Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [adj] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators in Washington noted that Bush 's use of the word " irreversible " , to describe the process of change in South Africa , was a stronger form of recognition than that given by European Community member countries . |
| 2 | There are better-engineered cars than those made by Citroen in Paris and , for a while , in Slough , but there is no mass-production company that was so regularly ahead of the research- and-development pack — from the 5CV in the '20s , with its coil ignition and its removable cylinder head , onwards . |
| 3 | However , in seeking alternative approaches towards urban revitalization than those implemented by UDCs , it is the Welsh Development Agency 's Scottish counterpart that offers the most interesting experience . |
| 4 | The darkness made this a more hazardous stretch than that undertaken by Dean Miller , or if not more hazardous , more frightening . |
| 5 | The honours and ordinary degree courses differ in the number and level of units of study undertaken in Year IV ; candidates for the honours degree are required to follow a more demanding programme than that undertaken by ordinary degree students . |
| 6 | More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people . |
| 7 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 8 | The results as finally announced on May 22 gave the KDP , with 45.4 per cent , a marginally higher vote than that won by the PUK ( 43.9 per cent ) . |
| 9 | These majorities in the legislature were only marginally less favourable to the president than those enjoyed by Lyndon Johnson after the 1964 election . |
| 10 | In the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 18 — the first significant contest — the state dealt the most serious electoral blow to an incumbent President since that suffered by Lyndon Johnson in 1968 . |
| 11 | To compare the new technique with the conventional intraoesophageal pH measurement , a method was developed to locate a pH electrode at the same point in the oesophagus as that monitored by the cadmium telluride detector . |
| 12 | While such considerations as those outlined by Helm and Smith may amend the prescriptions of basic fiscal federalism theory , it is a matter of concern when some of the staple prescriptions are flaunted . |
| 13 | This publication ( at p.29 ) gives the auditor the same mandate as that provided by Section 15 of the 1982 Act ( see above ) . |
| 14 | Section 7(3) regulates the same warranties as those covered by s 7(2) . |
| 15 | Bit-pattern indexes will be examined in more detail later ; however , in some circumstances a more rapid reference technique than that provided by a serial file is required . |
| 16 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 17 | This greater variety than that envisaged by Morgan or Engels does certainly modify the picture . |
| 18 | So the only sort of foundationalist who could retain F 1 without F 2 would be one who accepted F 1 for other reasons than those provided by the regress argument . |
| 19 | Freeze business rates this year , thus effectively reducing them in real terms , a larger reduction than that promised by the Government . |
| 20 | This structure is not ‘ literary ’ in the sense of being above and beyond the mundane , or at a higher aesthetic level than that achieved by the characters implicated in it . |
| 21 | The environment in which Bangladeshi babies in Cardiff are brought up has similarities with that of Hong Kong , both being richer in sensory experiences than that experienced by Welsh babies . |
| 22 | In this chapter , it is proposed to consider in detail the radical legislation passed in Michigan , New South Wales and Canada , with a view to assessing whether it provides a better solution to the problem of rape than that envisaged by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in England . |
| 23 | This includes moderations from the external examiners , late notification of medical problems , decisions on field changes which affect a student 's progress or the recommendation of a higher class of degree than that indicated by a progressive average . |
| 24 | Moreover , the duty owed to the applicant may well be higher in certain areas than that indicated by Megarry V.C. |
| 25 | It also — and perhaps more importantly — gave much tighter control over workers , enabling the factory owner to offer an all-or-nothing contract to the mill-workers , such that they would be required to work the then standard fourteen-hour day , six-day week — a far more intensive work-rate than that chosen by the putting-out workers who could exercise their own preference in the trade-off between work and leisure . |
| 26 | The conception of social determination introduced by the social constructionists is a much more total determination than that entertained by Mannheim . |
| 27 | Nor , even if full-time , did they typically do the same type or level of paid work as that performed by the men who were included in the employers ' pension schemes . |
| 28 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 29 | Fur example the devaluation of sterling in 1967 was mainly the consequence of higher inflation in the UK over a number of years than that experienced by her major trading partners . |
| 30 | However , there is little evidence to suggest that these give better estimates of opinions which are any more accurate for these purposes than those yielded by carefully chosen quota samples . |