Example sentences of "backed [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charges were backed up by the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , who said the film ‘ had no feeling of reality ’ . |
| 2 | Next morning at ‘ stand-to' ’ there were the usual reports of wounded which were backed up by the increased activity of the jeeps carrying the casualties to the rear , among them several Airborne troops . |
| 3 | This was backed up by the famous John Peel Festive Fifty which was embarrassingly dominated by the band . |
| 4 | The discipline of the points made constant supervision unnecessary , with the sergeant able to strike randomly at any one of sundry crossroads , an arbitrary arrangement whose authority was backed up by the total recall of the Beat Book record . |
| 5 | Skilled craft workers frequently establish their own methods and pace of work , and this control by the occupational group is usually backed up by the craft union . |
| 6 | Chichester , Burpham ( covering the Arun valley but replaced by Arundel after the Conquest ) , Lewes and Hastings were backed up by the ports at Bosham and Pevensey and the episcopal centre at Selsey . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the level of interest is not backed up by the right level of knowledge either from prospective users or from many of the suppliers . |
| 8 | His allegations against Mr Reid were later backed up by the villa 's then deputy charge nurse , Karen Spinner . |
| 9 | This belief is firmly backed up by the experience of the West German government when in 1965 it attempted to bring criminal charges against nine Chemie Grunenthal executives who were indicted for causing bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug thalidomide . |
| 10 | This view is backed up by the fact that Novell and Banyan ( for whom 100Base-VG support is just a matter of writing new drivers ) are on board . |
| 11 | Their authority is based on the law passed in 1939 that governs Italy 's entire artistic heritage ( legge di tutela No.1089 ) and backed up by the specialist department for underwater archaeology , set up in 1988 within the central office of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali , with the cooperation of the Ministero della Marina Mercantile ( whose regulations are enforced by the harbour offices of Italy 's ports ) . |
| 12 | The two-fold test was not backed up by the authorities . |
| 13 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 14 | This is backed up by the accounts we have of many aspects of the economic structure of the music business then : the drive for profit , the trend towards monopoly and conglomeration , the conservative appeal to the predictable and universally understood ( see for example , Peterson and Berger 1975 : 160–4 ; Laing 1969 : 43–5 ; Sanjek 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Interestingly , this position is backed up by the experience of the Mondragon cooperative enterprises in the Basque region of Spain . |
| 16 | This defeat of the most successful application of Communist party popular front tactics appeared to demonstrate that opposition forces within Latin America ( backed up by the United States ) were too powerful for such a strategy to be ultimately successful . |
| 17 | Firstly , counter-revolutionary forces on the continent , armed and trained ( particularly since the Cuban revolution ) by the pentagon , remain impressively strong , and in Central America are backed up by the threat of military action by the United States itself , as recent events in Nicaragua and El Salvador have reaffirmed . |
| 18 | And Bailey 's comments are backed up by the trainer Derek Meredith who says American jockeys are better , they ride closer to the horse they 're neater and they are stronger too . |
| 19 | That would be backed up by the aforementioned midfield quartet plus a back four of Irwin , McGrath , Moran and Phelan with Bonner in goal . |
| 20 | To an extent , this is backed up by the work of Renberg et al . , |
| 21 | The system is backed up by the Employers ' Liability ( Compulsory Insurance ) Act 1969 which makes it compulsory for employers to have insurance for personal injury to their employees . |
| 22 | In addition to regulating the chief feasts and rituals of the year , the Church canons prohibited Sunday work , in accordance with the Ten Commandments , and these canons were backed up by the dissemination of miracle stories concerning the fates of those who did work on Sundays . |
| 23 | These findings are backed up by the ‘ panel ’ research I mentioned earlier . |
| 24 | Otherwise they have installed non-slip surfaces throughout and they have an exemplary record backed up by the Government . |
| 25 | The results have been backed up by the Medical Research Council and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 26 | Organisations did n't work until backed up by the govt . |