Example sentences of "by the [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | The two days of scheduled meetings were deadlocked , however , by the Japanese insistence that North Korea open its nuclear facilities to international inspection in line with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which North Korea signed in 1985 . |
2 | In this sense , it is unlike Barrie 's Neverland — a place which , however fantastical and fey , is governed by the alternative rules that must underpin any convincing alternative universe . |
3 | In this sense , it is unlike Barrie 's Neverland — a place which , however fantastical and fey , is governed by the alternative rules that must underpin any convincing alternative universe . |
4 | A corrective is needed , however , to the impression that state enterprise management is entirely conditioned by the political forces that impinge upon it . |
5 | Again Wexford was becoming bemused by the colours , by the seductive spectrum that caught and held his eye wherever he looked . |
6 | The symmetry of his body and the smoothness of his movements were thrown out of balance by the slight bulge that heaved one shoulder out of line with its fellow . |
7 | Thus there is every indication that the Cubans , stung by the ignominious discovery that Moscow 's attitude towards dependent Third World allies was not significantly different from Washington 's in the context of superpower relations , managed to extract significant compensation ( both material and symbolic ) for the slight . |
8 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
9 | The Church 's great feasts , organized by the lay brotherhoods that canalized so much popular piety in Castile , were the expression of the corporate existence of a town . |
10 | Reduced to speechlessness by the conflicting emotions that tore at her , she found herself meekly following where her whispering ‘ captor ’ led . |
11 | The ruling by the European Court that the British law does not break EC rules leaves the whole business in chaos . |
12 | In this case it was held by the European Court that where the Community has exercised an express internal power , the corresponding external powers , that is , the power to negotiate an international agreement relating to external aspects of the same matter , fell within Community competence . |
13 | BRITAIN 'S safety arrangements for pesticides is in disarray following a ruling by the European Commission that the voluntary code , which is operated by the industry , is a breach of the EEC 's rules on free trade . |
14 | Their happiness was to be destroyed by the heart-rending realisation that Kimberly was not his child . |
15 | Soviet interest was aroused by the Iranian view that ‘ there will have to be guarantees that neither the Americans nor American surrogates substitute for the departing Russians ’ , that the problem of Afghanistan should not be solved in the East/West context . |
16 | Plainly by the defensive introduction that you have written in the results publication , we are not the only people wondering whether the BAIE is nothing more than a self-serving cabal . |
17 | Win Morgan smiled with a flash of humour that was rare because she was a woman grown old before her time , worn by the constant pain of her bone ache and wearied by the persistent cough that racked her . |
18 | ‘ She told me she and Mellor had long chats about politics , and that it had been suggested by the Prime Minister that at the end of the year Mellor would be made the new Party chairman . ’ |
19 | ‘ It is recognised by the Prime Minister that the recovery will initially be slow and patchy … in time , it should give rise to sustainable economic growth and the creation of new jobs . ’ |
20 | On the other hand I was assured by the Lord Chancellor and by the Prime Minister that the Cabinet would be perfectly happy to work either under me or Alec Home . |
21 | Now cheap low sulphur coal is being imported ( after a statement by the Prime Minister that this option would not be acceptable to the people of Britain ) , gas is being burned , and only 8,000 MW is being fitted with FGD. 14 . |
22 | It was on the fifteenth of April that they waylaid the lord of Parfois on his own ground , in the thick copse of scrub-oak and brushwood threaded by the narrow path that linked the main approach of the castle with the highway to Shrewsbury . |
23 | ‘ Crying In The Chapel ’ was first recorded by C&W singer Darrell Glenn in 1953 and immediately covered by The Orioles , a group headed by the glorious voice that was Sonny Tills . |
24 | Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires . |
25 | Rain continued to sweep into the cottage , driven by the strong wind that screamed around the building . |
26 | I am encouraged by the fact that President Moi has expressed his willingness to move towards multi-party democracy , and by the recent indications that fresh general elections may be held early next year . |
27 | If the Government are confident that quality will not be affected by the financial pressures that they are imposing on higher education to cut the inward resource year after year , the answer is to ensure that the inspectorate for higher education is wholly independent of the funding system and solely concerned with the issue of quality . |
28 | It has been suggested that the growth of environmentalism was stimulated by the anti-materialistic philosophy that found its expression in neo-Lamarckism . |
29 | Today 's Stagisti , guided by the mechanical tragedies that befell their hapless predecessors , know that preventive maintenance is the key to dependability . |
30 | Of course I take account of feeling in the area ; but , as I said earlier , I also take account of the way in which feeling has been influenced by the misleading statements that have been put about over recent months . |