Example sentences of "by [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when mortgage debt is added to all other consumer debt , to give a total of £50,000 to £55,000 million outstanding in 1978 , this was comfortably topped by private individuals ' deposits with banks and building societies alone , which amounted then to some £60,000 million . |
| 2 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 3 | The Legal Aid Board , which administers legal aid , proposes to stop paying for work carried out by unaccredited solicitors ' representatives after 1st October 1994 . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the tourist industry in the island as a whole was affected adversely by British Airways ' decision to stop the London-Dublin link ? |
| 5 | These difficulties are compounded by the fact that industrialisation policies have their own dynamic in each sector and by foreign lenders ' intervention in domestic policy . |
| 6 | Some banks were encouraged by industrialised countries ' governments to provide competitive financial packages to overseas buyers in order to win export contracts for their depressed manufacturing industries . |
| 7 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 8 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 9 | If you can be as … affected as you seem to have been by answering journalists ' questions , perhaps I 'd be wiser to wait for publication of results , like everyone else . |
| 10 | In an arena now entirely stocked by affectless Goldsmiths ' artefacts , Strains of War is weird enough to require explanation . |
| 11 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 12 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |
| 13 | By probing companies ' PAYE and Schedule E tax compliance , the Inland Revenue raked in an extra £230 million last year . |
| 14 | This offset the tendency towards stagnation generated by increased workers ' savings . |
| 15 | What is more , current social work and health policy seeks to move away from institutionalized forms of care provided by elderly persons ' homes and hospitals , concentrating instead on maintaining ageing people within their own homes . |
| 16 | Any change would , however , be resisted by heavyweight landlords , whose valuations are enhanced by overseas investors ' predilection for a secure purchase . |
| 17 | Produced by Adrian Sherwood and remixed by Happy Mondays ' production team of Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , vocals on the single are provided by Comic Strip performer Alan Pelay . |
| 18 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 19 | In the mid-1980s the government tried , disastrously , to deal with the labour shortage by increasing employers ' contributions to the Central Provident Fund ( the compulsory government-run pension scheme ) . |
| 20 | The development of interest rate and currency swaps has offered a further fillip to the eurobond market , by increasing borrowers ' flexibility in issuance , as well as enabling them to profit from comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets ( see Hammond , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Though there are many disadvantages as well as advantages in the use of microcomputers for information retrieval , the major advantage is that computerized information retrieval can provide a strong link between the school library and the curriculum by increasing pupils ' exposure to new technologies as both a learning and retrieval tool , regardless of subject area , and increase the use of resources in the school . |
| 22 | Hence , the traditional indifference ( now obscured by educational theorists ' cant ) to the need to give children the uniquely essential means for social liberation : an ability to speak and write their own language correctly . |
| 23 | The most likely candidates are local firm MSP Sp zoo , and DHI , which is majority owned by Munich-based Computer 2000 GmBH — although this was not confirmed by American Technologies ' executive vice-president Alex Barkaloff . |
| 24 | Assessments for benefits and equipment , still widely delegated to doctors , are now matched by other professionals ' assessment procedures , for example when housing adaptations are required . |
| 25 | Cameron , needing nothing , sat around the house , surrounded by other peoples ' books and music and art . |
| 26 | Beyond that , the ITA was influenced by the existing configuration of franchise holders , by new applicants ' promises and broadcasting talent , by their performance at interview and the extent to which they met the conditions of regionalism and financial soundness . |
| 27 | Darwin 's theory played a major catalytic role in converting the world to evolutionism , but historians have begun to realize that our conventional image of the ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ is an oversimplification inspired by modern biologists ' enthusiasm for the concept of natural selection . |
| 28 | Instead , their own difficult first album is one extra twist of its theme , three songs and a few warped guitars overdubs short of a classic which by local debutants ' terms is almost an unprecedented if also an easy success . |