Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 31 | The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives . |
| 32 | As a result of the cut-back in production by the steel industry 's customers and the ‘ dumping ’ of subsidized special steel imports , the numbers of people employed in metal manufacture have declined enormously in recent years : between mid-1979 and mid-1983 the reduction in the numbers employed in this sector was greater than in any other sector of the economy ( Department of Employment 1983 : 511 ) . |
| 33 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 34 | As the most recent poll tax was itself reduced as a result of the raising of VAT by 2.5 per cent , where are benefits that should accrue from what was supposed to be a ‘ new ’ progressive property tax ? |
| 35 | Next is the chapel of St Francis Xavier , with the painting of the death of the saint in China by Frans Xavier Balko ; St John Nepomuk painted by Ignác Raab and a Virgin and Child , possibly German of the 16C . |
| 36 | v. Morgan [ 1985 ] A.C. 686. ( iii ) Unless undue influence or misrepresentation of the nature envisaged under ( i ) has in fact occurred , and has led to the execution of the document in question by the surety , again equity will not intervene , on that account . |
| 37 | In effect , Henry acted in breach of the treaty of Paris by using his style as duke of Normandy and count of Anjou for acts of English internal administration . |
| 38 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 39 | Ever since the end of the second world war , France had endeavoured to absorb the Saar area into their country , but in 1957 , it was returned to the Federal Republic of West Germany , and following the signing of the Treaty of Rome by the original six countries , in March 1957 , the European Economic Council was created and the Federal Republic was allowed to join the E.E.C . |
| 40 | The problem of the transfer of loyalty by members of the aristocracy from one Merovingian to another attracted the attention of Guntram and Childebert shortly after Rauching 's death , when they met at Andelot . |
| 41 | In the case of a sale the transaction will normally go through three stages : — ( 1 ) an agreement ( which , particularly if a block of shares conferring de facto or de jure control is being sold , may be a complicated one ) ( 2 ) delivery of the signed transfer and the certificate by the seller and payment of the price by the buyer and ( 3 ) lodgment of the transfer for registration by the company . |
| 42 | Instead , the delegates honoured one of the pioneers of integration by electing Robert Schuman to the post . |
| 43 | Second , an appreciation is being sought of the inter-relationship between organisations by appraising the resources needed ( eg legal , economic and information resources ) , their origins , the way in which they are distributed and the inter-organisational network within which these transactions take place . |
| 44 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 45 | The effects ranged from the hilarity and confusion produced by laughing gas ( nitrous oxide in less than anaesthetic doses ) to a simple diminution of the sense of pain by fever-reducing drugs of the coal-tar dyestuffs industry ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 46 | The growth of intra-industry is deemed to require a considerable amount of Europeanisation of the activities of companies by merger and acquisition , and DFI . |
| 47 | In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil . |
| 48 | It seems that Louis-Napoleon , through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking , overestimated the strength of Bonapartist feeling in France and foolishly decided to attempt the overthrow of the government of Louis-Philippe by means of a coup d'état . |
| 49 | However , it is nevertheless suggested that the draftsman is unlikely to be able to provide a satisfactory procedure for future disputes without losing most of the advantages of determination by expert . |
| 50 | the unilateral assumption of the conduct of matters by the son must be distinguished from the son acting as agent for plaintiffs in the procuring of the signatures of his parents to the deeds . |
| 51 | PRESIDENT Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania last night defied international condemnation of the massacre of demonstrators by his security forces at the weekend as reports indicated tens of thousands had again taken to the streets of in Timisoara , escalating the crisis . |
| 52 | A ceremony on Oct. 5 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar near Kiev was attended by Jewish , German and US delegations . |
| 53 | These are merely two of many illustrations of the dangers of travel by sea , even though this was often easier , especially over long distances , than movement by land . |
| 54 | Gail , 25 who works in Human Resources at risley and hubby Mark will be enjoying the £250 , two-night holiday at one of Lancaster 's top hotels , Lancaster House , plus tickets to the outdoor performance of the wizard of Oz by the Duke 's Theatre company . |
| 55 | This point has been shown again and again ; it is clear from the excellent descriptions of production activities which we have of peoples such as the Tikopia of Polynesia described by Firth [ 1939 ] or of the Bemba of Africa by Audrey Richards [ 1939 ] . |
| 56 | Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself . |
| 57 | In particular the assumption of the title of Emperor by Peter I of Russia in 1721 set off a series of complicated controversies ( notably with the Holy Roman Emperors who claimed a monopoly of the imperial title ) which dragged on intermittently for decades . |
| 58 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 59 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 60 | There was also disagreement about Japan 's alleged obstruction of foreign investment plans by European companies ; Frans Andriessen , an EC Commission vice-president , complained on Feb. 2 that Japanese investment in the EC outweighed that of the EC in Japan by a factor of 60 . |