Example sentences of "by the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon depended on foreign markets for 70 percent of its sales during the year , and said profits were hurt by the Japanese yen 's strength . |
| 2 | In no way were the reforms ‘ of the Japanese people , for the Japanese people by the Japanese people ’ ( Iida 1970 p.62 ) . |
| 3 | According to one hypothesis ( p. 90–91 ) , the smell of its home stream is memorized by the young salmon , and when it grows up it will migrate back to the river that smells like its home stream . |
| 4 | It becomes more difficult each year to find words that will reflect the invaluable help given to the Association by the young people of the Air Training Corps and the Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets . |
| 5 | Eyre Square , though marred by a mad iron statue put up in honour of Kennedy , was still a fine place , used as a promenade by the young people of Galway . |
| 6 | The study found that 56 per cent of the jobs taken by the young people in fact had no formal educational requirements attached to them . |
| 7 | Rather , the reasons given by the young people followed a consistent pattern of circumstances . |
| 8 | Perlita Harris of Black and In Care , called in by the young people as an advocate , told Community Care : ‘ The borough has treated these vulnerable young people appallingly . |
| 9 | In an expanding business , like television in its earlier days , senior positions are filled by the young people available at the time . |
| 10 | Tanith Blackman , of Ingleton , near Darlington , is a pupil at The Assumption School , Richmond , and the competition , organised by the Young People 's Trust for the Environment , is an award scheme for business and industry involving children of company employees . |
| 11 | The growing number of learned topographies produced by the Georgian gentry 's taste for travel rarely had much praise for the Sussex roads , however beautiful they found its landscape . |
| 12 | The North American mink , he says , has fitted into the niche which would otherwise have been occupied by the European mink had it ever reached Britain . |
| 13 | Britain decided not to screen the series , and was widely condemned by the European media for her typically non-communautaire attitude . |
| 14 | Lactulose , a non-absorbable disaccharide , that is rapidly metabolised on entering the colon by the colonic flora into H 2 , CH 4 , CO 2 , and short chain fatty acids . |
| 15 | These malabsorbed carbohydrates are probably metabolised by the colonic flora to short chain fatty acids and subsequently absorbed by the colon , so that malabsorbed fat could be the main determinant of faecal weight . |
| 16 | Until last year the 70-odd summiteers were matched by the 70 people who had died on its flanks . |
| 17 | If we do not receive your update instructions by the above data it will be assumed that you are no longer seeking acquisitions and the record will be deleted from our database . |
| 18 | The Government must exercise the wisdom of Solomon : although they must not put too much money into that sector , if they put in too little , the owners of care homes will tend to withdraw the little extra facilities that are so enjoyed by the elderly people . |
| 19 | A berry-laden cotoneaster overhung by the elegant Betula pendula |
| 20 | The provisional movement is divided on the issue of capitalism but , for the time at least , has an openly declared policy of achieving an island-wide socialist republic by the combined means of violence and the democratic process . |
| 21 | She shows that to assume that all those aged 16 — 64 are economically active is a gross assumption unsupported by the available data . |
| 22 | The idea that people enter care ‘ wilfully ’ or ‘ inappropriately ’ enter institutional care does not seem to be borne out by the available data . |
| 23 | And we found that all five of these sorts of experiences were expressed much more by the employed people we interviewed than by the unemployed people . |
| 24 | 4 The revamped line-up will initially be topped by the all-new 174bhp 2.8-litre V6 model . |
| 25 | Buildings occupied by the PSP and by the Shiite militia Amal were also repossessed and on July 27 Hezbollah began evacuating its largest base in Lebanon — the Sheikh Abdullah Barracks in Bekaa , 70 km east of Beirut . |
| 26 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 27 | He had discussions with Ghozali , Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi and President Chadli Benjedid , when he was reported by the Iranian media to have urged the administration to attempt to solve " with understanding " its problems with Algerian pan-Islamists . |
| 28 | Until only months before , the Shah had genuinely believed that he was beloved by the Iranian people . |
| 29 | Nominal political authority is held by the unicameral People 's Assembly whose 250 members are elected every four years from a single list of candidates , and which in turn elects the Presidium and the Council of Ministers . |
| 30 | But what now clearly looks to be the gravest threat to Mr Ceausescu 's 24-year period of iron rule remained unreported by the Romanian media . |