Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] by [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ! " |
| 6 | ‘ … islands of safety isolated from the rest of the town by rivers of traffic , thus in practice largely accessible only by motorised means . |
| 7 | Interruptions of the action by figures of the Alazon ( Impostor ) type , marked ‘ AL. ’ |
| 8 | Almost all schools are expected to abandon the tests in the face of the boycott by members of the National Association of Schoolmasters-Union of Women Teachers , National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers . |
| 9 | The men , who are claiming damages for false imprisonment , assault and malicious prosecution , were arrested in the early hours of the morning by officers of the Operational Support Division . |
| 10 | From this point of view deviance is not a quality of the act a person commits , but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an offender . |
| 11 | The culmination in the favouring of university provision is clearly recognisable in the 1932 Adult Education Regulations through the approval of the appointment by universities of Article 11 tutors for rural areas . |
| 12 | The study of bureaucracy has formed part of the analysis by economists of public choice in the non-market sector . |