Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can accept the possibility that reception of cultural products is not always as passive as Adorno suggests , that it is often class-differentiated , that consuming subjects are not necessarily unitary conformists so much as sites traversed by conflicting interpretative schemas . |
| 2 | Taking these and studies commissioned by donors in countries where they are the predominant donor into account , it appears that only about ten African aid recipients have been studied in this way . |
| 3 | One or two odd shapes were found , but most authorities dismissed these as patterns produced by the physical processes of rock formation that had nothing whatever to do with living organisms . |
| 4 | It is therefore entirely possible that the Kremlin will delay a resumption of negotiations and wait for our natural impatience , our demobilization problems , declining American interest in Korean affairs and local dissatisfaction with the division of the country to oblige us to supply speedy solution of these terms , i.e. a united front which excluding [ excludes ] all but elements controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 5 | Determined to let Rune 's volatile lover know the truth — that , far from being lovers themselves , she and Rune were nothing more than strangers linked by a common family crisis — she began firmly , ‘ Look , Lotta — there 's something you should know . |
| 6 | Michael Perry stresses that these are no more than speculations prefaced by ‘ perhaps ’ and ‘ I do n't knows ’ , and adds the caveat that they must be tested against the touchstone of a Christian understanding . |
| 7 | The Arab houses are little more than shacks separated by acres of devastation where developers have torn down vacated Palestinian homes . |
| 8 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |