showing appropriate sensitivity to the nationalistic sentiments stirred up by this election . |
| 27 | Change initiatives have formed the core of Ford 's response to the new competitive challenges of an automobile industry in the throes of ‘ dematurization ’ , a process involving the destabilization of previously predictable patterns of consumer demand , and the coming of new production possibilities opened up by technical change ( Tolliday and Zeitlin , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | The possibilities opened up by such work are unlimited . |
| 29 | They lie in part in technological developments : the growth of ever faster air services for both passengers and freight ; the possibilities opened up by electronic fund transfer and by more and more sophisticated telecommunications . |
| 30 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |