Example sentences of "by [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sauti ya TANU came into prominence in 1958 after its May 27th issue contained allegations by Nyerere that two district commissioners had used illegal methods against the party . |
| 2 | Second , elite theory community power studies argue by contrast that national elites do not simply float in a disconnected way above the vast mass of secondary issues which compose the domestic politics of liberal democracies . |
| 3 | This matter of cellulose breakdown is of vital importance to the whole question of the nutrition of the living cells , for it has been shown by experiment that raw cellulose can be injurious to plants as it is indigestible to animals , and in both the soil and the digestive tract of herbivora , cellulose decomposition is largely performed by fungi . |
| 4 | But the City , already nervous about the hefty price Thorn paid for Virgin just before the industry down turn — and by talk that 160 people have quit Virgin since the sale — marked Thorn 's shares another 9p lower to 808p . |
| 5 | Convinced by fear that another attempt to manipulate the rigid ropes and frozen krabs at my waist would result in permanent loss of consciousness , I let Roger take over , clipping me into the belay while I lowered by head against the ice , shivering violently , numb fingers screaming with the return of feeling , struggling rationally to convince my swimming brain that this was not the final descent into hypothermic oblivion . |
| 6 | Wrangles with the Comintern continued , despite the growing realization by Communists that genuine Fascism had rendered the concept of " Social Fascism " out of date . |
| 7 | As for preventing protein synthesis , it was discovered almost by accident that many antibiotics — which of course work by preventing bacteria from growing and multiplying — achieve this goal by preventing bacterial protein or RNA synthesis . |
| 8 | Delegates voted by a large majority for the immediate introduction of a multiparty system , emphatically rejecting a proposal by Bongo that democratic pluralism be introduced over a three- to five-year period ; delegates also rejected Bongo 's proposal for a new single party , the Gabonese Social Democratic Rally ( RSDG ) [ ibid. ] , encompassing various political groupings , which was to have replaced the Gabonese Democratic Party ( PDG ) , the sole legal party since 1968 . |
| 9 | Jaguar was inspired by stories that General Motors was preparing to bid . |
| 10 | Other reports indicated that the proposed law had been prompted by fears that recent events in Algeria would encourage Islamist parties , who won one-third of the seats in parliamentary elections held in November 1989 [ see pp. 37052-53 ] , to mount an extra-parliamentary challenge . |
| 11 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 12 | However , in many cases , that intention will be established by evidence that sexual intercourse in fact took place . |
| 13 | This is further supported by evidence that medical treatment works only temporarily , with the disease recurring once stimulation by ovarian steroids returns . |
| 14 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 15 | Again , the print and production workers who used union power to force overmanning and inflated salaries upon Fleet Street managers in the 1960s and 1970s , put priority on conditions of work and were not dissuaded by arguments that such tactics risked reducing the range of titles and thus of voices heard in the national press . |
| 16 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 17 | She knew by instinct that healing change can never be imposed on people from outside . |
| 18 | Claims by McEwan that undue weight is being placed on the episode strike one as disingenuous . |
| 19 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 20 | It is now increasingly accepted by scientists that moderate drinking offers protection against heart disease . |
| 21 | But there are limits , and we are told by scientists that those limits are being reached in our own time . |
| 22 | Mr Major led a concerted attempt to win back Liberal Democrat waverers by warning that proportional representation — a key Liberal Democrat demand for their support in a hung parliament — would lead to the ‘ nightmare of perpetually weak Government ’ . |
| 23 | Officials said that the decision was in part motivated by concern that punishing Israel would undermine Israel 's position at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference , and aggravate further US-Israeli relations . |
| 24 | If something has been left for construction of a building for a town , the late emperor Marcus and Lucius Verus replied to Procula by rescript that each heir was liable for the whole . |
| 25 | The rescript is of great utility in ensuring that the honour of a happily concluded marriage and indeed the faith of common children should not deceive a father who had thought better of the mother : therefore the emperor , most provident and most devoted to the cause of law , when he observed that the words of a trust were lacking , ruled by rescript that this expression should be treated as a trust . |
| 26 | It is often not understood by outsiders that certain types of music immediately suggest to dancers , teachers and choreographers particular kinds of steps . |
| 27 | Yesterday the yen reached 116.78 to the dollar in Tokyo , fuelled by expectation that this weekend 's meeting of G-7 finance ministers will agree to a strengthened yen to reduce Japan 's high trade surpluses . |
| 28 | Some researchers have disputed the contention by others that maternal age itself is responsible through its biologic effects for differential conditions of child health and mortality . |
| 29 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 30 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |