Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The short term benefit of certainty in household budgeting can be more than offset by a nasty shock when the rate is revised , ’ said the Abbey , which adds that its research reveals no demand for budget schemes . |
| 32 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 33 | There will be increased printing costs and greater use of school facilities ; but these burdens will be more than offset by the extra revenue generated by parent support . |
| 34 | As in the full employment models considered earlier , the direct impact may be more than offset by the indirect , general equilibrium , effects for example , if the demand response is biased towards capital-intensive industries . |
| 35 | True , it is the people at the bottom of the ladder and below it who benefit from Mr Smith 's thin tax cuts but £100 a year helps little — and the saving would be more than eliminated by an upward move in mortgage rates . |
| 36 | The OECD however suggested that inflation and interest rates might be higher than predicted by the Italian government and forecast that the 1991 deficit would be nearer 9.5 per cent of GDP than 9.3 per cent . |
| 37 | The 76-year-old was said to be shocked and upset by the incident . |
| 38 | Some of the bed spaces will be leased , but the majority will be purpose-built and owned by the university . |
| 39 | Almost every finding made by the tribunal would be reassessed in the superior courts and be binding if right , but would not be binding if judged by the superior court to be wrong . |
| 40 | The Defendants had to prove these communications were not records because if they were deemed records then the records management responsibility clearly stated each agency ‘ maintain an active , continuing programme for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency ‘ with ‘ safeguards against the removal or loss of records he ( the agency head ) determines to be necessary and required by the Archivist . ’ |
| 41 | I had the feeling that she might be diplomatic when confronted by the God-Kings luxurious life-style . |
| 42 | This will be a price worth paying only if the vital expressive quality of the work is sustained and enhanced ; that is to say , whether the carer be man or woman , the tasks to be performed involve a relationship with the old person and one in which the essential core of the response should be benign and experienced by the old person as loving . |
| 43 | The first Labour government of 1924 had been ineffective and supported by the Liberals . |
| 44 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 45 | This confirmed that the relaxations were neurogenic and mediated by a NANC neurotransmitter . |
| 46 | They were delighted and impressed by the Medau demonstration , which inspired a visit to the Medau Summer School held at Cromer from which they returned full of praise for those bodies in blue tunics ! |
| 47 | Wilson claimed before the Royal Commission In 1892 that both unions were bogus and financed by the Shipping Federation , which they denied . |
| 48 | As Robert Walpole explained to his brother : " Their cry and complaint was of being underworked and starved by the Irish . " |
| 49 | Gregory himself did not doubt the efficacy of the saint , but clearly Leudast and his supporters were less than impressed by the bishop 's special relationship with his supernatural patron . |
| 50 | The increased UK branch losses were more than offset by a massive recovery in the United States , where profits at NatWest Bancorp soared to £109 million , after losses of £182 million the previous year . |
| 51 | However , these were more than offset by the migration of 348,000 people to the area . |
| 52 | Naturally , such visits can allow only the most superficial understanding of prison life , any conversations with prisoners and warders being cursory and inhibited by the presence of a senior officer . |
| 53 | Some were shocked and disturbed by the dawn raid . |
| 54 | Consequently , federalists were shocked and disheartened by the 1945 British general election , which removed Churchill and his Conservatives from power . |
| 55 | For , if ( x 1 , … , x n ) were optimal and dominated by the feasible ( in VMP ) solution ( x 1 , … , x n ) , then so that ( x 1 , … , x n ) is also feasible in LP* ( x 1 , … , x n ) . |
| 56 | The women were uninjured but shocked by the incident . |
| 57 | We showed that the virus particles that display antibody fragments could also encapsidate the genes of a marker ( neo ) , and were infectious as shown by the transfer of G418 antibiotic resistance to murine cells from viral particles immobilised on NIP-BSA coated plates . |
| 58 | Press reports varied as to whether the new committees were Fatah-inspired or organized by the PFLP and DFLP , but it appeared that they would be a forum for the local response to the ongoing peace process . |
| 59 | Any natural selection involves differential reproductive success that is nonfortuitous because determined by the way variant organisms are interacting with an environment that is causally sensitive to those particular physical differences in the organisms . |
| 60 | This first set of questions is interrelated and confused by the fact that both the courts and Parliament have , at times , claimed exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a particular privilege exists , and the criteria which they have applied in making this determination have differed . |