Example sentences of "as [vb -s] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 2 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 3 | The plot was described as follows by the theatre : |
| 4 | The above extract was rendered as follows by the writer/translator : |
| 5 | By the early nineteenth century , the term ‘ Boroughmonger ’ , at any rate in Scotland , had come to mean anyone who was anti-reform , and indeed the whole Tory party at the time were branded as Boroughmongers by the radical reformers . |
| 6 | The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press . |