Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the elections , there were reports that senior religious figures , including Karrubi , had appealed for unity between opposing factions by calling for obedience to Khamenei . |
| 2 | Repeated government " failure " results not only in a withdrawal of support from specific administrations by the electorate but eventually disillusionment with the institutions and processes of political democracy itself . |
| 3 | John Bannon , the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) Premier of South Australia since 1982 , resigned on Sept. 1 in acknowledgment of responsibility for huge losses by the State Bank of South Australia . |
| 4 | Legislation in 1970 was designed to raise the quality of equipment in small firms by setting minimum standards of quality control and subsidizing regional networks of advice on technical and managerial efficiency . |
| 5 | On Aug. 18 the Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall raised the issue of compensation for cancelled contracts by East German companies . |
| 6 | Reports of rape of tribal women by security force members continue to be received by AI , and non-combatant tribal members were also subjected to other forms of torture during 1989 and 1990 . |
| 7 | A prominent part in this agitation was played by the Poor Law Guardians of Poplar through public statements by its leading Labour Guardians , George Lansbury and Will Crooks ( both prominent Labour politicians ) . |
| 8 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 9 | The proposals included the far-sighted proposals to amend the Legal Aid Regulations , so as to show the Bar 's determination that public funds should be efficiently used ; also to counter any suggestion of abuse of public funds by the Bar . |
| 10 | Although the Nursery is only a small unit , it is very much a part of the whole School and can therefore give to those pupils in the upper Senior School , who intend to pursue a child-orientated career , the opportunity of contact with young children by assisting in the nursery on a regular timetabled basis , while the Nursery children can benefit from their contact with their older ‘ brothers and sisters ’ within the Heriot 's Community . |
| 11 | If management can obtain high levels of output from individual workers by designing jobs , such as those on assembly lines , which force people to work hard then output may be high at the expense of job satisfaction . |
| 12 | ‘ THERE IS A HIGHER GOAL than the reduction of transmission of HIV , and that goal is the elimination of use of illegal narcotics by injection , period . ’ |
| 13 | The most striking feature of the post-war period has been the increase of use of educational establishments by all socio-economic groups . |
| 14 | In a near-fatal aperçu , Armstrong 's comment on the civil servant 's need to be ‘ economical with the truth ’ seemed to set the seal on a growing process of encroachment on individual freedoms by a strong-minded , centralist government . |
| 15 | We have developed a simple , rapid and cheap method for the isolation of DNA from various sources by a further development of the silica binding method of Boom et al. |
| 16 | Thus Stanley ( 1973 ) analyses the effect of competition on evolutionary rates by comparing mammals with bivalve molluscs . |
| 17 | A concert of music on literary themes by the Pastores Ensemble with Darren Jameson ( piano ) , actors and dancers . |
| 18 | An indication of what was to follow was given on 12 June when Roberto Agramonte , a moderate who was in favour of conciliation with the United States , was replaced as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by radical nationalist Raúl Roa . |
| 19 | He will be given the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Syracuse University , New York , which lost 35 students in the terrorist bombing . |
| 20 | It is our intention to add to the literature on the dynamics of transition within voluntary organisations by studying the NMGC in detail over time . |
| 21 | In fact , we give a kind of reality to imagined creations by feeling these emotions ; in a way we live an imagined situation because it affects us emotionally . |
| 22 | The simultaneous cultural , racial and educational panic and white backlash , moreover , led to a policy of dispersal of black students by bussing , initiated in South all and gaining DES support and subsequent endorsement by the Labour Education Secretary , Anthony Crosland . |
| 23 | The Confederation of British Industry is to review the provision of finance to small firms by examining the difficulties they face in borrowing . |
| 24 | The Renewable Energy Advisory Group , set up to advise the government , has recommended that Britain aim to produce 1,500 megawatts of energy from renewable sources by the year 2000 . |
| 25 | In response to a pervasive loss of faith in mid-Victorian economic liberalism , a string of measures had been put through Parliament by Conservative and Liberal Governments in concession to the case against unregulated laissez-faire and for intervention on social grounds by the state . |
| 26 | The morphology of passive margins is discussed in general terms by Ollier ( 1985 ) , and with respect to specific regions by Ollier ( 1982 ) ( eastern Australia ) , Summerfield ( 1985a ) ( Africa ) , Ollier and Marker ( 1985 ) ( southern Africa ) and Ollier and Powar ( 1985 ) ( India ) . |
| 27 | Mr. Secretary Heseltine , supported by The Prime Minister , Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Newton , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. Michael Portillo and Mr. Robert Key , presented a Bill to provide for certain local authorities to levy and collect a new tax , to be called council tax ; to abolish community charges ; to make further provision with respect to local government finance ( including provision with respect to certain grants by local authorities ) ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 3 . ] |
| 28 | The US Army may have dumped radioactive waste from nuclear bomb programmes in Love Canal , many years before it became the site for disposal of toxic chemicals by a commercial concern . |
| 29 | Mann 's decision to enter into talks came in response to repeated offers by Shekhar 's new government to open a dialogue on Punjab . |
| 30 | In a statement broadcast on March 4 , Gqozo said that the Army had acted in response to repeated requests by the people of the homeland . |