Example sentences of "[noun pl] by the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell how preoccupied they are , when two dykes settle for old chestnuts by the seventeenth-century male metaphysicals . |
| 2 | A list of 398 nominees had been drawn up ( 311 put forward on separate lists by the 15 republican CP delegations according to quotas , 85 on a list drawn up by Gorbachev in consultation with the delegation heads , and Gorbachev and Ivashko ex officio ) . |
| 3 | With all the sense of timing learnt as champion jockey , he creates situation after situation of rising suspense to hold readers by the hundred thousand glued to the battle of wits between hero and villains that he has devised . |
| 4 | Now they are run off computers by the crisply-produced hundred . |
| 5 | The protests ranged from sensitive lobbying of the superpowers by the moderate Arab nations to the issuing of terrorist threats by Lebanese-based Moslem extremists [ see p. 37266 for statements by Arab Co-operation Council on the issue ] . |
| 6 | Some of these sites may well represent the result of this reorganization , which in Britain produced by a process of sub-division four provinces by the early fourth century . |
| 7 | It says : ’ Nevertheless , the overall picture of greater breadth of experience and skill in the British system , and the more positive appraisals by the British young people of what they were learning , is sustained . ’ |
| 8 | In a way they were both already dinosaurs by the mid '60s , as legislation began to put more emphasis on efficiency and sophistication than on simplicity and brute force . |
| 9 | Some 300 minshuku are recommended to foreigners by the Japanese National Tourist Office ( JNTO ) who also advise on pension selection . |
| 10 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 11 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 12 | Over the years I have listened to many forceful speeches by the right hon. Gentleman , who always speaks common sense , and I have often agreed with him . |
| 13 | For example to find all the recordings with Symphony in the title composed by Sibelius together with any recordings by the Royal Philharmonic ( R P O ) you would enter Symphony* ( or just *Sym ) in A61 , Sibelius in B61 and R P O in F62 . |
| 14 | What then of the use made of schools by the various socio-economic groups ? |
| 15 | The Government White Paper ‘ Working Together — Education and Training ’ indicates clearly that it is the Government 's intention to extend T.V.E.I. to all secondary schools by the early 1990's . |
| 16 | These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves . |
| 17 | These strange creatures are carried eastwards at a depth of about 700 feet by the great ocean-wide current known as the Gulf Stream . |
| 18 | It may be that a study commissioned from contractors by the British National Space Centre will provide useful evidence on the cash value of remote sensing ; it is particularly timely in view of the appointment of Professor Pearce ( see above ) as the adviser to the UK Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 19 | This may explain why two trials by the European Cooperative Crohn 's Disease group , both using a protein hydrolysate diet containing oligopeptides rather than solely free amino acids , have shown that enteral feeding is inferior to drug treatment with corticosteroids and sulphasalazine . |
| 20 | There are three main reasons for this extraordinarily depressing decline : the debt crisis ; the brutal ‘ adjustment ’ policies thrust upon poor countries by the international financial institutions of the rich ; and the appalling decline in the commodity prices on which Third World countries depend . |
| 21 | According to McKibbin , the Labour Party became the vehicle of working-class aspirations by the early 1920s . |
| 22 | Ulster Unionist Jim Kirkpatrick said Mrs Robinson 's visits were deliberately timed to follow visits by the British Royal family , and he claimed the move was part of a ‘ joint sovereignty policy . ’ |
| 23 | In July the Paris Club of industrialized creditor nations agreed to reschedule US$1,600 million of Zambia 's official foreign debt ( which totalled US$7,200 million ) , thus complementing undertakings by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in March to give Zambia 's economic recovery plan financial support [ see p. 37557 ] . |
| 24 | Such colonization occurred on a large scale mainly in western Siberia , in areas nearest to the peasants ' departure point , and in regions largely pacified by the troops by the mid seventeenth century . |
| 25 | Cross to find her fingers transformed into thumbs by the watchful blue eyes , she added a spoonful of olive oil to the boiling water , then threw in the coils of pasta . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 27 | So far , vehement protests by the main western importers , also at government level , have not influenced the Chinese attitude . |
| 28 | It is published in 15 volumes by the Royal National Institute for the Blind . |
| 29 | It is published in 15 volumes by the Royal National Institute for the Blind , . |
| 30 | The changes followed promises by the ruling Christian Democratic Party ( PDCG ) , in its campaign for the November presidential elections , to enact policies that would " benefit the people " . |