Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems more like an eroticism created by rather than repressed by the social bond . |
| 2 | These pricing formulas will ensure that prices continue to rise for several years : in Northumbria , for example , prices could more than double by the mid-1990s . |
| 3 | The cash , provided interest-free by the Government-run Levy Board , has helped to fund urgent fire and safety improvements at the track . |
| 4 | When President Carter called him soon after it , the Shah spoke as if shell-shocked by the diabolical conspiracy against him . |
| 5 | If documentation was incomplete , or if inspection by monitoring physicians showed inconsistencies , the treating physician was contacted at once by telephone ( and if necessary by the local medical supervisor ) to verify any discrepant or missing data . |
| 6 | Chesney Wold , as an older house , is close to the village church ; but this proximity to one 's neighbours came to be regarded as undesirable by the fashionable in the eighteenth century and Regency , due largely to the fashion for ‘ emparkment ’ which will be discussed in the next chapter . |
| 7 | It would not be lawful for a grant maintained school to reject children with special needs who were otherwise eligible for admission but it is impossible to legislate against the temptation to work towards greater academic activity or to concentrate on subjects which are regarded as prestigious by the potential client group . |
| 8 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 9 | The present [ Thatcher ] government is committed to the policy that housing should be provided as far as possible by the unregulated private market , according to the economic laws of supply and demand which require that owners have maximum control over private property backed ultimately by unhampered exclusive right . |
| 10 | 3.05:THE lightly-raced HIGHLAND DRESS made an impressive belated debut at Newbury last month , and was not disgraced when unsuited by the slow gallop at Newmarket eight days ago . |
| 11 | The first of such Councils to be recognized as ecumenical by the Western Church took place in the Lateran basilica , Rome , in 1123 . |
| 12 | The main difference was that restitution , often viewed as appropriate by the Sinhalese , was not possible through the colonial court system . |
| 13 | Once they have been picked out from an account as recognized as distinct by the participating informants , other material can be sorted into categories with respect to them . |
| 14 | ‘ Dangerous goods ’ include those goods specified as dangerous by the British Railways Board ( BRB ) classification and goods which , although not included in this classification , ‘ are of a similar kind ’ . |
| 15 | Rushdie 's book The Satanic Verses had been widely condemned as blasphemous by the Moslem community . |
| 16 | When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ? |
| 17 | But this evidence was generally regarded as inconclusive by the scientific world . |
| 18 | Attacked as irresponsible by the conservative opposition but welcomed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions which pledged to contain wage pressure , the programme marked a return towards the ALP 's traditional Keynesianism after years of economic liberalization and rationalization begun in 1983 when Keating was Treasurer under Hawke . |
| 19 | Use of temporary accommodation : At the end of June 1992 , there were 62,780 households living in temporary accommodation ( these are households that have been accepted as homeless by the local authority , but are not able to be housed in permanent accommodation ) . |
| 20 | This decision , and its reasoning , is still being relied on in the growing number of tax-diversion cases that are currently coming before the inferior courts in England and Scotland , and it has most recently been affirmed as decisive by the High Court once more , in Boulton v. |
| 21 | This was especially so in our case because the field-worker was a female within a masculine occupational culture and quickly identified as Catholic by the usual means through which people in Northern Ireland ‘ tell ’ identity ( Burton 1979 ) . |
| 22 | A body of writings accepted as genuine ; those books of the Bible accepted as genuine by the Christian church . |
| 23 | The Mann-Whitney U test was used for pairwise comparisons where the influence of independent variables was identified as significant by the multivariate analysis . |
| 24 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 25 | The final major aspect of the new constitutional settlement seen as desirable by the constitutional authorities embodies a concern to revive parliamentary government and the power of an independent House of Commons unchecked by outside interest and direct democratic pressures . |