Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , however , the rules do not seem to have proved as restrictive as many had feared , especially after some relaxations were permitted in January 1990 , in response to submissions by the broadcasters , allowing group shots ( midway between head and shoulder and wide-angle ) and more individual reaction shots ( although these relaxations do not apply during Question Time or ministerial statements ) . |
| 2 | In response to proposals by the councillors , Mr Bleasdale had mooted a site on the suburban circle line , which has been proposed for reopening . |
| 3 | Parents , could , and did , play the system , changing excuses and even changing schools in response to attempts by the school to improve attendance . |
| 4 | Here all disputes have first to be considered by the engineer who is the employer 's agent : the engineer 's function is to administer the contract and issue certificates and decisions in response to claims by the contractor for payment and claims of all kinds , such as claims for extensions of time in which to complete the works . |
| 5 | The law reportedly came in response to recommendations by the United States authorities that controls on cash transactions similar to those in force in the USA should be adopted by other industrialized countries . |
| 6 | In response to demands by the new governments of Czechoslovakia and Hungary [ see p. 37195 ] and in line with the Soviet undertaking given in December 1989 to bring home all its foreign-based troops by the year 2000 [ see p. 37225 ] , the Soviet Union agreed during late February and early March to withdraw its troops from Czechoslovakia and Hungary by mid-1991 . |
| 7 | The decision to release the hostages came in response to appeals by the Libyan leader Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 8 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 9 | The firm 's recommendations were in course of consideration by the Council . |
| 10 | I recently discovered that this consultation paper had been sent out to some environmental NGOs in England in March for comments by the end of April . |
| 11 | Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group . |
| 12 | About one-third of the staff of Albanian Radio and Television ( RTV ) went on strike from Nov. 1 in support of demands by the Independent Radio-Television Trade Union for the resignation of RTV 's directors , a demand supported by the Democratic Party , whose deputies boycotted the debate on the status of RTV in the People 's Assembly . |
| 13 | Their detentions had been widely criticized , and lawyers had threatened a boycott of the courts in support of demands by the Lagos High Court that the men be brought to court and that their trial be held in the city rather than in a remote location . |
| 14 | Here the husband had given a guarantee to the bank in support of advances by the bank to a third party . |
| 15 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 16 | The general secretary of the EPRLF , K. Padmanabha , was also reported to have left Sri Lanka , along with other key officials , and to have gone to India , where thousands of EPRLF supporters were seeking refuge in fear of persecution by the LTTE as it moved into areas vacated by Indian troops . |
| 17 | He remembered the heat of the sun on his back , and the way the cold water cleaved at the touch of the canoe , as it was propelled forward in search of prey by the hunters . |
| 18 | These programs will be stored by the computer in readiness for use by the specific location . |
| 19 | These differences in motivation would naturally lead to differences in formulations of objectives by the various groups . |
| 20 | THE first exhibition in Scotland of watercolours by the Prince of Wales opens at the Palace of Holyroodhouse tomorrow . |
| 21 | This generous loan from the Vatican is in exchange for payment by the German episcopal conference for a new air conditioning system in the Vatican Library 's book stacks , a deal arranged by the Stuttgart Belser-Verlag which also paid for the exhibition 's catalogue ( by Jonathan Alexander , Eberhard König , Jean Michel Massing and others ; DM98 ) . |
| 22 | The Plan presents a set of initiatives which it hoped will contribute to the achievement of a one third reduction in casualties in Lothian by the year 2000 . |
| 23 | It was founded in imitation of Mussolini by the improbable figure of Miss Rotha Lintom-Orman , a young woman who was the daughter of a major , the granddaughter of a field-marshal , and whose clothes seemed to emphasise her more masculine qualities . |
| 24 | As the plaintiff was precluded from relying on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher by the decision in Dunne v. North Western Gas Board , the action failed . |
| 25 | In spite of reassurances by the United States President , George Bush , that there would be no reductions in the 43,000 US forces in South Korea , bilateral defence talks to this effect took place in December 1989 and January 1990 . |
| 26 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 27 | The Home Secretary will not reopen the Birmingham Six pub bombings case in spite of pleas by the city 's leading churchmen . |
| 28 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |
| 29 | A new Chair in European Law has been created , made possible by an initial commitment well in excess of £100,000 by the Birmingham law firm of Wragge & Co . |
| 30 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |