Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tuzla , UN aid workers were preparing to evacuate Serb civilians as part of attempts by the Unprofor commander in Bosnia , French General Philippe Morillon , to restart aid convoys . |
| 2 | Unpublished figures compiled as part of research by the Department of the Environment reveal that acid rain is causing more extensive damage in Britain than previous estimates had suggested . |
| 3 | Students accepted on to the Diploma in Social Work will be considered for payment of fees by the Department of Health and Social Services only if they are allocated a quota place by the University . |
| 4 | Mr. Utley submits on behalf of the board that , on the true construction of section 18(1) , power to make an order for payment of costs by the board is only exercisable in favour of a person who is an unassisted party at the time when the relevant proceedings are finally decided , i.e. who is not then receiving legal aid . |
| 5 | However , this is scant comfort as it simply brings the dates for payment of tax by the self employed such as partners on to a more current basis similar to that applicable to companies and PAYE employees . |
| 6 | Payments made ex gratia or as compensation for loss of office by the vendor of the business will not usually be deductible by the vendor because they are made in connection with the discontinuance of the trade and not for the purpose of enabling the company to carry on its trade . |
| 7 | There are even stories — apocryphal , perhaps — that her children 's toys are washed after visits from their little friends for fear of contamination by the common horde . |
| 8 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 9 | Treatment for all these patients was standardised and consisted of correction of dehydration by the administration of World Health Organisation glucose oral rehydration solution supplemented by parenteral fluids where necessary . |
| 10 | The denial of the importance of freedom of speech by the Chief Justice in Duncan v. Jones suggests that it is open to the constable to take the surest means to prevent a breach of the peace , and can take whatever steps he chooses . |
| 11 | The regulations also give details of how the historic rights of inspection of accounts by the public , should be administered . |
| 12 | The U-boat activity and the occupation of part of France by the enemy were responsible for the food shortages , which sent prices soaring . |
| 13 | A study of a bakery in south-east England uncovered a highly organised system of stealing from work and of fiddling of customers by the bread salesmen ( Ditton , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | But this resistance is weakened in the present context by allegations of misuse of power by the security services . |
| 15 | If the dangers of loss of prestige by the discipline are to be averted , James urged , not only must new measures such as joint schools and interdisciplinary studies be introduced , but the " catastrophic decline " in the medieval side of English studies must be reversed . |
| 16 | This was said to constitute ‘ a great violation of our national rights … and non-observation of attitude of neutrality by the British disarmament forces ’ . |
| 17 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 18 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 19 | The Habsburgs acquired Styria after the defeat of Ottokar of Bohemia by the Holy Roman Empire at the battle of Marchfeld in 1278 . |
| 20 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 21 | He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University in July 1990 . |
| 22 | Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering by the University in 1983 he will confer Honorary Degrees , following his installation in the Great Hall , on the highly acclaimed concert pianist John Briggs ; Peter Flesher , Managing Director of Allied Colloids ; Sir Gordon Jones , Chairman of Yorkshire Water and Frank Mumby , former Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds University and piano tutor to Sir Trevor . |
| 23 | Evidently , the hoped-for resolution of the locus of expression of LTP by the application of quantal analysis has not yet been achieved . |
| 24 | APPEAL ( No. 6 of 1991 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda by the plaintiff , Horace Brenton Kelly , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) given on 30 November 1989 allowing an appeal by the defendants , Margot Cooper and Helen Cooper ( trading as Cooper Associates , a firm ) from the judgment of Hull J. delivered on 14 November 1988 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) , whereby he awarded the plaintiff $200,000 damages for breach of contract and made a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , and the defendants ' counterclaim for commission was dismissed . |
| 25 | The slow progress towards acceptance of television by the Commons has been examined by Dr Bob Franklin in previous articles in this journal . |
| 26 | In a report published on Jan. 9 , 1990 , the human rights organization Amnesty International detailed 128 cases of maltreatment of detainees by the police over the past five years . |
| 27 | This was partly for ease of administration by the development officers who had to take into account the cost of all the services received by the elderly person when designing a package of care , but primarily because this was a new initiative : by enabling the development officers to take on difficult and complex cases without being unduly restricted by considerations of cost , it was hoped to test the limits to this form of community care . |
| 28 | The widespread charge that Bush was engaging in a form of McCarthyism was supported when the Washington Post of Oct. 14 revealed that the State Department had ordered a search of Clinton 's passport file and of the archives of the US embassies in London and Oslo for evidence of misconduct by the Democratic candidate . |
| 29 | AUSTRALIA will replace the Queen as head of state by the end of the century , premier Paul Keating forecast yesterday . |
| 30 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |