Example sentences of "by the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 2 | It was decided I should go to special school and my mother 's objections were mollified by the proof of the academic success that many girls achieved there . |
| 3 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 4 | The courts may be impressed by the expertise of the social workers ; alternatively , they may tend to side with parents faced with the power of the Social Services Departments . |
| 5 | AN accusation made yesterday that the British Amateur Athletic Board was manipulated into bankruptcy , is to be examined by the solicitors of the Amateur Athletic Association . |
| 6 | The second part of Acts is dominated by the mission to the Gentiles , under the leadership of Paul . |
| 7 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 8 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |
| 9 | Innovations crossed frontiers more quickly in an age of easy communication , and processes could be exported by the entrepreneur to the place where they would find the resources and markets they needed . |
| 10 | The debate itself was marred by the inexperience of the speakers . |
| 11 | Such proceedings received statutory sanction by the Ordinance of the Forest in 1306 : Edward I decreed that : |
| 12 | Bernice was blown off her feet by the shockwave from the explosion . |
| 13 | Some of the gains made by the nobility in the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s have already been discussed , but the opportunities for enrichment were open to men of all ranks . |
| 14 | The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons . |
| 15 | There is a Women 's Institute branch ( the W.I. — known , inevitably , as the Witches International by the habitués of the Smoke Room of the Red Lion ) , a Choral Group , and an Amateur Dramatic Society . |
| 16 | " A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands . |
| 17 | The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’ |
| 18 | In 1536 , when the court of augmentations was established to deal with the lands acquired by the Crown through the dissolution of the smaller monasteries , Stumpe was appointed a receiver for north Wales , with a generous travelling allowance besides his salary of £20 p.a . |
| 19 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |
| 20 | A comparison of the statements with the evidence of the two important witnesses reveals a small but not insignificant number of discrepancies , only one of which was disclosed by the Crown to the defence . |
| 21 | Questions of privilege are themselves justiciable and have , on occasion , been referred by the Crown at the instance of the House in question to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; what approach would be proper in such a circumstance ? |
| 22 | One was the court of the Duchy of Lancaster , which administered the lands gained by the Crown at the accession of Henry of Lancaster in 1399 . |
| 23 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 24 | Judges were appointed by the Crown on the advice of the Lord Chancellor , and magistrates by the Lord Chancellor on the recommendations of locally based advisory committees . |
| 25 | Because of the ranking procedure , shares of income run from 0 to 100 per cent as all income must be held by the total of the income-holding units . |
| 26 | The range of human tasks has already been indicated by the description of the extremes of procedural and diagnostic task analysis . |
| 27 | This suggestion appears to be supported by the description of the demon monster Asakku , with his single-eyed solar head in the epic LUGAL UD ME-LÁM-bi Nir-GÁL . |
| 28 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 29 | Obviously , these implicatures are not yielded by the description of the occasion as a performance . |
| 30 | ‘ How is it going ? ’ he asked eventually , hostility not quite masked by the neutrality of the question . |