Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun sg] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Population growth in the 1980s was dominated by shire counties in the southern half of England , the ‘ rural South ’ , particularly those forming an arc in and around the western and northern parts of the South East region . |
| 2 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 3 | ACTIONAID is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year and to mark the event a bike ride from Manchester to Blackpool has been organised by supporter groups in the North West . |
| 4 | British Waterways and the Ministry of Agriculture have been approached by fishing clubs in the region to help rid them of the menace which is depleting fish stocks in the canal . |
| 5 | The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex , dome , apse and on the walls . |
| 6 | This project has been conceived and designed by engineering staff in the Regional Council 's Department of Highways with assistance being given by ScotRail and Messrs J B Schofield and Partners in the design and construction supervision of the two bridges carrying the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway over the Sighthill Bypass and associated roadworks and in the temporary diversion of this railway . |
| 7 | Subsequently , in the 1970s this approach was also addressed by M.A. Carson in The Mechanics of Erosion ( Carson , 1971 ) in a book which provided a unified introduction to the mechanics of erosional processes and which was aimed at undergraduates in earth science . |
| 8 | But if the two ca n't agree over planning permission , the peace of wildlife here is unlikely to be disturbed by development work in the near future . |
| 9 | Here we see how Bukharin viewed the changes wrought by finance capital in the national capitalist economies . |
| 10 | Decisions on these would then be made by majority vote in the Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | None the less , when properly used , the quota sample can avoid the kind of gross errors made by attitude surveys in the past . |
| 12 | It is at least plausible that the cryptic advertisements widely adopted by cigarette advertisers in the UK work insidiously but effectively on children by offering them the reward of deciphering the hidden messages in ( for example ) the Benson & Hedges Pure Gold adverts : if they can understand and recognise them , they join an adult conspiracy or club . |
| 13 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 14 | AGONY : A badly-injured victim of the crash is tended by rescue workers in the Amsterdam suburb |
| 15 | Hampden 's great house was bought by Hammer films in the 70 's to make horror movies . |
| 16 | This was small ( <3% ) in comparison with the radioactivity produced by substrate metabolism in the presence of mucosal biopsy specimens ( range 24000–115000 DPM ) . |
| 17 | What delivery systems will be used by university libraries in the twenty-first century is not settled . |
| 18 | Also in June , right-wing extremists were blamed for bomb attacks on ( i ) a war museum in Pretoria ; ( ii ) the National Union of Mineworkers offices in Welkom [ see also pp. 37440-41 ] ; and ( iii ) two offices used by government ministers in the Transvaal . |
| 19 | The Citizens ' Parliamentary Club ( OKP — the name used by Solidarity deputies in the National Assembly ) split on Jan. 4 , when 43 Sejm deputies and 27 Senators formed a new parliamentary floor group called the Democratic Union . |
| 20 | Only 30 per cent of the drugs could be used by health workers in the disaster area . |
| 21 | 4,000 people have already been helped by Victim Support in the Banbury area , including John and Rose Hayward . |
| 22 | At the risk of oversimplification , functionalist approaches were challenged by interactionist sociology in the 1960s and 1970s ; which has itself been criticised by the revival of Marxist-based theories . |
| 23 | They had n't the appeal of the stinking lanes fitfully lit by naphtha flares in the souks when a fair went on long into the night . |
| 24 | The cosy lounge is lit by log fires in the cold winter months and has a colour TV . |
| 25 | This information is the intangible ‘ know-how ’ employed by information workers in the prosecution of their tasks . |
| 26 | An important part in this is played by water vapour in the air . |
| 27 | The precise part played by peasant unrest in the genesis and character of the reform has long been hotly disputed . |
| 28 | It will look at the part played by pressure groups in the system , and it will examine the case that has been made for regarding democracy as significantly undermined by ‘ political elites ’ . |
| 29 | One way to help this process is to involve all staff affected by computer systems in the computing process . |
| 30 | Many characters are affected by gene dosage in the same way . |