Example sentences of "in [noun sg] of [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you did at the Swan you will separate your collection sending one portion to me and retaining the other in case of accidents by sea … |
| 2 | WHEN Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie went to a party in London , a posse of armed police stood by in case of attacks by Muslim fanatics . |
| 3 | Included in this last group is , for example , the ‘ insurance principle ’ in social security , adopted in variety of ways by various governments who clearly attempted to learn from each other 's experiences . |
| 4 | Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here the husband had given a guarantee to the bank in support of advances by the bank to a third party . |
| 8 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 9 | A father-of-two , Sergeant Bill Forth , 34 , died early yesterday after being stabbed in spite of efforts by a colleague and householders to save him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In spite of claims by some delegates that a settlement was imminent , prices suffered a setback after a report that Nigeria would not accept a cut in its output of more than 50,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , compared with the 75,000 bpd which it was reported previously to have offered . |
| 13 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 14 | In spite of complaints by business about the pound 's appreciation ( in May 1979 its effective exchange rate was 81.3 per cent and in January 1982 it was 92 per cent of its 1975 rate ) the government came to rely on a strong pound as part of its anti-inflation strategy . |
| 15 | ABERDEEN fish processors are to go ahead with an export drive to France this week , in spite of attempts by French fishermen to block the import of supplies . |
| 16 | The Home Secretary will not reopen the Birmingham Six pub bomb case in spite of pleas by leading churchmen . |
| 17 | The Home Secretary will not reopen the Birmingham Six pub bombings case in spite of pleas by the city 's leading churchmen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The opposition to Ershad remained fragmented and divided during 1989 , in spite of appeals by some opposition figures for a united front against him . |
| 20 | Planning permission has been granted by Radnorshire District Council , in spite of objections by groups including the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ] . |
| 23 | The fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina , coupled with the forced expulsions of one ethnic group by another ( in particular of Moslems by Serb forces ) — a practice widely referred to as " ethnic cleansing " , precipitated a major increase in the numbers of people fleeing their homes in June and July . |
| 24 | Finally , project involvement has had knock-on effects in introducing many teachers to the notion of study skills and information-handling skills , in cross-fertilisation of ideas by visits to other project schools , and , finally , in the cascade effect of departmental representatives on library committees returning to their colleagues with the insights gained from their project experience . |