Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supplied in normal years by the South and the East , it extended to the North and even to Cornwall in years of short supply . |
| 2 | The Robbins Report , and its acceptance in broad terms by the Conservative government of the day , marked the beginning of a period of rapid expansion . |
| 3 | The privatisation programme , it was proposed , would take place in three stages , with not less than 20 per cent of the republic 's assets in private hands by the end of 1992 . |
| 4 | Round she went , mouth slightly parted , eyes seeing who knew what in that circle of lights running into a liquid line as the machine quickened ; in the faces , all one blur below her as she was swung out to them and back away from them again ; in the dark caverns of leaves away above in the trees which seemed so distant , so other , lit in strange patches by the wandering spotlights , strange shadows feeling their way over branches as the lighted islands in the gathering dark turned and twirled , swayed , shuddered , slowed and came to rest . |
| 5 | Such direct measures were first undertaken in rural areas by the Development Commission , established in 1947 . |
| 6 | As the world 's leading manufacturer of permanent pressure tennis balls , ( formerly known as ‘ pressureless ’ and of a type favoured in European markets by the general public but not yet extensively used in professional tournament tennis ) , Tretorn has justifiable cause for concern . |
| 7 | The government also undertook to meet a planned increase of US$97,000,000 in foreign reserves by the end of May 1991 , when the standby arrangement would expire . |
| 8 | He was one of the 41 high level individuals drawn from industry , government , international and non-governmental organisations in 22 countries by the US based Keystone Centre to produce the report . |
| 9 | The new intellectualism , represented in different spheres by the " modern " tragedian Euripides and the philosopher Socrates , was both disturbing and destructive . |
| 10 | All four are , for example , victimised in different ways by the taboo of illegitimacy and the play focuses on Rose , who has been kept from the knowledge that Jackie is her mother by grandmother Margaret who has taken on the maternal role . |
| 11 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 12 | The amounts which are claimed are frequently out of all proportion to the loss suffered but , since damages are awarded in some courts by the jury responding to the eloquent pleas of plaintiff 's counsel , the nearest million dollars seems to be not an unusual amount . |
| 13 | And this weakness was almost automatically exacerbated in some instances by the alternative of episcopal jurisdiction for infringements of the Peace of God ; this created procedural uncertainties in the minds of plaintiffs and judges , to delay yet further the chance of obtaining justice . |
| 14 | The fish 's method of receiving sound through their bodies , amplified in some instances by the resonance of the gas-filled swim-bladder , does not work efficiently in air , so most frogs and toads have developed eardrums . |
| 15 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 16 | Such kinds of nationalism , which may be strengthened in some cases by the dominance of a particular religion , are not , in their most intense form , generally conducive to the development of a liberal democratic society , as may be seen from certain current trends in Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | This reluctance has been overcome in some areas by the setting up of ‘ Liaison Committees ’ i.e. informal committees usually consisting of local representatives from the environmental services committee , officers from the environmental health department , the Health and Safety Executive , local residents and local industry . |
| 18 | New-style services of this type are usually less expensive to run than traditional Drug Dependence Clinics and the in-patient beds provided in some areas by the National Health Service ; money spent on establishing local voluntary organization action and a professional back-up service will usually reach a far wider group of people . |
| 19 | The resistance to labouring class poets is balanced in some respects by the support they received . |
| 20 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |
| 21 | Since the industry is in any case organized in some particulars by the Milk Marketing Board , a governmental agency , why not award them the contract for nationwide milk supply ? |
| 22 | His middle career was assisted in some ways by the great fire of London , which saw the disruption of his competitors ' businesses and the destruction of whole editions of many books , including much of Shakespeare 's third folio . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding the fury caused in some quarters by the tone of Yeltsin 's statement ( particularly the accusation that Japan was the only major country not to have provided assistance to Russia ) bilateral working-level talks on the territorial dispute went ahead in Tokyo on July 15-16 as planned . |
| 24 | Today , the ancient name of Douglas is still well represented in Scottish affrays by the Dukes of Hamilton and Buccleuch , Earls of Home and Morton , Marquess of Queensberry , and Lord Torphichen . |
| 25 | It is an obvious advantage that ASV provide two substantial fill-ups in shorter pieces by the same composers , though it is conceivable that Hyperion might recouple what was one of its early CD issues , adding more material by Finzi and Stanford already recorded by the same soloist . |
| 26 | Greenpeace wants the licence system phased out and no poisonous waste dumped in British waters by the turn of the century . |
| 27 | Its parents are the European Aster amellus , of which many varieties are grown in gardens , and the Himalayan A. thomsonii , usually represented in British gardens by the dwarf form ‘ Nanus ’ . |
| 28 | Increasingly therefore , financial asset prices are being set in free markets by the forces of supply and demand . |
| 29 | There were not many pagans left in Roman towns by the middle of the fifth century . |
| 30 | This was advocated by Australia , New Zealand and France , and supported by nine other nations , but was opposed in varying degrees by the UK , USA and Japan . |