Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is listed as one of the world 's most endangered animals by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature . |
| 2 | The most interesting observations by the Ombudsman in the Barlow Clowes report concern the DTI 's vision of regulation . |
| 3 | Signed by President Bush and Prime Minister Mulroney on March 13 , the agreement commits the USA to cutting sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) emissions to below 1980 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 4 | This stipulates that emissions of sulphur dioxide must be cut to 10 million tonnes below 1980 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | So English falls by the wayside — or Hindi , or the local language . |
| 6 | Now , in the first detailed account of what were apparently serious efforts by the Mojahedin to subvert Soviet power , Tass has quoted Mr Vladimir Petkel , the head of state security in Tadjikistan , as saying the situation had become considerably worse since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan . |
| 7 | Now , in the first detailed account of what were apparently serious efforts by the Mojahedin to subvert Soviet power , Tass has quoted Mr Vladimir Petkel , the head of state security in Tadjikistan , as saying the situation had become considerably worse since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan . |
| 8 | The pay rise prohibition , however , had been approved by only six states by the end of 1791 . |
| 9 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 10 | But this introspective isolation , now compounded in so many cases by the fact that universities are the only institutions able to support a composer 's existence , perpetuates the sense that the only right path for a serious composer is the romantic path of high seriousness and absolute individual integrity . |
| 11 | Disastrous tour poses leading questions Following so many mistakes by the England selectors , Jeremy Allerton suggests that it 's time for changes at the top |
| 12 | The pretrial phase , the instruzione formale , was in theory controlled by the judge and only in the less complicated cases by the public prosecutor who conducted the instruzione sommaria . |
| 13 | Despite disappointment in the City , the pound had lost only 0.5 pfennigs by the close to finish in London at DM2.9562 . |
| 14 | In these two , highly important decisions by the European Court of Justice on the interpretation of the Transfers Directive ( Directive 77/187/EEC ) the Court has once again injected itself into issues of current legal and political controversy in the United Kingdom , namely the rights of workers whose employer decides ( or is compelled by government policy ) to contract out the provision of services , previously provided in-house , to an outside employer . |
| 15 | Half the fleet had arrived by last night , including the joint services yacht Satquote British Defender , which was beaten for eighth place by only 37 minutes by the first of the three Finnish challengers , Martela OF . |
| 16 | But there is rich compensation in Barbara Jefford 's magnificent Volumnia : why has this superb actress been given only two roles by the RSC in 30 years ? |
| 17 | But the reported burial of Scottish kings on Iona may reflect only unfounded pretensions by the monastery there . |
| 18 | Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato , in particular a passage in his Timaeus : ‘ But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods , and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body . |
| 19 | India were reduced to 71-6 in their second innings , a lead of just eight runs by the close of the third day in the third Test at Port Elizabeth . |
| 20 | The Commission 's verdict threatens to sweep away two undertakings by the industry which underpin the operation office Pesticides Safety Precautions Scheme . |
| 21 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 22 | ‘ He looks like a character who has been chucked out of a Stephen Conroy painting for making too much noise ’ was one of the more polite comments by the critics . |
| 23 | One of the more striking interventions by the courts in recent years came when the Court of Appeal overturned the decision by the Secretary of State for the Environment to allow the demolition of listed buildings in the City of London . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's always some police by the Circus , ’ I knew they were there because of the Jewish population around the area — and the frequent Mosley British Fascist parades . |
| 25 | Despite much more detailed warnings by the pharmaceutical companies , doctors still prescribe tranquilizers and sleeping pills at the rate of 21 million annually . |
| 26 | This very influential paper was succeeded by others , many also published as Professional Papers , and including exposition of the concept of entropy ( Leopold and Langbein , 1962 ) which is referred to later ( p. 159 ) although the emphasis upon contemporary environments which was being promulgated was reconciled to some extent with the more historical approaches by the time-scales devised by Schumm and Lichty ( 1965 ) as indicated at the beginning of chapter 8 ( p. 162 ) . |
| 27 | The world has learnt the lessons from that , of the need for a more effective operation and for more intrusive inspections by the IAEA . |
| 28 | She was being drawn into ever more dangerous waters by the profound attraction she felt towards him . |
| 29 | The formal investigation , in which the CRE has the power to interview staff and examine confidential files , is into possibly unlawful failures by the region to assess properly the intelligence of children who speak English poorly and are judged to have learning difficulties . |
| 30 | The formal investigation is into possibly unlawful failures by the region to assess properly the intelligence of children who speak English poorly and are judged to have learning difficulties . |