Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast there has been the almost total cessation of the reporting of rape trials by the News of the World , as described above ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 2 | That decision has been regarded as definitive , by judges of first instance , as to the application of the Torfaen principle in this country ; but of course matters have changed following the collapse of injunction proceedings by local authorities after the decision of the Court of Appeal now under consideration . |
| 3 | It is clearly very difficult to say how much of this discrimination is the result of policy decisions by employers . |
| 4 | In Profile will present a selection of original works from the International Women 's Art Diary together with a continuous slide programme showing a brief history of WASL 's work and a full programme of lunchtime talks by some of our members . |
| 5 | One recent study of user interfaces by Campari et al. ( 1990 ) has employed graphical concepts in the design of GIS operations . |
| 6 | Shafir made a detailed study of comprehension levels by the supposedly literate . |
| 7 | Suggestions that small and medium enterprises are going to find life particularly difficult in the labour market of the next few years are also made in a study of recruitment problems by the Local Economy Research Unit at Hatfield Polytechnic . |
| 8 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |
| 9 | We also campaigned against the widespread practice of pregnancy tests by employers and the dismissal of pregnant women . |
| 10 | However , the threat of importation of the disease has returned , not only on a small scale relating to violation of quarantine regulations by dog owners but because the rabies virus has been spread throughout Europe into France ( UK 's nearest continental neighbour ) by the red fox and concern is rising too about rabies-infected bats in Europe . |
| 11 | Buckingham Palace holds a secret tape of phone conversations by Diana . |
| 12 | In particular , as the discount houses were obliged to take up the whole of the weekly offering of Treasury bills by the Bank , the Bank could , by deliberately overissuing Treasury bills , leave the discount houses short of cash balances and force them to borrow from the Bank . |
| 13 | There will of course be a delay between the completion of time sheets by the operatives , or bonus calculations by the bonus surveyor , and the actual payment of wages including any expenses and allowances . |
| 14 | These are rocks formed by the welding of rock fragments by heat and pressure , producing a rock in which there is little empty space but in which the original fragments can be discerned . |
| 15 | The rise is attributed to a combination of thermal expansion due to global warming , and the sinking of coastal land as a result of the rapid depletion of groundwater reserves by expanding urban areas . |
| 16 | However , there is no bar on the institution of enforcement proceedings by local authorities where evidence of non-payment can be brought before the court , and proceedings continue to be brought successfully in many other areas . |
| 17 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 18 | The study classified adjustments as modifying the cause , modifying the loss or distributing the loss and established that while flood control expenditures had multiplied the level of flood damages had risen , and that the natural purpose of reducing the toll of flood losses by building flood control projects had not been achieved ( White , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | None of the recent legislation and carve-up of countryside bodies by the present regime holds anything of good for the public . |
| 20 | On March 2 , 1990 , a meeting of the Conference in London discussed the implications of the Stevens report [ see above ] , the progress of a joint working party established to make recommendations about the monitoring of Army patrols by the RUC , and extradition matters . |
| 21 | Calling for closer monitoring of government activities by the US Department of the Interior , the report was highly critical of Belau government involvement in heroin trafficking and terrorism , fiscal irresponsibility and lax laws . |
| 22 | So while the search for links is pervasive in the coverage of sex attacks by popular newspapers , it is important to recognise that the demand is not totally inexorable . |
| 23 | Contamination of water supplies by oily mists threatens agriculture in the region since it is almost entirely based on irrigation . |
| 24 | Now , however , a working party on heavy metals in food has concluded that 16 per cent of lead intake in the average diet comes from the contamination of food crops by lead — almost almost all of which comes from petrol fumes . |
| 25 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
| 26 | Accusing conventional farmers of scorning organic farming methods as " some kind of drop out option for superannuated hippies " , Prince Charles proposed a reduction of nitrogen fertilisers by the issue of quotas for farms . |
| 27 | Another problem is that when the expatriates return to Britain , the payment of school fees by the employer generally ends and the couple may not be able to afford to keep their children in private education . |
| 28 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 29 | The court held that the erratic payment of stock dividends by companies to shareholders ( even though stock dividends were received in 1962/63 and 1963/64 ) paid out to the life tenant , was such that the payments in the hands of the life tenant were in the nature of capital . |
| 30 | There was a wave of factory seizures by workers ' committees , very often on a local and fragmentary basis . |