Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the mid-1950s the Cold War had taken on an inexorable logic in Europe , which made divisions hard to break down . |
| 2 | By the mid-1960s the long campaign for ending capital punishment was nearing a climax . |
| 3 | By the mid-1960s the Chinese bureaucracy had become conservative and concerned with the politics of meritocracy and with preserving inequalities . |
| 4 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 5 | Any frequency distribution such as that schematically shown in Figure 1.2 can be described by the moments the first four of which are commonly used in statistics . |
| 6 | The text of the cable was : Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game , making protection of the body by the batsmen the main consideration . |
| 7 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 8 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 9 | For the next eighteen months Amery toured prisoner-of-war camps , seeking to recruit a Legion of St George — unromantically renamed by the Germans the British Free Corps — to fight alongside the Germans against the Russians and save Europe from Bolshevism . |
| 10 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 11 | As they are beaten by the waves the exposed limestone skeletons are broken up , and the sand thus formed smothers yet more areas of reef . |
| 12 | Despite a last minute clear up by the travellers the common was still strewn with waste — the leftovers of a twenty thousand strong party . |
| 13 | Throughout the war theatre , the centre that suffered the most was probably Kuwait City , both from being captured in August 1990 and retaken by the Allies the following February and from the Iraqi presence in between . |
| 14 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |