Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 7 ) On receipt of an application of a kind referred to in subsection ( 6 ) above , and until the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , the clerk of a licensing board shall make the application , together with the documents lodged therewith , available for inspection by members of the public during normal office hours . |
| 2 | Section 222 provides that accounting records are at all times to be open for inspection by officers of the company . |
| 3 | Previously many historians perceived crime as abnormal and peripheral , fit only for study by specialists in deviance . |
| 4 | Nevertheless I do not believe that philosophy is an appropriate subject for study by pupils at school . |
| 5 | Indeed , it had been a violent election campaign by post-war standards and the columns of papers like The Times were filled day after day by reports of ‘ Labour rowdyism ’ . |
| 6 | And the chapter on some uses of grammar turns out to be more about how a few parts of the grammatical system undergoing diachronic change are open for exploitation by authors at this time . |
| 7 | Usually it is a matter of payment by instalments with intervening reciprocities in the form of hospitality and counter-gifts meanwhile . |
| 8 | It concluded that " the impact of racism by Australians on the aboriginal people in this nation is not just horrific , but genocidal and must be addressed " . |
| 9 | Graff suggests that students should be familiarized with the conflict by being asked to compare The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women with a traditional anthology and come to their own conclusions . |
| 10 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 11 | This first ever lobby of Parliament by members of the deaf community was the beginning of a campaign which will end only with the enactment of appropriate legislation . |
| 12 | Will the Government recognise that the only way that many of those pensioners will have a happy and healthy retirement is through a substantial increase in the basic rate of income of at least £5 for a single person and £8 per couple , which is the commitment of the Labour party and which is supported by pensioner groups throughout the country as was shown by a recent lobby of Parliament by pensioners from the north-west which was supported by many Conservative Members ? |
| 13 | Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing . |
| 14 | Coroner Dr Paul Knapman said at Westminster Coroner 's Court : ‘ He was concerned about the events in Bosnia and the lack of action by politicians in the West . |
| 15 | At the same time , the TUC repeats its concern at allegations of unnecessary use of force by police against bona fide pickets . |
| 16 | He attached special importance to the risk that the withdrawal of this penalty might lead to an increase in crimes of violence by gangsters in large centres of population like Glasgow and London . |
| 17 | The archives contain some extremely impressive examples of recognition by administrators of the fundamental rationality of Masai pastoralism , at a time when pastoralism was generally considered to be merely a primitive prelude to the development of agriculture , and pastoralists obsolete relics of an earlier phase of human history . |
| 18 | The police action sparked two days of rioting by supporters of the women . |
| 19 | He was found slumped in a pool of blood by guards at his castle prison in Gibraltar . |
| 20 | A change of attitude by leaders of the pro-government Dutch Reformed Church ( DRC ) , which until 1986 was based on a theological defence for the policy of apartheid , was revealed at a national conference held on Nov. 5-9 in Rustenburg , 50 km west of Pretoria , of over 80 Christian churches and religious organizations . |
| 21 | A general shift of attitude by teachers towards openness arose , at least in part , from their arguments in support of a right to see reports and references on the teachers themselves . |
| 22 | But in the main I believe it is due to a change of attitude by props in particular . |
| 23 | Farming systems research which studies the complex of decision-making by farmers as a whole system implies that the researcher spends time with the farmers rather than in the research station and adapts research needs on the spot — in the farmers ' fields — to ongoing work by the farmers . |
| 24 | They included measures to limit working hours for women and children , to improve housing and public health , to make education for children compulsory , to provide for the safety of workers ( including the payment of compensation by employers in the event of accidents at work ) , and even to extend the right to strike . |
| 25 | The export of wood by merchants from Ragusa and other Dalmatian cities to the Arabs in Egypt , North Africa , Spain and Sicily contributed to the deforestation of the immediate hinterland . |
| 26 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 27 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 28 | It 's the result of years of work by scientists at a nuclear establishment which is branching out to stay financially viable . |
| 29 | It draws on the real experience of a large number of teachers , and is illustrated throughout with samples of work by students of different ages and levels . |
| 30 | New German Photography , six bodies of work by recipients of the prestigious Krupp fellowships awarded over the pasts two years ( Bill Brandt Room until 14 Mar ) . |