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

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1 In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre .
2 On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person .
3 What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ .
4 To carry these out well entails a great deal of labour by the clergy and their devoted lay helpers .
5 The reason for this is that , in Europe , the long centuries of persecution by the Christian Church had left the Western cat with a very low status .
6 In many ways this was a reaction to the centuries of domination by the Church with its demand for faith alone as the understanding of life .
7 Economically the system continued to serve the tiny landed class , most of them of Turkish rather than Egyptian origin reflecting the centuries of domination by the Ottoman Empire .
8 These differences in motivation would naturally lead to differences in formulations of objectives by the various groups .
9 On those facts C would , in my opinion , be committing a contempt of court , because he would be knowingly impeding or interfering with the administration of justice by the court in the action between A and B. ’
10 Such relative losses of population by the conurbations were paralleled in most large towns of over 100,000 people : during the 1960s their growth was only one-third of the national average ( Champion 1976 ) .
11 Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue .
12 The great days of the Macedonian Church culminated in the creation of the patriarchate of Ohrid in 976 , during the reign of Tsar Samuel ( Samuilo ) , but the whole picture changed after the defeat of Samuel by the Byzantine emperor , Basil II , in 1014 .
13 Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility .
14 In sign , it can be seen in the learner 's apparent acknowledgement of comprehension of a statement by the deaf person which the hearing learner in fact has not understood , or it involves an immediate switch of topic by the hearing learner to something in which he feels more competent , without answering the deaf person 's query .
15 In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans .
16 The increased metabolism of glutamine by the distal colon in ulcerative colitis seems probably reflects a response to inflammation and consequent hyperplasia and is in keeping with evidence that repsiratory chin enzymes are increased in ulcerative colitis .
17 The best studied models of biological membranes are those based upon aqueous dispersions of phosphatidylcholine , also known as lecithin ( one of a group of phospholipids that are important constituents of cell membranes and are involved in the metabolism of fat by the liver ) .
18 Policy-making for the closure of asylums by the North East Thames Regional Health Authority
19 I have cheated a bit by not mentioning them until now , but the first mention of women by the union does not actually occur until late January and early February , that is when the strike was already entering its final phase .
20 The general damages for conspiracy and the alternative damages for deceit are claimed to include the following : ( a ) moneys ‘ expended upon the C.M.C. ’ by the plaintiffs after the commencement of the company ; ( b ) legal costs in fighting B.M.T. ; ( c ) the stain and stigma of bankruptcy ; ( d ) loss of earnings by the plaintiffs ; ( e ) the effect upon the health of the first plaintiff ; ( f ) loss of reputation of the first plaintiff ; ( g ) distress and suffering ; ( h ) loss of opportunity to develop the centre ; and ( i ) other consequential loss .
21 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 .
22 So the loss of energy by the battery is V dq = V2 dC .
23 Another way of putting this is to say that habituation training produces a loss of effectiveness by the to-be-CS ( a reduction in ‘ conditionability ’ or ‘ associability ’ ) and that this loss is determined by the same mechanism as that controlling the loss of overt URs .
24 On the basis of their findings , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) put forward the suggestion that latent inhibition derives from a loss of effectiveness by the specific cues that characterize the CS ( and thus requires pre-exposure to that very stimulus ) , whereas neophobia is taken to be a reaction to the aversive properties of novelty per se and can be attenuated by prior exposure to any other novel event ( see also Braveman 1978 ) .
25 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 .
26 The relatively light sentence was widely interpreted as evidence of the continuing loss of ground by the hardline conservatives within the CCP , and as confirming the view that Zhao himself — under house-arrest since May 1989 — would not be tried .
27 Even at the highest pressures used here , the progressive loss of conduction by the small amounts of fluid still remaining in the pores unfortunately prevents quantitative comparisons with a dry rock containing only compact carbon and matrix minerals .
28 A gloomy atmosphere hung over the Dowty aerospace factory this afternoon — with workers who 've already survived two waves of redundancies by the firm now being told they face a third .
29 Environmentalists have attacked the plan for lacking specifics , and have warned that it may be diminished by budgetary cutbacks as a result of scrutiny by the federal Treasury .
30 The second hypothesis is that profitable entry has been deterred by the existence of barriers to entry which have arisen either as a result of actions by the incumbent public sector supplier or as a result of the technical characteristics of electricity supply .
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