Example sentences of "on [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research project focuses on attempts by local authorities to intervene in instances of rural land use competition , and to evaluate how effective their involvement has been . |
| 2 | Straight lines were drawn on maps by Whitehall bureaucrats to represent the borders of countries , and concerns for the disappearing wildlife were manifest in the establishment of National Parks and reserves to protect wildlife and in the expulsion of the villagers from their traditional homes to be re-settled outside the borders of a park . |
| 3 | Morales , too , followed the Netherland tradition ; of his 22 Masses , two are on ‘ L'homme arme ’ and others are modelled on motets by Gombert , Mouton , Richafort , Verdelot , and Josquin 's ‘ Mille regretz ’ , only two on Spanish villancicos . |
| 4 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 5 | We would make our way past The Three Crowns Inn where people sat on forms by wooden tables to enjoy a summer 's evening drink . |
| 6 | the development of transport and communications opened up distant US/European markets — reliance on exports by most Asian NICs as their domestic markets were too small ; |
| 7 | Andrea 's ricercari on chansons by Crecquillon , Janequin , and their contemporaries differ markedly from his actually so called canzoni alla francese on the same songs ; these are ordinary ornamented transcriptions whereas the ricercari are free compositions on the successive phrases of the melody . |
| 8 | The meeting was unable to reach a consensus on requests by some members that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be exempt from the arms embargo applied to the area [ see also p. 39240 ] , In a compromise , the final declaration noted these requests and called on the UN Security Council to continue to consider the question . |
| 9 | During the February 1975 House of Commons debate on plans by the Wilson Government to increase the civil list allowances to the royal family , Kinnock , then an MP of five years standing , launched into a characteristically blustering attack on ‘ the senior executives of what I may call ‘ the Crown Limited ’ , who were ‘ outrageously overpaid ’ . |
| 10 | A man at the sharp end of the drive to put information technology to work in Britain , Cracknell was commenting on plans by a big American semiconductor firm to expand its operations in the town . |
| 11 | Abruptly it proclaimed itself a tribe , featured all twenty-three staff , tribe members on the cover , reported on the growth of the yippies , America 's politicized hippies , and on plans by Sid Rawle 's Hyde Park Diggers to move to the country . |
| 12 | Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . |
| 13 | Building on investigations by Reginald Allender Smith , who had detected what he felt were underground streams crossing beneath standing stones , Guy Underwood distinguished three types of dowsable line in the landscape : ‘ water-lines ’ , ‘ track-lines ’ and ‘ aquastats ’ . |
| 14 | — Stephen Green , chairman of the Conservative Family Campaign , on proposals by the Scottish Law Commission to outlaw parental violence , while permitting ‘ safe smacks ’ |
| 15 | A positive United Kingdom approach — good for Britain and good for Europe — could win us partners and allies at Maastricht who could support Britain 's positive proposals , could associate themselves with us on proposals by others that we oppose , and could be counterparts in the give and take involved in any negotiation . |
| 16 | The Home Office originally announced that no prisoners had been injured , but it was finally admitted that 54 had been , and that there had been criminal assaults on prisoners by staff . |
| 17 | Others believe that change is more likely to come from pressure being exerted on decision-makers by those with a vested interest in the likely outcomes of the introduction of new technology . |
| 18 | Victory as Tories give in on labels by Iain Loe |
| 19 | He pins the blame firmly on foul-ups by certain other Tories — the ones in Westminster . |
| 20 | Jack Straw talks about raising spending on books by £10 a year per child . |
| 21 | A particular emphasis has been placed on drivers by way of the national ‘ Speedwatch ’ campaign and further campaigns will deal with the wearing of seat belts and drinking and driving . |
| 22 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 23 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 24 | Simons ( 1981 ) , for instance , argues that evaluation which is forced on schools by outsiders ( a power-coercive strategy ) is likely to be half-hearted , distort reality , engender defensiveness and hostility in teachers , and is unlikely to be sustained . |
| 25 | This more positive role adopted by the CNAA in recent years as a direct consequence of the financial cuts inflicted on polytechnics by the government and by the local authorities , cuts which if they go too deep are bound adversely to affect the quality of the work and thereby the quality of the courses validated by the CNAA . |
| 26 | Statutory duties are imposed on manufacturers by the Health and Safety at Work etc , Act 1974 . |
| 27 | Such meals as she ate were brought to her on trays by Janet , meals that Alexandra and Dora would plan with minutest care in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 29 | Unfortunately the RSV is forced by the sense of the narrative to obscure the play on words by translating the term as ‘ plague ’ the first time round ( v. |
| 30 | Far more than a ‘ companion ’ to the Hornblower novels , clarifying and extending the historical background and arranging the events of the hero 's life in chronological order instead of in the irregular order imposed on readers by the dates of publication of the books , Parkinson 's book is related in intention , though not in style and tone , to the amiable pamphlets published from time to time summarising the relationships and activities of the fictional inhabitants of Coronation Street . |