Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was partly drowned by the clatter of footsteps on the hard stone floor of the chapel as the others began to arrive . |
| 2 | ‘ Ranulf ! ’ he roared , and was greeted by the clatter of footsteps on the stairs . |
| 3 | She came crawling across the pitch-black floor , the scuff of her knees completely muffled by the clatter of raindrops . |
| 4 | Because the flow stress of glass is very high at room temperature and because glass is very susceptible to fracture by the spread of cracks , glass , and materials like it , nearly always fracture in the familiar brittle manner and we find it difficult to imagine anything different happening . |
| 5 | He also insists that a breach of legal duty occurs only when a person chooses to violate a criminal law , this requirement of choice being signified legally by the doctrine of mens rea . |
| 6 | held that a personal injury claim by a motorist against a local highway authority was barred by the doctrine of res judicata when it could have been , and was not , included in an action by the motorist 's passenger against both , with the authority as third party and then as second defendant . |
| 7 | The tramways had suffered from a lack of maintenance , repair facilities being reduced by the manufacture of shells in Blundell Street Depot . |
| 8 | This was partly induced or caused by the development of courts at a distance from the curia but directly under the pope . |
| 9 | Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it . |
| 10 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 11 | Our research confirms that , to the degree that new entry-level social service jobs have been created , these have not often been accompanied by the development of opportunities for career advancement for the incumbents . |
| 12 | In these early years , equations similar to the Lorenz system ( Chapter 6 ) { 35 } were written down , both for lasers and masers , but failure to find a practical system in either spectral region which was adequately described by these equations , plus of course the abundance of other avenues opened up by the development of lasers , led to a rather quiescent phase lasting till the resurgence of interest in the late 197Os . |
| 13 | The roles of the endothelins have been clarified by the development of antagonists such as BQ-123 ( receptor-selective ) and PD 145065 ( non-selective ) ( ) . |
| 14 | There are prescribing interface issues between primary and secondary care which may best be resolved by the development of purchasers |
| 15 | This attitude changed by the 1950s and was emphasized by the development of cybernetics , information theory and operations research . |
| 16 | The Core Rules and SRO third tier rules operate in an integrated way , for example , by the development of exceptions to the Core Rules in third tier rules . |
| 17 | The recruitment of potential church musicians could be helped by the development of links with local high schools and colleges which offer music courses . |
| 18 | According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors . |
| 19 | The new rules still fall short of the ‘ positive consent system ’ proposed by the European Commission and agreed by the Council of Ministers last month . |
| 20 | Now it looks as if only the banking directive , adopted by the Council of Ministers in December 1989 , will be operative in time . |
| 21 | Of the many changes proposed in this review ( which is still under discussion by the Council of Ministers ) , several are designed to alter policies and aids in the LFAs . |
| 22 | This initiative is an excellent one , and if agreed by the Council of Ministers will provide the basis for supporting traditional agriculture without intensification in places such as the Somerset Levels . |
| 23 | If agreed by the Council of Ministers it will form the basis for support to the maintenance of traditional agriculture without intensification . |
| 24 | It was intended that the Commission 's proposals should be agreed by the Council of Ministers in October 1990 and be implemented by January 1992 ; but the employee participation element in particular is controversial , and animated discussions have taken place , with various Committees of the European Parliament having commented at length and suggested a plethora of amendments . |
| 25 | ( c ) European legislation Unlike United Kingdom delegated legislation , European legislation , the most typical example of which is regulations made by the Council of Ministers or ( informally ) the Commission of the European Community , enjoys the force of law within the United Kingdom without any parliamentary endorsement other than the general authorisation conferred by the European Communities Act 1972 ( see pp.136–7 below ) . |
| 26 | It is uncertain when this disagreement will be resolved , as the issue is unlikely to be discussed by the Council of Ministers at their next meeting on18 January . |
| 27 | The European Community art export arrangements agreed by the Council of Ministers last November ( The Art Newspaper No. 23 , December 1992 , pp. 1 , 33 ) are still in mid-air . |
| 28 | It has now to be adopted by the Council of Ministers to bring automatically into force three days later the Regulation of the Export of Cultural Goods to outside the European Community . |
| 29 | The U.K. government is hoping that the Directive will not be adopted by the Council of Ministers before 5 April , when the next Internal Market Council meets . |
| 30 | The Regulation governing another sensitive area , the export of ‘ cultural goods ’ from the EEC , was finally agreed in Brussels , along with the Directive ( see pp. 1–2 ) , by the Council of Ministers for the internal market , on 10 November . |