Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copies of contracts of service ( unless expiring or determinable by the employing company without payment of compensation within one year ) of any Director of the Company with the Company or any of its subsidiaries will be available for the inspection by members at the registered office of the Company during usual business hours on any week day ( Saturday excepted ) from the date of this notice until the date of the Annual General Meeting and on the day of the Meeting at Hotel Conrad for 15 minutes prior to and until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting . |
| 2 | Those Acts provided not for full representation of the peerage of Scotland in the new House , but for the election by peers of Scotland ( who were not also peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ) of 16 of their number to sit . |
| 3 | The decision was taken in spite of an almost three-to-one ballot for the strike by workers at the Albion works in Scotstoun . |
| 4 | The 64-year-old minister was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church , south London , where he has spent the past 15 years campaigning tirelessly against racism and working to improve race relations within inner cities . |
| 5 | To a large extent of course the Queen was able to make up for the loss by grants of double , triple , and even quadruple subsidies , but in doing so she may have encouraged resistance . |
| 6 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 7 | On Saturday she was chosen as the candidate by members of the Euro-constituency which the party held at the last election in 1990 by just 2,977 votes . |
| 8 | The Indian team , told about the replay by team-mates in the dressing room , made animated appeals to Bucknor to consult the third umpire Barry Lambson , but to no avail . |
| 9 | Most elite theorists also point to the limits imposed upon the freedom of choice of the non-elite through the perpetration by elites of a stratified and inegalitarian access to social , economic , bureaucratic and political resources . |
| 10 | A placard carried through the city by Women for Peace was changed overnight , with the addition of two deaths to the total killed since 1969 . |
| 11 | In Mozambique in 1990 250,000 people were driven off the land by clashes between government and rebel forces . |
| 12 | Hybrid vigour may well have contributed to the robustness with which the ranch escapees established themselves so widely , quickly spreading along the waterways and coasts and filling a niche left virtually empty after the removal by gamekeepers of otters , stoats and polecats . |
| 13 | BTR had successfully mounted takeover bids for Thomas Tilling in 1983 and for Dunlop in 1985 , improving the performances of each company after the merger by improvements in productivity . |
| 14 | There the police said that Lucy Chamberlain had been identified after the shooting by documents in her handbag and by her distinctive clothing ; clothing later confirmed by her father in a telephone call from the police . |
| 15 | MOSCOW — Nagorny Karabakh , already effectively partitioned between its feuding Armenian and Azerbaijani communities into two armed camps , was yesterday facing further turmoil after the shooting by troops of an Armenian demonstrator in the capital , Stepanakert , on Tuesday , Rupert Cornwell writes . |
| 16 | The deal follows the recent announcement of the production of a pure form of the hormone by researchers from the institute , using genetic engineering techniques . |
| 17 | A recurrent theme in the literature is that the position of business in relation to government differs from that of other interest groups by virtue of the possession by companies of ‘ real ’ power — social decision-making power as it has been termed above . |
| 18 | That way the industrial decline of Britain , deplored through most of the century by Presidents of the British Association and eminent men of science generally , would be halted . |
| 19 | SINGER Sam Sorono , who appeared on the last series of Granada TV 's Stars in their Eyes competition impersonating Tom Jones and again last Saturday has been voted Vocalist of the Year by readers of the national club magazine Club Mirror . |
| 20 | Ollier ( 1981 ) provides an introduction to several topics discussed in this chapter , and my own brief reviews in Progress in Physical Geography ( Summerfield , 1986 , 1988 , 1989 ) try to relate some of the work by geophysicists to problems of landscape development . |
| 21 | One view of marine erosion would regard it as active only in the early stages of cliff development ( A to C in Fig. 8.12 ) , while at later stages the energy of the waves is dissipated on the increasingly wide rock platform so that erosion at the base of the cliff becomes ineffective , a fact attested by the degradation of the cliff by agents of subaerial weathering ( D and E in Fig. 8.12 ) . |
| 22 | Those transactions were two-fold , namely , the acquisition of the exclusive rights of granting sub-licences together with the relevant films and the grant of those sub-licences together with provision of the film by contracts with individual customers . |
| 23 | The march had been called by Moscow 's mayor , Gavriil Popov , as part of the campaign by radicals against Ryzhkov 's approach to economic reform [ see above ] . |
| 24 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 25 | But before long , a correspondent of the STC was pointing out that " 60 to 70 per cent of the fair intruders are being sedulously drilled into the p's and q's of the art by members of our own society ! " |
| 26 | The second objection was that in recognising such a right of recovery , the House of Lords would overstep the boundary that separated the legitimate development of the law by judges from the laws developed by legislation . |
| 27 | If anything , they seemed rather receptive to the idea of talking about invasion of the locality by monsters from deep space . |
| 28 | Your flag is being taken to the top of the hill by bands like Def Leppard and you 're back at home going , ‘ Aaah … f**k 'em — they sold out . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ … islands of safety isolated from the rest of the town by rivers of traffic , thus in practice largely accessible only by motorised means . |
| 30 | ‘ It does not appear to me , however , that it has been established that there was sufficient use of the track by cars in the early 1930s to provide the foundation of a claim for a public right of way for vehicles . ’ |