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

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1 The four-man winners were a team led by the former British champion Tom De La Hunty
2 He accused the US of attempting to destabilise him in order to revoke the Panama Canal treaty — signed by the former US president , Jimmy Carter , and the then strongman of Panama , General Omar Torrijos — under which control of the canal passes to Panama in the year 2000 .
3 At another rally in Budapest , the ‘ Unity Platform ’ led by the former hardline ideologist , Janos Berecz , was stressing ‘ Bolshevik values ’ and condemning the ‘ monetarist policies ’ of the government .
4 The agreement had been drawn up by Bernard Pons , the head of the RPR 's parliamentary group , but it was opposed by the former prime minister , Jacques Chirac , who is the founder and president of the RPR .
5 ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade .
6 Matthews is replaced at flanker by the former Wales captain , David Pickering , while the Bath lock John Morrison comes in for Kimmins .
7 Mr Gollnisch has been invited to speak at a Conservative fringe meeting in Blackpool , organised by Western Goals UK , a movement run by the former Tory MP , Sir Patrick Wall .
8 The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents .
9 However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin .
10 However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin .
11 After that , however , Jacobs was clearly outpointed by the former world champion James McGirt in New York .
12 But her more confident mood was sustained by an intervention during the House of Commons prime ministers ' question time by the former Labour cabinet minister , Mr Peter Shore .
13 But her more confident mood was sustained by an intervention during the House of Commons prime ministers ' question time by the former Labour cabinet minister , Mr Peter Shore .
14 Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats .
15 This month 's parliamentary debates follow the report of the war crimes inquiry , headed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions , Sir Thomas Hetherington , which followed up 301 allegations .
16 Sir Anthony launched his investigation last November following complaints by MPs and after an independent report into the DTI 's role by the former Monopolies Commission chairman , Sir Godfray Le Quesne , which the then Trade Secretary , Lord Young , concluded cleared his department of any responsibility .
17 The fraudulent conduct of the poll , and the subsequent annullment , was deplored by the former President , Mr Jimmy Carter .
18 When the printing operation of Mr Maxwell 's quoted company Maxwell Communications was taken over by its management this year , 24 per cent was retained by the former parent .
19 The faction led by the former party secretary-general , Shintaro Abe , had demanded that Mr Nakayama ( one of the faction 's own men ) must stand down to give another of the group some cabinet experience .
20 Other peers in the paternalist tradition , led by the former knight of the shires , Lord Chelwood ( the much-parodied Sir Tufton Beamish ) , planned an amendment which would have required the tax to be related to ability to pay .
21 They have been carried out under the ‘ Douglas-Home Rules ’ , established by the former Prime Minister in the 1960s .
22 He knew that success depended on the latter and was endangered by the former .
23 Having congratulated Cabinet members on their return , Major yesterday baffled the gathering by noting that the new Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , lived in a house that was once occupied by the former Kent cricketer Alfred Mynn .
24 For both organisations , it offered continuation of an outstandingly successful project which had been initiated by the former and supported by the latter — both bodies had continuity as the central imperative .
25 The latter process will tend to counteract the loss of latent inhibition produced by the former .
26 They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other .
27 Of the six colleges only two are accredited for both primary and secondary training at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level ; primary provision predominates and , because of cuts imposed by the former DES in the past , even their joint secondary provision does not meet the full range of subjects required by the standard secondary school .
28 Its next development will be the 250bhp JPE , the Jonathan Palmer Evolution , which will be tested by the former Formula One racing driver .
29 The truth is anyone 's guess , but Weller certainly offered to play on Raw Stylus ' single ‘ Pushin' Against The Flow ’ , and their name cropped up in one of the few recent interviews given by the former Cappuccino Kid .
30 I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case .
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