Example sentences of "own [coord] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important economic , political and cultural-ideological goods that circulate around the globe tend to be owned and/or controlled by small groups in a relatively small number of countries . |
| 2 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 3 | Most of the traffic on the narrow canals is now of a different kind : growing numbers of pleasure craft owned or hired by those who have discovered the fascination of the inland waterways . |
| 4 | The report , Forests Foregone : The European Community 's Trade in Tropical Timbers and the Destruction of the Forests , reveals that more than a hundred logging and timber processing companies owned or backed by European firms are operating in West and Central Africa . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , Africa 's leading industrialists tend to be the chairmen or directors of companies which are owned or managed by multinational companies . |
| 6 | existence of an in-house language training facility ( wholly owned or managed by outside contractors ) , with established staff of qualified trainers . |
| 7 | The centre of angling activity in Assynt is Inchnadamph Hotel , owned and run by one of the north 's most colourful characters , Willie Morrison : expert fisherman and raconteur , always ready to help , advise , and , when necessary , commiserate with his angling guests . |
| 8 | The New Steine Hotels are privately owned and run by Resident proprietors . |
| 9 | Now Prestel itself is owned and run by British Telecom . |
| 10 | The mill was owned and operated by successive members of the Tayloe family for over a century , until it was eventually sold by Hester Tayloe . |
| 11 | Of these , 54 are company owned and operated by salaried managers , while the other 99 are tied houses owned and operated by tenants . |
| 12 | This is concerned with the manufacture of records , music cassettes and compact discs ( generally known as ‘ product ’ ) in factories owned and operated by individual record companies . |
| 13 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 14 | The 200 companies and 369 local authority undertakings , together with the Central Electricity Board and the nearly 300 power stations owned and operated by these organisations , were to be transferred to a new public body , the British Electricity Authority . |
| 15 | And different objects might be owned and used by different groups of people . |
| 16 | The bridge , owned and protected by English Heritage , will eventually be rebuilt with the original stones , once they 've been recovered from the river bed . |