Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion allocated , it says , reflects an assessment of the activities undertaken by the manager in pursuit of the company 's investment objectives . |
| 2 | Most unions are single enterprise units extending membership to all regular employees , but what appears unusual from a Western perspective is the amount of administrative support given by the company in collecting union subscriptions or in providing organizational help for union officials . |
| 3 | As a result of a case heard by the Convention in 1976 , in which the outlawing of homosexuality was considered to be a breach of privacy , homosexual acts between consenting adults over 21 were decriminalised in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 5 | I would hope , however , that any grant received by the Council in respect of a private sector partners investment in a joint project could be treated differently . |
| 6 | Based on a study undertaken by the Commission in August 1988 , the report found that Aborigines — who constituted 1.1 per cent of Australia 's total population — accounted for 29 per cent of those taken into police custody nationwide . |
| 7 | According to Mikhail Afanas'yev , of the 600,000 German books received by the Library in the 1940s , no more than 30,000 were kept . |
| 8 | This thesis details research undertaken by the author in the Department of Computing at Nottingham Polytechnic over almost five years . |
| 9 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 10 | The measurements made on GR effects observed within the solar system are described first : the excess advance of the perihelion of Mercury is described in Section 8.1 , the deflection of radiation by the Sun in Section 8.2 and the time delay of radar signals passing by the Sun in Section 8.3 . |
| 11 | ‘ In my view , the criterion applied by the court in the B. & Q. judgment , according to which an obstacle to intra-Community trade may not exceed what is necessary for the attainment of the objective pursued , reflects both aspects of the criterion of necessity : the restrictive national legislation is relevant with regard to the objective pursued , since it is necessary for the attainment of that objective and has therefore been enacted with that end in view ; the legislation may not go beyond what is necessary for the attainment of that objective , which implies that a less restrictive alternative is not available . |
| 12 | Six people were killed on July 20 in communal rioting sparked by the dispute in the states of Kerala and Maharashtra . |
| 13 | Over the next days , he was taken round the various offices used by the SIS in London , and introduced to many men , and a few women , with whom he was to work . |
| 14 | There was , too , the matter of the methods used by the soldier in war . |
| 15 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 16 | Neither Hogben nor Haldane had any objection to a biologically based eugenics programme enforced by the state in a classless society . |
| 17 | We shall see that the conflicts between the different roles played by the judge in the political order persist today . |
| 18 | ‘ Their original intentions were to lessen the humiliation experienced by the victim in a rape trial and to send a symbolic liberating and educational message to the rest of society , advising all that it was no longer acceptable to assault sexually ( or batter , or ultimately to subjugate ) women . ’ |
| 19 | In an action brought by the Crown in 1636 , he was accused of felling 19,320 trees reserved for shipbuilding , and of having consumed annually 300,000 loads of wood in his ironworks over the preceding seven years . |
| 20 | The House of Lords held that the plaintiff 's relationship with the committee conferred on him private law rights to remuneration in accordance with his statutory terms of service : that a litigant possessed of a private law right could seek to enforce that right by ordinary action notwithstanding that the proceedings would involve a challenge to a public law decision ; and that accordingly the action brought by the plaintiff in the Queen 's Bench Division did not constitute an abuse of process . |
| 21 | India and Pakistan each withdrew troops from their common border in early June in an attempt to defuse tension caused by the unrest in Kashmir . |
| 22 | She expected to find Kathleen prostrated by the tragedy in her family , but although she spoke sadly of Cormac 's wasted life and her mother 's collapse , Kathleen seemed remarkably untouched by the tragedy . |
| 23 | There is an uplift effect exerted by the water in the lower channel on the tank entering it . |
| 24 | A variety of modes of transmission are provided for : the diplomatic channel ; communication to the ministry of justice or other relevant authority of the state of destination , or to a particular tribunal in that state , directly by the tribunal in the state of origin ; such communication via a diplomatic or consular agent ; by a diplomatic or consular agent of the state of origin directly to a national of that state ; by an agent appointed by the tribunal in the state of origin ; by an agent appointed by a party to the proceedings . |
| 25 | She stood in the hazy light cast by the bulb in the ceiling , looking uncomfortable and angry , as she phoned Eddy Russell of the Drugs Squad with the information about Della Torre and the lorry due to arrive at Dover the next day . |
| 26 | The whole joint family is on the scene , bearing the onslaught of British society and groaning with agony as a result groaning on the one hand because of the intense racism and poverty it faces and on the other because of the confusions caused by the irrelevance in Britain of its most valued concepts . |
| 27 | For similar reasons it will be difficult to argue that action taken by the exchange in good faith in the interests of the exchange as a whole is intended to induce a breach of contract , merely because this is an incidental side-effect . |
| 28 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 29 | Section 83(1) of the Building Societies Act 1986 confers on an individual the right as against a building society to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects , investigated under a scheme recognised by the Building Societies Commission . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 1 ) An individual shall , by virtue of and in accordance with schemes under this section , have the right , as against a building society , to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects investigated under the scheme . |