Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The regulations also give details of how the historic rights of inspection of accounts by the public , should be administered . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group . |
| 8 | About one-third of the staff of Albanian Radio and Television ( RTV ) went on strike from Nov. 1 in support of demands by the Independent Radio-Television Trade Union for the resignation of RTV 's directors , a demand supported by the Democratic Party , whose deputies boycotted the debate on the status of RTV in the People 's Assembly . |
| 9 | Their detentions had been widely criticized , and lawyers had threatened a boycott of the courts in support of demands by the Lagos High Court that the men be brought to court and that their trial be held in the city rather than in a remote location . |
| 10 | Here the husband had given a guarantee to the bank in support of advances by the bank to a third party . |
| 11 | In spite of reassurances by the United States President , George Bush , that there would be no reductions in the 43,000 US forces in South Korea , bilateral defence talks to this effect took place in December 1989 and January 1990 . |
| 12 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary will not reopen the Birmingham Six pub bombings case in spite of pleas by the city 's leading churchmen . |
| 14 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |
| 15 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 16 | As ‘ operator ’ , or ‘ university chemist ’ , his main duty was to demonstrate experiments and techniques in extension of lectures by the professor of chemistry — Robert Plot until 1689 , and then ( Sir ) Edward Hannes [ qq.v . ] . |
| 17 | On Friday , August 13 , I was asked by your reporter to respond to criticism of banks by the Consumers ' Association . |
| 18 | Whilst the first four roles provide the major inspiration and leadership , this role provides for implementation of ideas by the roleholders ' ability to translate general ideas and plans into practice . |