Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Alliance is seriously handicapped by the electoral system and it can not afford any further drain of support caused by separate policies : it is imperative that policy shall be decided at a single gathering .
2 He reminded everyone that good often comes out of change dictated by environmental considerations , for example his own company became involved in titanium dioxide extraction when looking for an alternative to white lead .
3 This chapter examines the way that change has taken place , in particular in relation to social structure in terms of changing social relations of production , and the contribution to this process of change made by different social groups , such as political elites and the peasantry .
4 A further level of protection sought by some vendors is an undertaking by the purchaser not to solicit the vendor 's employees if the transaction fails .
5 Management thus had to respond to the rising expectations and social aspirations of a higher paid and better educated workforce , and felt obliged also to reduce the rising costs of apathy induced by meaningless work .
6 New educational policies take their justification from the experiences of racism suffered by black citizens .
7 Consequently such apparently irrational attribution of responsibility exhibited by criminal law strengthens rather than weakens the claim that criminal law may be understood as positive morality .
8 ( c ) The sense of responsibility held by most sub-contractors is such that they will be concerned to retain their reputation as tradesmen , particularly bearing in mind the need for continuity of employment .
9 In the Hemingway version , these frames are separated into two blocks which , if we leave aside the opening sentence , comprise five sentences of description followed by five sentences of action .
10 Erm that offic regarding productivity from economic impact of land reform , official statistics claimed that between nineteen forty nine to fifty four gross output value of agriculture increased by fifty eight percent .
11 The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) .
12 It should be noted that notwithstanding any risk allocations that may ( or may not ) be agreed in a separate Deed of Contribution , the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 provides that any person liable in respect of damage suffered by another person may recover contributions from all the persons liable in respect of the same damage ( whether jointly with him or otherwise ) .
13 Reports continued about the scale of damage inflicted by allied bombing , and the resulting danger of epidemics .
14 Before the plaintiff can suffer the type of damage caused by passing-off , he must have a reputation associated with goodwill .
15 The tell-tale signs of erosion here inside the cylinder head , plus obvious coking up all evidence of damage caused by unleaded petrol , used by unsuitable cars .
16 The great Continental stations , Paris , Stuttgart , Vienna , Budapest , Bucharest , Constantinople , have been the beginning and ending and en route stopping-places in the wealth of literature inspired by that acme of railway luxury , the Orient Express , the train on which James Bond once shot a man for ordering red wine with his fish .
17 One fairly obvious analogy is the type of case considered by this court in In re Chase ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 1 N.Z.L.R. 345 where , following in particular the decision of the Privy Council in Tampion v. Anderson [ 1973 ] 3 A.L.R. 414 , the view was taken that an order dismissing an action on the ground that there was no reasonable cause of action was an interlocutory judgment and that therefore no appeal lay as of right .
18 ‘ But of course multiplying by two is a lot easier than some of the bigger numbers .
19 Not of course created by any one of you .
20 The transition to full ecclesiastical patronage — a transition of course marked by many intermediate and overlapping stages — was a transition to those forms of professionalism , involving mobility and availability for hire , which are characteristic of the second main form of patronage .
21 The priority accorded to ‘ the right ’ by liberalism is reflected in the considerable freedom of contract permitted by Western legal systems .
22 It was submitted on behalf of Mr Street that the court can not in these circumstances decide that the agreement created a tenancy without interfering with the freedom of contract enjoyed by both parties .
23 The summary table in this case simply indicates the considerable range of difficulty covered by most types of task .
24 Indigenous working-class cultures of racism have thus been internally fragmented by strong sexual and generational divisions , as well as being externally mirrored in the forms of resistance mobilized by immigrant communities against them .
25 Similarly , crop plants and microorganisms with a high degree of resistance to damage by some herbicides are under investigation to determine the genetic nature of the resistance .
26 However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment .
27 The particular feeling of revulsion held by certain members of the aristocracy against poor and lowly corpse-dressers gazing on their naked cadavers is more associated with embalming than shrouding .
28 24 hours later extracts were prepared and the acetylated forms of chloramphenicol separated by thin layer chromatography .
29 Since , however , the types of response given by these enquirers did not differ significantly from applicants , we have grouped them with the applicants for the purpose of the analysis .
30 The Lorenz curve ( based on information on incomes ranked in ascending order of size ) shows the proportion of income held by each percentage or proportion of the population .
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