Example sentences of "made by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention will be paid to the choices made by firms concerning which products to develop , in which market segments to compete , with which customers to collaborate and which sources of technical know-how to utilise in the search for competitive advantage . |
| 2 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 3 | The distinction is similar to others made by contemporaries between what subsequent jargon would call ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ societies — for instance Sir Henry Maine 's formula summarising the progress of society as ‘ from status to contract ’ . |
| 4 | We could then define this splendid species of tree as that which falls under statements made by sentences of the given grammatical sequence in the given language . |
| 5 | in financial straits , from quaere ( Lat. ) meaning ‘ inquire ’ , a mark made by tradesmen in their ledgers against the names of customers whose solvency they doubted . |
| 6 | In 1992 I was commissioned to design a plate for the Royal Academy to be made by Masons in Stoke-on-Trent , but possibly the most exciting commission is my poster for London Underground Windy Day , Brick Lane . |
| 7 | The evening was a great success , evidenced both by parents ' reactions during the course of the evening and by the positive comments made by parents on a questionnaire Rick had devised . |
| 8 | This project uses the information contained in the returns made by enumerators for the Census of England and Wales , 1881 , to investigate the origins , nationalities , ages and , to a lesser extent , the living conditions and mobility of the labourers and their families at work on railway building in the spring of 1881 . |
| 9 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 10 | The choices made by players in a game must be mutually consistent in the sense that each player 's choice is the best for him given the choices made by the others . |
| 11 | It 's learned , hieratic , almost classical music , made by players from an hereditary elite . |
| 12 | Allegations have been made by players from Valenciennes that they were offered bribes to let European and national champions Marseille win a first division match on May 20 . |
| 13 | Four specific DNA base contacts are made by residues from the basic helix , as are a large number of phosphate contacts spanning the entire recognition sequence . |
| 14 | At his death Burghley 's silver and gold plate was worth £14,000–£15,000 ; much of it probably came from gifts made by aspirants for favour . |
| 15 | on all payments made by employers for sub-contract labour . |
| 16 | Inland Revenue Statement of Practice , SP 4/86 , extends the spirit of this section to cover payments made by employers to employees for periods of attendance on a full-time educational course , including a ‘ sandwich ’ course at a university , technical college or similar educational establishment . |
| 17 | Cutwater 's charter bookings were usually made by agencies in Fort Lauderdale and London , then faxed to McIllvanney 's yard in Freeport where the boats were docked and maintained . |
| 18 | One was the real gain made by blacks under the Johnson legislation , the other the weaknesses created in the blacks " own ranks by divisions in their leadership between moderates and militants . |
| 19 | A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year . |
| 20 | 2.50 : Boys come in for orange and cornflake cakes ( made by boys in next class ) . |
| 21 | Management buy-outs in particular may lead to increases in efficiency by reducing the layers of administration and enabling key decisions to be made by managers with industry-specific experience . |
| 22 | The difficulty with all these forecasts is that the type of skills required depends on decisions made by managers about the way in which work is organised around the technology , and we thus come back to the problem identified with forecasts made about the impact of new technology on society . |
| 23 | The entity-types path and pathitem shown in Figure 4 hold all information on the trails made by users through the textbase . |
| 24 | Alter studying some thousands of searches made by users of PCL 's business studies , social sciences and communications library , we constructed a list of several hundred classes of terms which are treated as synonymous . |
| 25 | 2 ) To what extent does such information meet the demands for additional information made by users of accounts ? |
| 26 | That relationship is regarded in proprietorial terms by young children who will feel threatened by and jealous of any claims made by others on the affections of their first and own love . |
| 27 | These children showed most response when they had finished modelling and were only interested in talking about their own model very little interest in those made by others in the group . |
| 28 | However , as MacPherson and others have pointed out , such a formulation fails to come to terms with the central dilemma confronting liberalism , which is that in an unequal society , where some people come to depend on provision made by others in order to pursue their livelihood , all are not equally able to lead a fully human existence . |
| 29 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 30 | The systematic study of Celtic lands was made by Greeks under the Roman hegemony and with Roman encouragement . |