Example sentences of "[noun] by the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 2 | The SLORC also announced on Sept. 6 that four NLD officials had been arrested in Mandalay in connection with " disturbances " in the city on Aug. 8 [ see p. 37655 for reported killing of demonstrators in Mandalay by the security forces in early August ] . |
| 3 | The reply by the AFPFL members of Council was to demand that the Red Flags should be banned . |
| 4 | [ 1959 ] 1 W.L.R. 587 concerned an action by the pursuer companies against an electricity board seeking declarator and payment in respect of unlawful overcharges by the defenders for the supply of electricity . |
| 5 | That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . |
| 6 | The well developed , highly liquid and sophisticated money market in London today has , as its origins , the discounting of bills by the discount houses in the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The competence of the adjustment mechanism under managed floating was given a thorough testing by the oil shocks of 1973 — 74 and 1979 — 80 . |
| 8 | Handkerchiefs held in place by the nose clips of sunglasses alleviated some of the worst effects but the speed of burning was staggering . |
| 9 | As will have been apparent from the discussion on pre-emptive rights , this borrowing by the stock markets of an expression ‘ equities ’ derived from the activities of Courts of Chancery has in turn been borrowed by the companies ' legislation in its definition of ‘ equity securities ’ and ‘ equity share capital . ’ |
| 10 | Following the initial distribution by the health visitors of 3,000 sets of leaflets and cards , opinions of those health visitors was researched . |
| 11 | The " living history " sessions offered on site by the Education Officers at many museums and historic buildings can provide particularly rewarding experiences for this age group , stimulating the imagination , through sight , touch , smells , and so on , and helping them to experience " what it was like to live in the past " . |
| 12 | Pincher replied that a denial by the intelligence services about bugging or other secret operation carries no weight because denial is part of their stock-in-trade . |
| 13 | In May 1991 the government outlined a new set of proposals on human rights and referred to the need ‘ to eliminate every form of excess by the security forces in fulfilment of their duties , and to punish those responsible . ’ |
| 14 | Before November 9 , the visitor to the derelict Potsdamer Platz , where no trams run on the ancient tramlines which now lead nowhere , could mount the viewing platform by the tourist kiosks on the western side and peer across the Grepo border guards ' free fire zone at the drab buildings a quarter of a mile away in the east . |
| 15 | Was not the Secretary of State a little disappointed at the reaction of some Church leaders to the successful contact by the security forces at Coalisland ? |
| 16 | This in turn must lead to a single ‘ compensatory ’ and complementary fiscal and taxation authority and thus to the surrender by the nation states of the means for controlling the material well-being and destiny of their citizens . |
| 17 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |
| 18 | This fitted perfectly well into the public service world , but in practice it was considerably diluted for viewers by the networking arrangements of the four ( later five ) larger companies . |
| 19 | In the coconut groves by the beach scores of men were building prahus from scratch , some over 150 feet long . |
| 20 | Third , such analysis links national political-economic processes relevant to erosion and conservation to international affairs , mediated in a great variety of ways by the state systems of different countries . |
| 21 | Thus in Figure 17.3(b) , the supply of bills on offer by the discount houses to the Bank falls as the rate of rediscount rises ( the supply curve of bills by the discount houses is upward sloping ) . |
| 22 | The murders by the drug cartels of two federal judges , Héctor Jiménez Rodriguez and Mariela Espinoza Arango , in Medellín on Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 , 1989 , respectively , and that of court summoner Guillermo Mena Lozano on Nov. 1 in Cali provoked a 13-day strike beginning on Nov. 2 of judges and court workers which paralysed the judicial system nationwide ( 350 judicial employees and 50 judges were estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence since 1980 ) . |
| 23 | On Dec. 13 the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report claiming that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in the previous six months and criticizing the provisions of the emergency powers decreed in early November which allowed the disposal of bodies by the security forces without a post-mortem or inquest [ see p. 37007 ] . |
| 24 | The details of a complaint by the master tailors of London in 1721 show that the organisation revealed in evidence at a trial in 1765 and described again in 1818 by Francis Place as a " perfect combination " had been by that last year in existence for a century . |
| 25 | However , it was subsequently discovered that the real target had been the Interior Minister Moussa , the attack being carried out by the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two Islamic leaders by the security forces in August and September . |
| 26 | When Stephen Shoesmith and the labourers of Bexhill were refused additional payments by the Battle justices in 1821 , they stormed the George Hotel to press their demands . |
| 27 | Ironically , the sudden realization by the oil states of the Third World that they possess a powerful weapon capable of commanding world attention and respect adds a new element of self-interest to this wider sense of common human identity . |
| 28 | The summoning of the Council followed the rejection by the state governors of Collor 's offer to roll over the equivalent of US$57,000 million owed by the states to the federal government , in exchange for their help in persuading congressional members of their respective political parties to approve the government 's August 1991 constitutional reform package on the economy [ see below ; p. 38388 ] . |
| 29 | COPPES won its demand to have a specialized gynaecologist attend the prisoners , many of whom have suffered from multiple rapes by the security forces with obvious consequences . |
| 30 | A BBC Scotland spokeswoman said that a draft script written by Michael Eaton , author of the controversial ITV drama Shoot to Kill based on allegations of extra-judicial killings of IRA members by the security forces in Northern Ireland , had already been commissioned . |