Example sentences of "[vb pp] to by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to this threat , Irokawa argues , the ruling classes moved rapidly to reinforce the conventional norms still adhered to by the vast majority of the people , but in a way which removed any spontaneous content and value . |
| 2 | It gave the room an artificially cosy feel , which was added to by the open fireplace and the array of expensive leather furniture that dotted the floor , spread out on thick carpet as dark as wet concrete . |
| 3 | The reality of this picture of vibrant , ‘ grass roots ’ capitalist development in the Third World is attested to by the abundant evidence of rapidly rising commercialisation and the resulting social differentiation ( especially in the rural areas of Asia and Africa ) , coupled with the relative expansion of wage-labour at the expense of family and self-employment , including feudal-type tenurial relationships . |
| 4 | This tends to be the concern in Great Britain , as attested to by the public response to the Policy Studies Institute study of the Metropolitan Police ( Policy Studies Institute 1983a , b ; for a similar and earlier example , see Holdaway 1977 ) . |
| 5 | You 're not being talked to by the mainstream now , but by us who you grew up with . |
| 6 | Large numbers of us in this country are getting fed up of being talked down to and dictated to by the existing planning , architectural and development establishment . |
| 7 | I was also spoken to by the Chief Whip who reiterated that the majority of the party were for Alec . |
| 8 | The existence in the area of a cave complex which functioned as a rebel base is referred to by the First Century AD Jewish historian , Flavius Josephus . |
| 9 | Thus the Communists and the Nazis had a common interest in the destruction of the Social Democrats and this fact was frequently referred to by the Labour Party and the TUC in the early 1930s as a reason for opposing both movements with equal vigour . |
| 10 | Rommetveit argues that the sentence is not necessarily self-contradictory even if the individual referred to by the two nominal expressions is the same individual . |
| 11 | Its truth-value does not depend on whether there actually occurred the happy event referred to by the second referring expression . |
| 12 | The evidence is overwhelming ; we must address crime prevention far more successfully if we are to achieve the reductions referred to by the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West . |
| 13 | Russian similarly uses a form of the pronominal adjectives svoj ( masculine ) , svoja ( feminine ) , svojo ( neuter ) , and svoi ( plural ) to refer to a participant already referred to in the same clause , but in Russian this is not restricted to third-person forms ; the participant referred to by the pronominal adjective may be first , second , or third person . |
| 14 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 15 | The Greek draca ( sharp vision ) is a characteristic referred to by the Greek epic poet Hesiod ( eighth century BC ) in The Shield of Hercules : |
| 16 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 17 | The next terrane to arrive , some 90 million years ago , was a mish-mash of rocks referred to by the Indian name ‘ Yolla Bolly ’ , a collection of coarse grained sandstone rock found in various parts of Northern and central California . |
| 18 | However , Washington has been rocked by the further revelation that the alleged killer is Dr Ottokar Proctor , the respected economist and adviser to President North , the man often referred to by the electronic media as ‘ the architect of the Big Bonus . ’ |
| 19 | Some languages quite openly exploit this belief : Janssen-Jurreit notes that in Konkani , a language of south India , there is a distinction between married women ( who are referred to by the feminine form ) and young or widowed women ( who get the neuter to mark their lesser status ) . |
| 20 | When that is achieved , the problems referred to by the Red Cross and the Quakers report will be substantially minimised . |
| 21 | The likes of Gordon Brown , Tony Blair , John Smith and Martin O'Neill have made good impressions , though Neil Kinnock , who got on famously badly with Ronald Reagan but adequately with Mr Bush , is still often referred to by the few Americans who pay any attention to British politics as ‘ the Welsh windbag ’ . |
| 22 | With regard to the remit of the STUCC , which was referred to by the Hon. |
| 23 | The maritime safety committee of the International Maritime Organisation has agreed that the higher standards referred to by the hon. Gentleman should be phased in , starting in October 1994 . |
| 24 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 25 | Payment of that sum and other monies from the Deanses to the club was referred to by the outgoing financial director , Clive Scott . |
| 26 | Thus far it can be argued that , if and in so far as the objection to the validity of a pretended Act of Parliament is purely procedural , there is no objection to any court ( and not merely the House of Lords ) making such minimal inquiries as are consistent with Parliamentary privilege in order to ensure that the instrument in question was consented to by the two Houses and did receive the Royal Assent . |
| 27 | The question principally debated was whether the duty had been validly imposed by the Sovereign though not consented to by the British Parliament or the local Assembly , and this question was answered in the negative . |
| 28 | Hall also describes the conservatism of collectors in American ( for example , the enthusiasm for late Rembrandt before World War I ) which was catered to by the leading dealers , many of whom , including Colnaghi 's , began to lag behind the more advanced taste for the Baroque that began to be expressed by museum curators . |