Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All claims by creditors are provable as debts against the bankrupt whether they are present or future , certain or contingent , ascertained or sounding only in damages ( r 12.3 ) . |
| 2 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 3 | Although the near-monopoly enjoyed by solicitors was indefensible because it related only to the preparation of documents , ‘ there is a real need for consumer protection and I am far from sure that the White Paper proposals meet this need , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The House is anxious to know whether the collection of tax by employers is relevant to where people work or to where they live . |
| 5 | Increasing union strength and a changing ( political ) power balance forced Swedish employers to deal with workers as a collectivity rather than , as Clegg suggests , the support given by employers being decisive for union recruitment . |
| 6 | Where standards followed by manufacturers are voluntary rather than mandatory such as British Standard , this is not within the defence anticipated here . |
| 7 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 8 | Six monthly prompting of non-insulin treated diabetic patients for care by inner city general practitioners and by optometrists is effective and acceptable . |
| 9 | Children picked by paedophiles were likely to be reabused or become abusers themselves . |
| 10 | More participation in exporting by companies is essential if secure jobs are to be created and businesses developed into medium and large factories capable of competing in price and quality against our continental neighbours . |
| 11 | That theory holds that the possession of social decision-making power by companies is legitimate ( that is , there are good reasons for regarding its possession as justified ) only if this state of affairs is in the public interest . |
| 12 | Obviously , a positive sports evaluation by parents is likely to give rise to sporting interests in children and the above examples are illustrative . |
| 13 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 14 | In the 1992 syllabus review it was clarified that vertical groups including associates held by subsidiaries were examinable in this paper . |
| 15 | Local people terrorised by joyriders are worried now that some may take the law into their own hands . |
| 16 | The morning living room , facing east , often used by guests is yellow and blue , the colours of the Swedish flag . |
| 17 | This gearing ratio of some 34% of costs born by subsidies was well outside the original UDG guidelines . |
| 18 | In many respects Standy Credits are preferable to Bank Guarantees because virtually all Credits , including Standby Credits , issued by banks are subject to a set of internationally accepted rules drawn up by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris , known as UCP 400 . |
| 19 | Notice also that this generalised sale of securities by banks is likely to have driven down their price and therefore to have pushed up interest rates . |
| 20 | The better view is that classical liberal economic thought , which propounded that the market allocated resources satisfactorily , that unimpeded private enterprise guaranteed growth and progress , and that intervention by governments was unnecessary and undesirable , had already become common ground . |
| 21 | of the capital of such companies to be held by nationals was contrary to article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 22 | That 's what I mean by things being different for you than for me . ’ |
| 23 | But women at the Rape Crisis centre … say rape by strangers is rare … the most common attacker is likely to be someone the owmen knows and trusts . |
| 24 | Our discussion has shown that so long as the resources used by producers are accessible to all , all their activities are entrepreneurial-competitive . |
| 25 | You ca n't say that all music made by machines is robotic and unfeeling , just because you play guitars it does n't mean you 've got soul . |
| 26 | The fact that our atmosphere and oceans are largely the product of outgassing by volcanoes is important . |
| 27 | Those that increase inclusive fitness through behaviour facilitating reproduction by relatives are nepotistic . |
| 28 | His worry is not that these errors undermine any of their actual results : ‘ that the principles laid down by mathematicians are true , and their way of deduction from those principles clear and incontestable , we do not deny . ’ |
| 29 | Much of the damage caused by keepnets is due to most of them being too narrow , so that as the fish lashes its tail back and forth the mesh brushes the protective mucous off and gradually wears the fin away . |
| 30 | More women referred by GPs were married ( 47 per cent ) or single ( 28 per cent ) than other referrals ( 35 per cent married and 19 per cent single ) . |