Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 2 | This process involves the issuing by the Council of Ministers of harmonization directives . |
| 3 | All CIS member states signed an agreement on a single defence budget into which they would pay fixed contributions to be determined by the Council of Heads of Government . |
| 4 | The conference was held immediately prior to WACC-AR 's assembly , and both the conference and the assembly were hosted by the Council of Churches of Namibia . |
| 5 | Nobody is surprised by the idea of spirals of black Spanish radish , forerunners of the Troisgros serpentins de legumes , as part of an hors d'oeuvre , or lettuce dressed with orange juice as well as oil and vinegar . |
| 6 | And no doubt some ‘ inner cohesion ’ of the ‘ community of fate ’ was stimulated by the intensification of feelings of hatred towards the allied bombers and especially the thirsting for retaliation against Britain . |
| 7 | Discussions about wild cocoa would be accompanied by the drinking of bowls of chicha , the daily staple diet of the Indians , made by the women from manioc : ground , masticated , and fermented . |
| 8 | The RSC Research Fund exists to assist members in their research by the provision of grants of up to £1000 towards , for example , the purchase of chemicals or equipment or for running expenses of chemical education research . |
| 9 | Our activities are restrained by the availability of resources of clients . |
| 10 | Such annual sum will be used , in accordance with terms and conditions to be agreed , for the purchase by the Foundation of paintings of the Collection . |
| 11 | The adults occur on mucosal surfaces of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts and feeding is generally by the ingestion of plugs of mucosa . |
| 12 | These were built primarily round the kin-group , and expanded by the making of bonds of maintenance and manrent , whereby lords and men offered one another protection and support , normally for life , sometimes in perpetuity . |
| 13 | The dangers for teachers in war zones of being identified with the government were exemplified by the fate of numbers of ‘ popular teachers ’ who were killed or kidnapped by the Contras . |
| 14 | This great plate — adorned with a few ‘ hot spots ’ , where plumes of magma have spurted to the surface randomly to form such agglomerations of islands as the Hawaiian chain , the Marquesas , the Tuamotos , the Tubuais and that tiny British possession the Pitcairn group — is almost universally deep , has a floor covered with siliceous oozes and red clays and is dotted with millions of volcanic abyssal hills discovered by the trailing of arrays of echo-sounders . |
| 15 | A 1992 survey commissioned by the Institute of Directors of member companies who employ less than 100 people , has shown that the cost of bank finance is generally felt by small business to be a greater problem than availability . |
| 16 | I am struck by the pervasiveness of assumptions of genre in writing and thinking about television , and by the simultaneous difficulty of identifying where the theoretical groundings of these assumptions lie . |
| 17 | The rarity of their bones is matched by the rarity of pieces of horse-gear from settlements and cemeteries . |
| 18 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 19 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 20 | Later that year , he was admitted to the Academy run by the Board of Trustees of Edinburgh after proving his skill in competition with other artists . |
| 21 | They argued that enterprises would not reduce their prices but simply would accumulate stocks of finished goods , financing this by the issue of bills of exchange . |
| 22 | The tramway was to prove no exception , a fact underlined by the presence of rows of mayors at the opening on 29th September 1885 . |
| 23 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 24 | This can become highly marketable entertainment , as demonstrated by the success of anthologies of children 's letters to God or television comedy like ‘ Child 's Play ’ . |
| 25 | If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank . |
| 26 | Malaria is primarily a disease of the blood , and is transmitted from person to person by the bite of females of certain species of anopheline mosquitoes . |
| 27 | This view is supported by the behaviour of members of Israeli kibbutzim who very rarely marry the people they have grown up with ( Spiro , 1958 ; Talmon , 1964 ; Shepher , 1971 ) . |
| 28 | To explain these observations Fischer has proposed the solidification model in which crystallization is believed to take place by the straightening of sections of the polymer coil followed by alignment of these sequences in regular arrays forming the lamellar structure . |
| 29 | In other words , they are ‘ better designed ’ not simply by chance ( which would be the case if a large single-step mutation occurred ) , but by the accumulation of myriads of single-step mutations aided , over long periods of time , by the natural weeding-out process of those species less successfully adapted for long-term survival . |
| 30 | The volumes are not especially easy to use , however , and more detailed and accessible information is contained in two works published in 1950 and 1967 by the Society of Antiquaries of London : A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms by Sir Anthony Wagner , and Rolls of Arms — Henry III edited by T.D . |