Example sentences of "of [noun pl] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those for the year to 31 December 1991 ( due to the inspector of taxes by 31 December 1992 ) were not prepared until January 1994 . |
| 2 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 3 | AFTA would be implemented through the common effective preferential tariff ( CEPT ) mechanism , which would become operational in 1993 , and under which there would be tariff reductions to under 5 per cent on 15 groups of products by 2008 . |
| 4 | In nineteen fifty three , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government issued their Design Town and Village manual and because of difficulties attending design concepts , the manual was made up of essays by eminent planners on various topics , with the full imprimatur of the minister . |
| 5 | Other honours to Honorary Fellows include the award of the CBE to Professor Tillotson , and the presentation to Lady MacDougall ( Margaret Hall ) of a collection of essays by former pupils and associates , entitled Competitions and Markets . |
| 6 | Adler and Asquith ( 1981 ) edited a very good collection of essays by different authors on welfare and discretion . |
| 7 | The second is Making Space : Women and the man-made environment ( Matrix , 1984 ) , a collection of essays by feminist architects who live and work in Britain . |
| 8 | The planning of operations by those who are going to carry them out , obviates delay and misunderstandings which happen to be caused by intermediate stages , and makes for the speed of execution which in any operation of this kind is an incalculable asset . |
| 9 | There have been a number of attempts by central government to intervene in the region to stem the loss of population , dating from the 1886 Crofters Act ( Turnock 1969 ) . |
| 10 | It was Stalin 's unfortunate deviation which led to the whole series of attempts by Western European Marxists to return-to-Marx — the major examples in France being Sartre and Althusser , and in Germany the Frankfurt School . |
| 11 | ABERDEEN fish processors are to go ahead with an export drive to France this week , in spite of attempts by French fishermen to block the import of supplies . |
| 12 | It follows the collapse of attempts by British Airways to buy a large shareholding last September , and the ill-fated effort to link Sabena with KLM to create a carrier called Sabena World Airlines . |
| 13 | The minority DNSF administration was accepted by the Assembly of Deputies by 260 votes to 203 . |
| 14 | Discharges from refining and use of oil fell from 300,000 tonnes in 1980 to 60,000 tonnes in 1992 , exceeding targets for the reduction of emissions by 2000 . |
| 15 | Although the number of suicides by other methods rose , this was not sufficient to compensate for the fall in deaths due to coal gas poisoning — indeed , a reduction in suicide of over 30% was observed . |
| 16 | Enjoying immunities from various forms of taxation and from administrative interference by the State , the monasteries were at a distinct advantage in accumulating land and retaining scarce peasant labour , and they benefited from a flow of bequests by repentant sons of the Church . |
| 17 | The Hand That Rocks The Cradle sets back the cause of nannies by 50 years — but boy , what a film . |
| 18 | The commitment on global warming fell short of calls by European countries and Canada for specific ceilings on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases causing global warming . |
| 19 | The front page news continued to amaze me throughout the week : and article on how women will need another 1000 years to match the political and economic clout of men , followed by one on how President Clinton has increased the sales of saxophones by 15 per cent ( you can now order your own limited presidential edition 80 gold-plated for only $795 ) . |
| 20 | They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities . |
| 21 | Survival International , in co-operation with Minewatch , has published details of activities by some of the world 's major industrial companies which it claims are responsible for causing serious damage to the traditional lands of tribal people in the Americas . |
| 22 | The Minute Book of the union strike committee reckoned the number of strike-breakers by 11 February 1872 , that is three months into the strike , as 404:253 " foreign comps " and 70 " home comps " ; 43 " foreign machine men " and 39 " home machine men " . " |
| 23 | Now attention shifted away from Meehan and on to Waddell , then back in Barlinnie for stabbing a man with a knife and a saw ; and after six months of investigations by two senior police officers , he was arrested , brought to Edinburgh and charged with the murder of Mrs Ross . |
| 24 | During the 1970s Lima had at least four times been the object of investigations by parliamentary commissions which had looked into his connections , as a member of local government , with the local construction sector in the 1960s . |
| 25 | Private parties are welcome out of hours by prior arrangement . |
| 26 | Hence the importance of audits by competent and independent auditors — to which we turn in the next chapter . |
| 27 | This research project investigates the development of spatial cognition in early childhood , focusing on three areas ; 1 ) spatial orientation in 2-5 year olds , 2 ) use of coordinate reference systems by 4-7 year olds , and 3 ) interpretation and use of maps by 4-7 year olds . |
| 28 | If we pursue the doctrine of the orogeny/regression couple , then we must also expect the corollary that the wearing down of mountain ranges and the spread of continents by marginal sedimentation must lead to widespread transgressions . |
| 29 | To establish a balance between the demand and availability of skills by timely retraining . |
| 30 | Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts . |