Example sentences of "bear by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brunt of the fighting was borne by the 3rd Battalion , who suffered 70% casualties during eleven assaults in as many days . |
| 2 | A party 's obligations may also be defined by a term providing that obligations which would otherwise fall on the contractor shall be borne by the other party to the contract . |
| 3 | The bill for the retired population would be borne by the working population , but the ratio of contributors to pensioners would slowly worsen so that by 2025 there would be only 1.8 contributors for each pensioner . |
| 4 | Certain States in fact claim reimbursement of high fees and daily allowances and travel costs of witnesses who have to travel long distances , although these costs should normally be borne by the requested State , unless Article 26 can be invoked . |
| 5 | In general , the cost of the action in the foreign country will be borne by the Legal Aid Scheme in that country , but the position of the charges of the solicitor in Scotland seems to vary and should be ascertained from the Legal Aid authorities in the country concerned . |
| 6 | Again the interests supporting the mining are the state and foreign mining companies who would reap all the benefits from the ‘ development ’ , while all the costs of the mining are to be borne by the local community . |
| 7 | They also show that several very different types of scale could be borne by the same animal , including some complex scales immediately surrounding the gill openings . |
| 8 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 9 | It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent . |
| 10 | From January 1990 , the entire cost of a negligence action will be borne by the National Health Service . |
| 11 | He was born by the express agency of the Holy Spirit : we are not . |