Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer of further help was widely interpreted as attempt to improve the chances of the treaty being ratified by the requisite two-thirds majority of the 23-member Philippine Senate . |
| 2 | On April 30 the Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers held talks in Seoul at which it was agreed to relax restrictions currently applied to the 680,000 Koreans resident in Japan , many of whom were descendants of the 2,500,000 Koreans transported by the Japanese colonial administration for use as forced labour . |
| 3 | July was a month of hectic diplomatic activity following the partial peace agreement reached by the warring Cambodian factions in Pattaya , Thailand , in late June [ see p. 38293 ] . |
| 4 | However , Macedonia 's internal divisions were highlighted by a referendum held by the ethnic Albanian minority in Macedonia on Jan. 11-12 , in which 99.9 per cent voted for territorial and political autonomy . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the earlier argument about reification , is it legitimate to assume that the development of the whole school will be achieved by the collective professional development of its teachers ? |
| 6 | The adjusting amount to be an amount equal to the difference between the net assets as disclosed by the consolidated audited accounts for the period from [ ] to completion ( ‘ Completion Accounts ’ ) but after : |
| 7 | This may be explained by the selective cholinomimetic action of cisapride on the smooth muscle in the mid and distal oesophagus whereas the striated muscle of the proximal oesophagus has not been affected . |
| 8 | Thus self-report data indicate that serious crimes are disproportionately committed by the young uneducated males amongst whom the unemployed and ethnically oppressed are over-represented , but the contribution they make is less than the official data implies . |
| 9 | In the years 1815–27 , when he was hated by the young Romantic poets for his apostasy , it is only fair to point out that many quite reasonable people were at panic stations because of incipient popular unrest . |
| 10 | Gamsakhurdia was elected by the Georgian Supreme Soviet on April 14 to the new post of executive President of Georgia ( his previous title had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet ) . |
| 11 | The catalyst for the Democrat civil rights bill was the decision in 1989-90 by the newly-created conservative majority on the Supreme Court to reverse five key rulings , each of which had assisted minorities to press employment discrimination law suits . |
| 12 | Such publications must be treated critically ; Namier provided a good example of the deflation of a quasi-official authoritativeness in his review of the Survey of International Affairs , 1938 published by the authoritative Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) . |
| 13 | Output expectations for the next four months are the highest recorded by the authoritative monthly survey since May last year . |
| 14 | Church sources in Leipzig were delighted by the extraordinary joint declaration of three local party secretaries and the city 's director of music , Kurt Masur . |
| 15 | The interaction comes about through the polarization of the electron cloud of the molecule by the oscillating electric vector of the incident quantum ( Fig. 5.5 ) . |
| 16 | Ethiopia , whose independence was recognized by the European colonial powers in 1896 , was dominated for more than 50 years ( apart from the period of the Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941 ) by Haile Selassie , who was regent , then King and eventually Emperor until his deposition in 1974 . |
| 17 | In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) . |
| 18 | I have been lucky to secure European Community funding to attend a conference on the proposed EC Coastal Directive , being run by the European Environmental Bureau in Copenhagen over the 1st and 2nd of May . |
| 19 | Instead , they recommend a steady , annual expansion of the money supply at a constant rate , determined by the predictable steady growth in the velocity of circulation and the predicted growth in the country 's potential output . |
| 20 | Apart from remorseless administrative efforts by the successive Permanent Under-Secretaries of the Ministry of Defence to reduce overheads so that more resources could be freed for re-equipment programmes , two well-trodden paths off the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ have been thoroughly explored : partnership with the US , Canada , Australia and New Zealand ( the ABCA countries ) ; and collaboration with our Western European allies . |
| 21 | Bakhtin continually recognizes that the parodic force of popular-festive forms could not survive unqualified after the force of the sacred word which they parodied had itself been qualified by the dawning administrative rationality of the Renaissance : the dawning of exactly that rationality which provides the pre-history of Adorno and Horkheimer 's critique . |
| 22 | Further criticism of the USA in this respect was made ( i ) by the EC in particular as well as by the above three countries at a meeting on July 3 of the GATT Surveillance Body , a constituent body of the TNC ( see above ) ; and ( ii ) by the 26 member countries of the Latin American Economic System ( SELA ) on Aug. 3 at a ministerial meeting in Cartagena ( Colombia ) for having identified six countries ( Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela ) as not providing adequate protection for IPRs . |
| 23 | Fearfrost was forged by the ancient khan-queen Miska of the Gospodars in the ancient days when the tribes of Kislev first journeyed to the west . |
| 24 | The suspicions of establishment politicians were fuelled by the renewed nonconformist assault on the Liberal Party in the 1880s . |
| 25 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 26 | Also , whilst trade union leaders might want or need laws to strengthen procedures or ‘ conciliation ’ , this might well rebound , since the management side of the dispute supported by the misnamed National Association for Freedom ( NAF ) , will also be pressing for laws — but to curtail workers ' rights . |
| 27 | The destructive action of beetles on timber is rarely as serious as fungal attack because an infected section is only weakened by the combined cross-sectional area of the tunnels it contains — the strength of the surrounding wood remains unimpaired . |
| 28 | The author knows ( even if Akhsharumov has to remind him ) that the natural man in his hero has been laid low by the combined psychic onset of crime and punishment . |
| 29 | Biologically , the jury is still out , and my blanketweed crop on the pond is as yet undismayed by the combined nitrate-removing qualities of Siporax and the small integral magnet within the entry pipework of the NBS . |
| 30 | Failure to exchange an occluded stent leaves the patient at risk of infection and often requires the replacement of the stent by the combined radiological-endoscopic procedure with its additional hazards . |