Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 3 | In Britain , the role of fragmented political authority in muddying the formation of objectives is illustrated by conflicts within the present Conservative government over BR 's electrification plans , with close advisers of the Prime Minister , and according to some accounts the Treasury , undermining the efforts of the Department of Transport to secure cabinet approval . |
| 4 | He became a collector with a truly worldwide reputation , the owner of a unique gallery of works by artists of the Russian Avant-garde . |
| 5 | In his thirty-two years as a gallerist in Cologne , Reinz has conducted a specialised programme consisting of work by Nay , Fautrier and Poliakoff , and by artists of the German Informel School of the 1950s and 60s : Hoehme , Gutz , Bruning , Schumacher , Dahmen and Sonderborg . |
| 6 | There are in the Musée two memorable and characteristic El Greco portraits , of a duke all in black and a cardinal ; some excellent Ingres , including a full-length portrait of the depressing King Charles X , looking depressing , and an ample-backed Baigneuse or Woman Bathing ; a Goya self portrait , among other pictures by him , making him look mild and harmless ; some British pictures , by Constable , Lawrence , Reynolds and Raeburn ; a Géricault and an agitated Delacroix showing Job tormented by Demons ; and some fine drawings , of which Bonn at had a most notable collection , too large to be displayed in toto , by artists from the early Italians onwards . |
| 7 | Demonstrations of up to 100,000 people before the elections were accompanied by calls from the Azerbaijani People 's Front for their boycott and for a general strike . |
| 8 | In fact , financial targets might be seen as equivalent to constraints imposed by shareholders in a public company who require dividends of a certain level ( or indeed as related to constraints on regulated companies who must earn no more than a certain return on capital ; see chapter 5 ) . |
| 9 | The Commission is vigilant in investigating , and severely punishes ‘ naked horizontal cartels ’ such as price fixing and market sharing and the abuse by groups with a dominant position in the market in any substantial area of the Community ( Article 86 ) . |
| 10 | Like pot-bellied Vietnamese pigs , the goats are fast becoming trendy pets , changing hands at up to $1,000 a time and catered for by groups like the International Fainting Goat Association ( newsletter : Fall in Love With Fainters ) and the Tennessee Fainting Goat Association . |
| 11 | The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly . |
| 12 | On Oct. 22 Mohorita was recalled by deputies from the Federal Assembly Presidium , although the reason cited was that he had breached protocol by chewing gum during a speech to the Assembly on Sept. 13 by France 's President Mitterrand . |
| 13 | Its detailed provisions , however , provoked one of the most serious conflicts yet seen in the Assembly and a mass walk-out on Oct. 18 by deputies from the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 14 | At the kind of prices Fiat are asking , it does represent a more appealing alternative in the market sector otherwise occupied by eccentrics from the Far East and Commie cast-offs . |
| 15 | This is partly fuelled by an increased concern by enterprises with their environments , partly by an increase in the volume of potentially relevant information being published , and partly by improvements in the physical communication of information from source to recipient made possible by advances in IT . |
| 16 | Just as with the predicate qualifiers , the occupation by postverbals of a syntactic position more commonly taken by an adverb seems to accord well with the fact that a favoured form for questioning them is how ? , unless pre-empted by a question based on pragmatic categories such as what colour ? . |
| 17 | The importance of youth was highlighted by proposals for an annual youth conference and the establishment of youth sections . |
| 18 | Camra is also worried by proposals from the Dutch brewers Heineken and their rivals , the makers of Grolsch , to buy into the makers of Pilsner Urquell ( Original ) , based in the Czech town which lent its name to the brewing process . |
| 19 | Two US warships — the 18,000-ton assault ship Tripoli and the 9,600-ton guided missile cruiser Princeton — were both damaged by mines in the northern Gulf on Feb. 18 . |
| 20 | Aimed at reversing the decline since the mid-1970s in PCI membership and electoral support , the creation of the new party was marked by divergences between the traditional left wing and a social democratic tendency . |
| 21 | The ceremonies were overshadowed by disagreements between the federal and Slovak authorities , reflecting tension surrounding the imminent dissolution of the federation " a development which Dubcek had strongly opposed . |
| 22 | The inflammatory state is maintained by interactions between the vascular endothelium and cells of the immune system , one of the common final pathways being activation of arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 23 | As use of GF rod and tubing expanded rapidly , and ripstop nylon became available off-the-roll through the 1980s , new concepts were fertilized by exponents of the multi-cellular type of kite , such as the Tetrahedral . |
| 24 | After World War One , in the second phase of the psychoanalysis , when he was concerned with the analysis of ego , anxiety became a sense of danger in the ego , and the ego felt anxiety when it was threatened , and as a result , there was three sorts of anxiety neurotic anxiety , when the ego was threatened by the drives of the id moral anxiety , when it was threatened by punishment from the super ego , and realistic anxiety , when it was threatened by dangers from the outside world . |
| 25 | Mosley justified the turn to fascism as the result of the increased disruptive tactics used by opponents of the New Party . |
| 26 | The fact that the assassination coincided with the release in Lebanon of the British hostage John McCarthy [ see p. 38405 ] fuelled speculation that it had been sanctioned by opponents of the Iranian government critical of its current conciliatory attitude towards the West [ see pp.38212 ; 38309 ] and of its role in pressing for an early resolution of the hostage crisis . |
| 27 | Given that these technologies are consistently promoted by opponents as a benign alternative to the dangers of nuclear power , it is perhaps not surprising that they are marginalized within the Authority 's remit . |
| 28 | The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework . |
| 29 | Many also were prepared to accept state welfare reform if it was to be truly redistributive from rich to poor , rather than financed by taxes on the poor themselves . |
| 30 | Increasingly the Scottish war and the defence of the north had to be financed by taxes from the southern clergy and laity . |