Example sentences of "by the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are as follows : ( 1 ) Once a Court Scheme has been approved by the requisite majority of members and sanctioned by the court it is binding on all the members ( or the particular class of them ) and the company . |
| 2 | ( b ) whether to sanction the scheme following its approval by the requisite majority of shareholders . |
| 3 | ( 8 ) The bidder always runs the risk that at the hearing of the petition the court will exercise its discretion not to sanction the scheme even though it has been approved by the requisite minority of members ( see para 2.4.7 below ) . |
| 4 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 5 | BY the worn-out water of women |
| 6 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 7 | This was followed by the bowling-alley racket of stones and boulders ricocheting off the walls of the crater as they ascended from a great depth to gush out over our heads in billowing clouds of debris and Our equipment , clothes and bodies were penetrated by the finest , hardest black dust . |
| 8 | operations of the enterprise may be jeopardised by the frequent attendance of executives at meetings , and by distracting them from their real duties ; |
| 9 | The value of the data base to researchers will be enhanced by the systematic inclusion of references to allow the identification of the parliamentary constituency within each ward falls ; the tracing of changes in ward boundaries over the period since 1973 ; and the matching of ward level electoral data with material collected for the 1981 census . |
| 10 | When Neil Kinnock was doing Mr Smith 's job , his leadership was undermined by the unremitting hostility of sections of the media . |
| 11 | Steve McIvor , campaigns director for the anti-vivisection association , said : ‘ The public who support safari parks should be outraged by the shameful sale of monkeys for the lab trade . |
| 12 | The width of the field is determined by the maximal number of characters required for that variable . |
| 13 | As such , it was an important milestone on the road to the closer association of the European Community , a facet acknowledged by the European Union of Federalists which reported that the Council ‘ marked the beginning of a real and organic cooperation between the nations of Europe ’ and ‘ the end of the illusion that the aim of European unity can be achieved without political machinery on a supranational level , . |
| 14 | In the case of the Pump Wagon this power is provided not by horses , wolves or some other beast , but by the frantic pumping of Snotlings which drives a simple mechanism and keeps the Pump Wagon moving . |
| 15 | Leonora opened the cupboard and added the cup to a row of others , rather awed by the perfect symmetry of plates in orderly stacks according to size and function . |
| 16 | Stand by the external display of sunglasses . |
| 17 | In this period of rapid social change , involving families moving from the countryside to the town , the support given by the wider network of relatives was of great importance for individual families . |
| 18 | They sat in silence for a very long time , surrounded by the ancient circle of stones . |
| 19 | But he 's impressed , Howard can tell , by the casual use of expressions like ‘ dreck ’ and ‘ would you believe ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Harm ’ for the purpose of paragraph ( c ) is defined by the combined effect of sections 105(1) and 31(9) and ( 10 ) as ‘ ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development . ’ |
| 21 | Joints and fissures are probably enlarged partly by the abrasive effect of stones scoured into them by the waves and partly by the pressures generated by the waves when they break against the cliffs . |
| 22 | The impact of each group upon the others is shown by the spatial arrangement of groups . |
| 23 | Theories of gender and education have , to some extent , mirrored those on class and education : there are those who believe that inequality is caused by the differential socialization of girls and boys ( in a sense , that girls are ‘ culturally deprived ’ ) and that this can be overcome through removing prejudice ; there are also those ( e.g. Spender 1982 ; Mahony 1985 ) who believe that schools both reflect and reproduce patriarchal relations . |
| 24 | But if the support for the SNP was , like the Liberal vote , a substantially ‘ cross-class ’ phenomenon it can not so easily be categorised as a flight from ‘ class ’ as pertinent social collectivity , since it must be recognised that the ‘ national distinctiveness ’ of Scotland is overdetermined by the differential balance of classes in Scotland as opposed to England . |
| 25 | The use by the Prime Minister of powers under the royal prerogative to ban trade unions at the Government Communication Headquarters at Cheltenham in 1983 was contested both for its lawfulness — that is whether such powers could be used and if so whether they were used correctly — and also for its legitimacy that is whether , even if the constitutional power existed , this was a proper and fair use of the power . |
| 26 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 27 | She was frustrated by the narrow range of vegetables available in the country and said that tomorrow she would go foraging in the fields for different types of mushrooms and wild herbs . |
| 28 | It is a cause of women 's relatively low pay and limits women 's chances by the narrow range of occupations to which they tend to be confined . |
| 29 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 30 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |