Example sentences of "[det] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most graphic statement of the dual role , though some would call it an overstatement ( e.g. Pearce , 1982 ) , is that given by the National Association of Head Teachers ( NAHT ) in response to a document on the role of the advisory service issued by the Society of Education Officers and the National Association of Inspectors and Educational Advisers : |
| 2 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 3 | The most frequently quoted definition of non-natural user is that given by the Judicial Committee in Rickards v. Lothian , ‘ It must be some special use bringing with it increased danger to others and must not merely be the ordinary use of the land or such a use as is proper for the general benefit of the community . ’ |
| 4 | The store will be quite separate from that planned by the Central Electricity Generating Board to house spent nuclear fuel before it is reprocessed . |
| 5 | After participation in the CU , and the adoption by the CU of CET against non-members equal to that applied by the domestic economy before the union , then the commodity will be imported from the union partner . |
| 6 | Indeed , this person 's role would not have been dissimilar to that undertaken by the present-day funeral director . |
| 7 | Personally I am convinced that unless initiatives like that undertaken by the Urban Studies Centre ( see page 95 ) are adopted , we will continue to train teachers who , though they have impeccable paper qualifications , lack the real life experience which will give credibility to the certificates , degrees and diplomas they have so earnestly won . |
| 8 | Player A's expected payoff in each period will therefore tend to a value which is less than that received by the dominant strategy type for any positive rate of discount . |
| 9 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 10 | But I doubt very much whether there are any claims now outstanding which are not statute-barred , in respect of children stillborn before 22 July 1976 or any children born before that date , who are locked in litigation with their mothers over whether the mother tasted alcohol or followed a diet other than that recommended by the current phase of medical opinion during pregnancy . |
| 11 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 12 | By the early twentieth century , paleontologists were promoting a coherent model of evolution that differed significantly from that proposed by the early Darwinians . |
| 13 | The first of these men was Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , founder of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) , who initially established contact with the Comintern and whose model was in fact not dissimilar to that proposed by the Soviet theorists , although he differed greatly on questions of strategy and tactics . |
| 14 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 15 | They would stress the doctrinal fluidity within some , if not all , Protestant movements and the absence of a mechanism of censorship as centralized or as effective as that supervised by the Holy Office in Rome . |
| 16 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |
| 17 | It was widely believed in the western world that north Korea was simply created by the Soviet Union in a manner similar to that used by the Soviet Union in eastern Europe . |
| 18 | Terminology as far as possible conforms to that used by the Electronic Engineering Association and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in their software standards publications . |
| 19 | Since the enzyme can function as a modification methylase at 30°C in vivo it must be assumed that this accomplished by the low level of in vitro activity that is observed . |
| 20 | In some cases this happened by the direct emigration of European ideas and institutions . |
| 21 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 22 | In our case this provided by the denotational semantics for occam reported in [ R ] . |
| 23 | The current culture at British Rail seems to be — and I have heard this said by the chief executive — that freight is not time-sensitive . |
| 24 | The French Corps des Galères was suppressed in 1748 ; and by the time of the French Revolution , except for the few maintained by the Spanish fleet and one or two in the navies of the small Italian States , galleys had disappeared from the sea which they had so long dominated . |
| 25 | One man dug using full beam while another stood by the internal telephone system with a dimmed light . |
| 26 | This stood by the important road between Vyšehrad and the Vltava fords . |
| 27 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
| 28 | ‘ The audit function should be carried out by the Court of Auditors in a similar way to that adopted by the principal auditor of a multinational group of companies which has a number of foreign subsidiary companies . |
| 29 | This result could be achieved through the application of similar reasoning to that adopted by the Privy council in NZ Shipping Co Ltd v AM Satterthwaite Co Ltd [ 1975 ] AC 154 . |
| 30 | ‘ a member of a college puts himself voluntarily under a peculiar system of law , and assents to being bound by it , and can not thereafter complain that such system is not in accordance with that adopted by the common law . |