Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State of the World Population Report for 1991 released by the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) on May 13 warned that the world 's population was growing faster than predicted . |
| 2 | The form of the book , written from the imagined perspective of the year 2034 , is a review of developments since 1870 and an analysis of the surprising troubles of 2033 provoked by the populist movement — a ‘ strange blend of women in the lead and men in the rank and file ’ . |
| 3 | This curious reversal of roles may have owed something to the agreement of the Liberals to support a government without a clear majority ; the legislation was the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act of 1977 promoted by a Liberal , Stephen Ross . |
| 4 | The new draft law both adds teeth and liberalises , Customs officers will have the right to check all luggage including diplomatic bags , the latter in accordance with the Vienna Diplomatic Convention of 1961 signed by the former Soviet Union and recognised by Russia . |
| 5 | CITIES targeted by the Government are each to have a minister from a team of nine headed by the Inner Cities Minister , Mr David Hunt , to advise them on regenerating the urban environment They will work with City Action Teams and Inner City Task Forces already set up , Mr Hunt yesterday told a London conference , Business in the Cities . |
| 6 | The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine released United States hostage Jesse Turner to Syrian security officers in Beirut on Oct. 21 , after the freeing of one Arab prisoner from Israel and of 14 held by the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army ( SLA ) from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " . |
| 7 | There were sixty such cubicles , two rows of thirty separated by a narrow corridor . |
| 8 | The Congress announced after 10 days of debate that " while emphasizing its adherence to Libyan penal and procedural laws the General People 's Committee [ equivalent to a Council of Ministers ] do not object to the investigation and trial being carried out through the committee of seven constituted by the Arab League [ see p. 38883 ] or through the United Nations before a just and fair court to be agreed on " . |
| 9 | The other Nobel prizes for 1992 announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 8 and 14 were : ( i ) Literature — Derek Walcott , the first Caribbean writer and poet to receive the honour , for his " multicultural commitment " ; ( ii ) Medicine — Edmond Fischer and Edwin Krebs , US biochemists , for their discovery of a muscle enzyme with implications for cancer treatment ; ( iii ) Economics — Gary Becker , the US-born academic , for applying economic theory to everyday human behaviour ; ( iv ) Physics — Georges Charpak , the Polish-born Frenchman , for research into particle detectors ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Rudolph Marcus , the Canadian-born US scientist , for work on electron transfers . |
| 10 | Since March 1992 , 26 death sentences against Islamic fundamentalists had already been handed down , including seven delivered by a criminal court in Bouira on June 3 and 4 [ see also pp. 38840 ; 38936 ] . |
| 11 | An executive share option scheme was first introduced in 1980 followed by an Inland Revenue approved executive scheme in 1984 and a savings related scheme for UK employees in 1990 . |
| 12 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
| 13 | Arrears in 1988/9 increased by a third over the previous year to more than £450 million . |
| 14 | An agreement in 1946 negotiated by the Electric Power Workers Unions , the Densan system , laid the basis for firm-specific bargaining . |
| 15 | Hitherto a semi-independent region of western China ruled by the Dalai Lama , the head of Tibet 's Buddhist clergy and its spiritual leader , Tibet was in 1950 occupied by the communist Chinese People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) . |
| 16 | Hitherto a semi-independent region of western China ruled by a Dalai Lama , the head of Tibet 's Buddhist clergy and thus its spiritual leader , Tibet was in 1950 occupied by the Chinese communist People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) . |
| 17 | The nuns are young because fresh recruitment — of monks as well as nuns — was stopped during a decade of suppression and allowed only after reform in 1981 initiated by the then Communist Party secretary-general , Mr Hu Yaobang . |
| 18 | Then a policy directive in 1977 reinforced by the new government in 1979 , also insisted that InterCity should run commercially even if other parts of the passenger business were to receive grant-aid under the 1968 Act . |
| 19 | After the war , he broke into films with The Sound Barrier in 1949 followed by The Cruel Sea in 1952 . |
| 20 | The situation grew worse after the arrest of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in 1953 followed by the famous Montagu case which ended in 1954 when three of the five men convicted were sent to prison , two being allowed to go free as a reward for turning Queen 's evidence against the other three . |
| 21 | There would be 12 judges ( six from the Czech Lands and six from Slovakia ) appointed by the President upon the proposal of the Federal Assembly Presidium , having been chosen from 24 proposed by the legislative bodies ( eight by the federal and eight by each national parliament ) . |
| 22 | Any so-called ‘ saving ’ to the NHS of products manufactured by British companies would have to be paid for five fold by the British companies , and would show up five fold in our balance of payments , and would mean significant loss in taxation to the British Treasury . |
| 23 | Its members , since 1951 nominated by the national parliaments , themselves displayed a tendency in many debates to cluster around political party identity rather than nationality . |
| 24 | The budget aimed to turn an effective deficit of over 10,000 million crowns ( US$1.00=16.9702 crowns as at March 26 , 1990 ) , as envisaged in the original draft budget for 1990 prepared by the previous communist regime , into a real surplus of 5,400 million crowns , primarily by cutting subsidies to economic bodies ( including agricultural co-operatives ) by 10 per cent , by cutting spending on defence and security by 12.5 per cent , and by cancelling subsidies of 1,200 million crowns for the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) . |