Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a view lies at the heart of the reasons given by the writers of the National Curriculum consultative document ( DES , 1987 ) for a common curriculum in all state schools . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 3 | I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 . |
| 4 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
| 5 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 6 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 7 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 8 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 9 | So in theory a computer , by comparing the pattern of voltages registered by the voltmeters at all the portholes , could calculate the pattern of obstacles around the fish . |
| 10 | The patterns formed by the processes of etching and/or evaporation of the conductor make the electrical circuitry of the integrated circuit . |
| 11 | She rested her head back against the soft leather seat , watching the patterns formed by the trees against the night sky as they drove steadily back to the road . |
| 12 | They decided to compare the money earned by the inventors of the Polaroid instant camera , the Catseye road stud , and the ring-pull can , with the reward reaped by Armstrong . |
| 13 | Certain of the policies pursued by the Tories during the '50s served to strengthen such stable ‘ non-class ’ social collectivities . |
| 14 | A fundamentally important way in which the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reflects the overarching structure of the Canterbury Tales is by inviting profound reflection on the two criteria by which the tale-telling game on the pilgrimage is to be judged : " Sentence " and " solaas " — a familiar pairing of lust and loore , instruction and entertainment — are the two aspects of literature supposed by the terms of the competition to produce the best tales . |
| 15 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 16 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 17 | The coastal areas of southern Italy were dotted with cities occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists . |
| 18 | For through the seemingly substantial chest of his great-great-grandfather he could glimpse the hazed , refracted image of the Ywe Lung , the great wheel of dragons broken by the planes of his ancestor 's body . |
| 19 | One of the main ways in which they did this was by seeking to rally people behind their cause by appealing to the issues of the day , through the press , pulpit , and the speeches given by the candidates at the hustings . |
| 20 | These conditions touch on many aspects of our national life : health threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes ; education retarded when children have no room in which to do homework , or arrive tired at school after sleeping in a room with several others ; marriages broken up through the strain of sharing a home or making do in cramped and uncomfortable quarters ; Borstal institutions , remand homes and approved schools filled by the products of an unhappy home life . |
| 21 | The report concerned a number of items taken in a raid the previous evening on a gaming club frequented by the sons of several important Company heads . |
| 22 | The present appellants argue that every life prisoner should be informed of the advice on tariff given by the judges to the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | He had a vision of the people of the country , walking and walking in endless droves , like pilgrims , across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns ; and as the smoke blew into their eyes , the people turned , desperate to see their homes again , but behind them a great dark channel had opened , with torn precipitous sides , and there was no way back … |
| 24 | No-one understood more clearly in November 1911 than Havelock Wilson that although the strike victory of that year represented a major gain to the union , the Shipping Federation 's abandonment of " the Ticket " was a reluctant one and that his battle against the managerial prerogatives claimed by the shipowners in manning their vessels and paying their crews was far from over . |
| 25 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 26 | The privileges enjoyed by the bureaucrats of communist regimes have constituted part of the evidence around which the debate about class relations has evolved . |
| 27 | The speeches made by the representatives of member governments at the General Assembly were dominated by events in the Gulf [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37694-97 ] . |
| 28 | A considerable advantage of the collinear technique , however , is the ability to keep the laser frequency fixed while changing the frequency of light seen by the atoms by altering their velocity , using the acceleration voltage of the mass separator . |
| 29 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |
| 30 | Valuations shall be made in accordance with ( a ) SSAP 9 revised and ( b ) the practice adopted by the Vendors for the 1989 Audited Accounts . |