Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Row upon row of sunburnt bodies , oiled like sardines , covered the beaches of Spanish resorts by the early 1970s . |
| 32 | The patient was weaned off parenteral nutrition by the end of the second month and the stoma was closed after 5 months . |
| 33 | Quite differently from the shepherd chasing nymphs convention of Marlowe 's poem , in ‘ The Garden ’ the colours of ‘ red ’ and ‘ white ’ are toppled from their usual pedestal by the green of plants and nature ’ . |
| 34 | The remainder of thirty two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine pounds and eighty six pence was covered by an interim payment by the defendants . |
| 35 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
| 36 | But Mr. Thornton forcefully submits that no more is required to sustain the plea than that the court before whom the defendant had previously been charged should have decided his guilt , whether by the court , where it is the tribunal of fact , announcing its decision to that effect , by the return of a guilty verdict by the jury or by the ‘ acceptance ’ of a plea of guilty . |
| 37 | However , for experienced parachutists , anxiety was usually high on the day before the jump but then steadily reduced to a low level by the time of the jump . |
| 38 | Despite the Euro flag , the Euro anthem and the other paraphernalia of Federalism , no one suggests that there are as yet even the makings of an emotional attachment by the citizens of the European nations to a prospective superstate . |
| 39 | Large and small shellfish companies have applied for Several Orders , and they are being promoted for environmental and economic reasons by the industry body , the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers . |
| 40 | The Directive made the adoption of this defence optional and , despite strenuous attempts by the consumer lobby to have it rejected , the government included it in the Act . |
| 41 | This famous line 's deliberate run-down , closure proposals ( three in total ) , the unbelievable fight by the public , culminating in 35,000 objectors during the five-year fight , was an object lesson to BR and the government . |
| 42 | It follows , therefore , that the constraint imposed on the conduct of national monetary policies by the irrevocable fixity of intra-union exchange rates implies that there is no real difference between a currency union and an exchange rate union in terms of the degree of monetary autonomy enjoyed by the union member countries . |
| 43 | The Department of Agriculture said it had no comment to make because the closure was a private decision by the abattoir owners . |
| 44 | He talked about how many of the young players this week would be tempted into professional ranks by the golden vision of all the money that is there to be earned on the circuit . |
| 45 | The Liberal Party , no longer a serious political challenger by the late 1920s , meandered through the inter-war years in a state of deep division and shock . |
| 46 | A major contribution to the growth of state power has also been the ineffective protection traditionally provided for political freedom by the British Constitution . |
| 47 | The decree will come into effect at other European operations by the end of January . |
| 48 | He was particularly pleased with the sale of a striking woodcut by the little known German artist Kurt Scheele of carnival figures from 1929 , executed in an Expressionist style . |
| 49 | With studies of metabolic activity there are still problems with calculating how much of the radioactivity in any part of the brain should be attributed to the utilization of metabolic fuels by the areas concerned , rather than simple uptake . |
| 50 | Except , because of the curiously selfless decision by the clubs to vote themselves half the financial liability , that figure is reduced to £3300 , which , divided by 11 , means an average payment per player of £300 . |
| 51 | The first has effectively been ruled out by the odd admission by the federalists , and has been dealt with earlier . |
| 52 | The problem for the local community is how to prevent this same destruction in their own area , given the strong support by the British state for this type of initiative by private capital On a more local note , given the sectarian nature of the state in the north , the local community has major problems , given that it is a Roman Catholic community , in making its position heard by the local Unionist-dominated council . |
| 53 | The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state . |
| 54 | F. W. de Klerk was on Sept. 14 , 1989 , elected as executive President by the electoral college , after elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament . |
| 55 | They managed to increase this share to almost 53 per cent of the personal sector 's liquid savings by the mid-1980s . |
| 56 | Whether it 's simply the right songs by the right band at the right time , who knows . |
| 57 | This series restores to the catalogue a number of outstanding performances by the pianist Michel Béroff . |
| 58 | Every other nation in Europe puts that at the top of the agenda , but in Britain training is used as a political football by the Conservatives . |
| 59 | These findings were similar to the results of an earlier retrospective study by the same research team of forty-eight families who had a child ( aged five to eight years ) admitted into residential care ( Quinton and Rutter , 1984a ; 1984b ) . |
| 60 | Academy of Sciences : The leading force in basic research , and occasionally brought into mission-orientated research by the VPK and production ministries . |