Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] by [art] " in BNC.

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1 The scheme , drawn up after pilot projects by a steering group under Duncan Graham , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , had the support of all the teachers ' and heads ' unions as well as the local authority employers .
2 In a progress report on Sun 's year-old Open Graphics Initiative , Doug Schiff , international director for the programme , said all of Adobe 's products would be available for Sun Sparcsystems by the autumn , but that the two companies were still working out the details of providing PostScript as a ‘ foundation library ’ for developers on Sparc kit .
3 It is thought likely that more than this have been bred and not registered , simply used as guard dogs by the booming security industry in South Africa .
4 And to cap it all , the Brahms and Beethoven so beloved of the buffs was going through amp stages by the score , before and during transmission .
5 Where a child has particularly complex needs a reasonable standard of care within the family may necessarily involve the provision of support services by the local authority .
6 Following consideration of admission prices by the Scottish League Management Committee , secretary Peter Donald confirmed yesterday : ‘ We will not be suggesting any change . ’
7 The airframe is immaculate , with a wonderful paint job kept pristine with the help of a large bag of polishing cloths by the hangar wall .
8 The authorisation of building societies by the Building Societies Commission so that they can raise money and accept deposits depends in part on a society 's having directors , a chief executive and a secretary who are willing and able to direct the society 's affairs in accordance with the criteria of ‘ prudent management ’ which are set out in s 45(3) of the Building Societies Act 1986 .
9 A visit should also include the Chapel of the Pietà , occasionally known as the chapel of San Satiro , where there is a superb Deposition made up of terracotta figures by the artist Agostino De Fondutis .
10 Shafir made a detailed study of comprehension levels by the supposedly literate .
11 Aston Villa 1 , Liverpool 0 THE LATEST in a string of goalkeeping errors by the colourful but controversial Bruce Grobbelaar consigned Liverpool to a depressing defeat at Villa Park , venue of their FA Cup semi-final replay against Portsmouth tomorrow , writes William Johnson .
12 The move also followed the passing of budget resolutions by the House of Representatives on May 1 and by the budget committee of the Senate on May 2 , both of which embodied much deeper cuts in military expenditure than those contained within the Bush budget , which was increasingly viewed as obsolete because of its failure to address the implications of the radical change in Eastern Europe .
13 This dress is by Caroline Alexander ( WD14C92 , £1,635 ) at Collections , 3 Motcomb Street , SW1 , a new shop which holds a wide selection of wedding dresses by a group of well established designers — Fiorito , Andrea Wilkin , Louise Hamlyn-Wright and Rebecca Street — each one is available , by appointment , to create the dress of your dreams .
14 The wearing of pig badges by a large group of staff , many of whom were members of middle management , after the Deputy Head , Peter Moors , had suggested that pork was less suitable than turkey for the school 's Christmas dinner , since it prevented Muslim boys from taking part .
15 Financing such payments ( which frequently would take the form of annuity payments by the firm out of its profits or an annuity contract purchased by the firm ) was never easy and reliance had to be placed on incoming partners ' immediate capital contributions .
16 Twenty one Welsh MPs tabled a Commons motion claiming the appointment of Carolyn Jones ‘ brought further disgrace on to the use and abuse of patronage powers by the Secretary of State ’ .
17 It goes on : ‘ This is one party political appointment too far and has brought further disgrace on to the use and abuse of patronage powers by the Secretary of State . ’
18 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 ) .
19 It seems fanciful to imagine that the existence of a handful of male victims and female defendants would have any impact either on the future development by the judges of the substantive law of rape or on the handling of rape cases by the police , or indeed on the way that rape is generally perceived .
20 THE treatment of pub tenants by the national brewers is a disgrace .
21 The trade union reforms , the break with the ‘ social partners ’ approach in running the economy , the abolition of a tier of local government , the imposition of far-reaching central government controls over local government finance and policies and then the replacement of household rates by the community charge , and the large-scale privatization , all mark a major departure from the conventions of post-war politics .
22 Ltd. , Gomba Exim Ltd. , Routestone Ltd. , Rathbone Hotel Ltd. and Gomba Mansions Ltd. , were advanced substantial sums of money secured on a number of security documents by the first defendant , Minories Finance Ltd. , then known as Johnson Mathey Bankers Ltd .
23 This will equal half the cost of the factory , which should be up to full production of body panels by the end of next year .
24 ( ‘ Winchester ’ ) , sought inter alia , an order of certiorari to quash a notice of exercise of intervention powers by the board of the Life Assurance and United Trust Regulatory Organisation Ltd .
25 The use of ECUs for repayment of intervention borrowings by a member country was also made easier as long as the creditor country ( i.e. the country providing the currency which was needed for foreign exchange support operations ) did not develop an unbalanced composition of reserves .
26 The West German currency continues on its upward path , in expectation of tightening of credit conditions by the Bundesbank early next year , and the buoyant prospects for the domestic economy .
27 flouting of court orders by the police .
28 Surveys of parking habits by the deparment 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory carried out before and after wheelclamping was extended to the areas of St John 's Wood and Pimlico in London in spring 1987 , show that parking on yellow lines declined by 31 and 17 per cent respectively .
29 In 1945 one could have been excused for believing that scarcely a wall could be left standing in the German capital after years of night raids by the RAF .
30 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 .
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