Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] by " in BNC.

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1 One of the signs of the eclipse of classics by English was the foundation in 1907 of the English Association which was to propound very effectively the view that the new discipline had become " our finest vehicle for a genuine humanistic education " and that " its importance in this respect was growing with the disappearance of Latin and Greek from the curricula of our schools and universities . "
2 He was replaced as General Secretary of the Council of Ministers by Niko Gjyzari , who was in turn replaced as Chair of the State Planning Commission by Bujar Kolaneci .
3 Bou Thang and Chea Soth were replaced as Vice-Chairs of the Council of Ministers by Sar Kheng and Norodom Chakkrapong .
4 The research will involve the study of official records kept of the exercise of powers , observation of the handling of cases by the police , and interviews with police officers of all ranks ; it will be conducted in three separate subdivisions presenting different kinds of policing problems .
5 Pensions give some indication of the level of benefits by the early seventies .
6 the unilateral assumption of the conduct of matters by the son must be distinguished from the son acting as agent for plaintiffs in the procuring of the signatures of his parents to the deeds .
7 PRESIDENT Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania last night defied international condemnation of the massacre of demonstrators by his security forces at the weekend as reports indicated tens of thousands had again taken to the streets of in Timisoara , escalating the crisis .
8 A ceremony on Oct. 5 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar near Kiev was attended by Jewish , German and US delegations .
9 When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so .
10 The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood .
11 It was the product of an alliance between Parliament and lawyers and of the intimidation of judges by the House of Commons .
12 In fact , in these cases the division of labour seems to be the product of the exploitation of women by men , rather than its cause .
13 This then allowed not only the efficient re-cycling of nutrients , enhancing plant growth , but also the opening of a ‘ Pandora 's Box ’ in terms of the exploitation of plants by animals .
14 Edward , installed by then with his brother in the Garden Tower , was informed of the turn of events by Brackenbury , the protector not having visited his nephews since the day he had accepted the crown at the Guildhall .
15 They are the result of recall and not of the composition of components by the application of syntactic rules .
16 Yet pupils can not get on the wavelength of the experience of others by bracketing out all aspects of their own .
17 Proposals for tax adjustments included the replacement of the taxation of assets by a profits tax .
18 A shortfall of over 300,000 tonnes of rice was projected for the 1990/91 harvest , a result in part of drought and flooding , but also because of the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity .
19 ( It also dismissed as " totally false " the claim that babies had died because of the looting of incubators by Iraqi troops . )
20 Next the isolation and purification of peptides are dealt with , followed by the elucidation of the structure of peptides by using amino acid analysis and sequencing .
21 Irigaray 's analyses of the use of pronouns by hysterics and obsessives ( 1966:29–31 , 1967:55–68 ) reveal that whereas obsessives are unable to say ‘ me ’ because they are caught in a specular image of themselves in which there is no object , only an undifferentiated self ( Irigaray 's ‘ on ’ ) , hysterics are unable to say ‘ I ’ because they are unable to complete the trajectory through the other that would allow them access to full subjectivity .
22 A crude analysis of the use of doctors by the various socio-economic groups shows , for both males and females , either a similar or a lower use by the semi-skilled and unskilled groups than other groups .
23 Examples given are : a league table of the use of each title in the main library and the short loans collection , to determine titles that should be duplicated or marked for reference use ; a record of items never used , for relegation purposes ; records of the use of books by subject , including interdisciplinary use , for purposes of fund allocation ; and analysis of the use of books by date of publication , to determine obsolescence parameters .
24 Examples given are : a league table of the use of each title in the main library and the short loans collection , to determine titles that should be duplicated or marked for reference use ; a record of items never used , for relegation purposes ; records of the use of books by subject , including interdisciplinary use , for purposes of fund allocation ; and analysis of the use of books by date of publication , to determine obsolescence parameters .
25 Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography .
26 Schneider ( 1974 ) explains how male silk moth pheromones are received ; and Wilson ( 1971 ) gives an account of the use of pheromones by ants .
27 Work schedules are much misunderstood mainly because of the appearance of lists by cleaning product suppliers which have certain similarities .
28 In his Historia Regum Angliae ( generally a work of little value ) there is an isolated and indignant digression on current depopulation in his own shire , prompted by his description of the harrying of villages by William the Conqueror .
29 She could hear a hedgehog moving ‘ noiselessly ’ in the undergrowth , distinguish trees by the rustle of their leaves in the wind and the feel of their bark , and know of the nearness of flowers by their scents .
30 Cargolux argued that the Rules of the Supreme Court ( Order 11 ) justified service upon Lies out of the jurisdiction , given Section 1 of the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 , article 34 and article 39 paragraph 2 CMR .
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