Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the foyer of Washington DC 's Space and Aviation Museum visitors will see on display a slice of grey volcanic rock polished smooth by the caresses of countless thousands of admiring fingers . |
| 2 | Despite the growing importance of state intervention through macroeconomic planning and industrial policies , the essential decisions about investment were still taken by the controllers of private capital , on the basis of private profitability . |
| 3 | At the 1979 Annual General Meeting the members were again vocal about bondholders , this time with particular reference to the frequent incidence of bondholders being elected by the members at large , and usually without their bondholding being known , a situation not precluded by the Rules . |
| 4 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 5 | Yet literature can only give access to the values entertained by the members of literate communities and in these only for persons able to apprehend what they read . |
| 6 | It can not be regarded as a matter of indifference whether the unfilled portions of the world shall be peopled by Eastern races , by negroes , by Slavonic or other Eastern European peoples , by the Latin races , or by the races of Northern Europe . |
| 7 | In 1984 , the first of eight massive plumes were detected by the NOAA over Novaya Zemlya , the Arctic island long used by the Russians for nuclear weapons tests . |
| 8 | Britain also sought American help in dealing with the unilateral declaration of independence by the whites of Southern Rhodesia in 1965 in the face of the Wilson government 's insistence on safeguards for the rest of the population . |
| 9 | The false conceptions that facilitated those observations would now be replaced by the notions of attractive and repulsive forces acting at a distance , leading to quite different observation reports . |
| 10 | The second Cuvée close/Charmat method is favoured by the producers of mass-produced sparkling wines . |
| 11 | There were also several differences between the profile of known Wirral heroin users and the ‘ new ’ heroin users described by the surveys in other parts of the UK during the 1980s . |
| 12 | His philosophy was neatly encapsulated by the gents from Spinal Tap : ‘ Have a good time — all the time . ’ |
| 13 | Just as women are excluded from the ‘ state of nature ’ , so they are ignored by the precepts of political realism . |
| 14 | Is the outcome of 1917 explicable in terms of a relatively backward country being caught off balance at a critical moment in its development by the contingencies of international relations ? |
| 15 | The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in . |
| 16 | Dr. Leadbetter then commented on the other side of the coin ; the problems of under-funding were to some extent compensated for by the rewards of hard earned success . |
| 17 | It means that the boundary of the black hole , the event horizon , is formed by the paths in space-time of rays of light that just fail to get away from the black hole , hovering forever just on the edge ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 18 | His earlier refusal to play the party game had led the political establishment to ignore him , and their view was now reinforced by the problems for public order brought about by Mosley 's street-corner politics . |
| 19 | Ian Miller , 34 , was swamped by the problems of small businesses , an inquest heard . |
| 20 | compounded by the problems of poor accessibility in areas that are relatively ( or absolutely ) sparsely populated and increasingly deprived by the concentration of employment and services in centres of population . |
| 21 | For almost half a century the housing question had been dominated by the problems of insanitary , unfit dwellings and the association with overcrowding and ill health . |
| 22 | Orthotopic liver transplantation has now been performed in several cases , but its widespread use is likely to be restricted by the problems of postoperative sepsis , perioperative cerebral oedema , psychological assessment , and availability of donors . |
| 23 | However , the counsellor will have to work with older people whose lives have already been deeply affected by the problems of ageing , and this will require all the skills and insight of looking into individual feelings and attitudes already outlined in Part 1 . |
| 24 | Disabled drivers , too , are worried that they could be left without insurance cover by the problems at Municipal Mutual . |
| 25 | This view is supported by the experiments on late recognition of Pollack and Pickett ( 1963 ) , Grosjean ( 1980 , 1985 ) , Shillcock , Altmann & Bard ( 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Much of the significance of ancient sites comes from their use for ritual purposes , and this is borne out by the survivals of ancient traditions . |
| 27 | The rate of interest fixed by the Commissioners on Landed Securities ( which was fixed at 11 ½ per cent for the six months from and after Martinmas 1974 and which will continue at that rate for the six months from and after Whitsunday 1975 ) . |
| 28 | The Reverend Dr. John Walker was sent by the Commissioners of Annexed Estates to visit and report on the state of the Hebrides , and , being a prominent naturalist to examine the natural histories of these countries . |
| 29 | The Reverend Dr. John Walker was sent by the Commissioners of Annexed Estates to visit and report on the state of the Hebrides , and , being a prominent naturalist to examine the natural histories of these countries . |
| 30 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |