Example sentences of "by the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P-E International Plc has won the £150,000 contract to help the UK Inland Revenue with the implementation of the proposed reforms of personal tax assessment : in the budget , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced an overhaul of the tax return and payment process to make it simpler and fairer and offer the option of self-assessment and the revised system is scheduled to be in place by the 1996-7 tax year . |
| 2 | It was the second largest fall in the country 's history , exceeded only by the 3,836 point crash on " Black Monday " in October 1987 . |
| 3 | Accounts written by the sixteen pupils were studied for causal attributions , without any further intrusion from the researchers . |
| 4 | The first projection was immediately disconfirmed by Labour winning the 1964 and 1966 elections and the second was undone by the 1970 election and has been destroyed by the last three general elections . |
| 5 | The third administrative procedure established by the 1970 white paper was the establishment of the CPRS , a small multidisciplinary unit which remains as part of the Cabinet Office . |
| 6 | Radio Monte Carlo reported on Aug. 29 that Syria had released Nureddin al-Atasi , President from February 1966 until his overthrow by the 1970 bloodless coup which brought Assad to power , after 22 years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | Additional hazards are provided by the 80 sand bunkers dotted along the manicured fairways and the magnificent greens . |
| 8 | He persuaded Brannen , a natural middle distance runner and high jumper , to take up the challenge of the ten events ( 100 metres , long jump , shot , high jump and 400 metres on day one of a competition , followed by the 110 metres hurdles , discus , pole vault , javelin and 1500 metres on day two ) . |
| 9 | Attempts to reduce the balancing outflow of bullion were having some effect by the 1760s and 1770s , however . |
| 10 | Stratford had leased them out to Thomas Merryat , or Merret , but by the 1620s , his grandson , John , had taken control and was leasing the mills to a Stroud textile dealer , Gyles Davis . |
| 11 | But Mr Mellor said many local authorities found the restrictions imposed by the 1950 Shops Act outmoded and ‘ rightly or wrongly have refused to enforce it . ’ |
| 12 | The development of the Blue Streak ballistic missile that might replace the V-bomber had started , and was greatly helped by the 1950 Anglo-American agreement to collaborate in missile technology ; and the development of the British hydrogen bomb was well under way . |
| 13 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 14 | But , by the six o'clock news , that tarmac scene had been replaced by a news conference in the airport lounge with the usual polished platitudes . |
| 15 | Particularly strong growth was achieved by the six weekly direct European container services which are becoming increasingly important to the Province in the lead up to 1992 and the implementation of the Single European Market . |
| 16 | First , the scanning which is undertaken by the six companies for the total planning process is described in Chapter 5 . |
| 17 | At the end there are sequences of free paddling , both at Nottingham and on natural water , allowing the viewers to see practical use of the moves and permitting them to see the film to examine the techniques , the paddling by the six paddlers involved always being very confident and competent . |
| 18 | The airfield was then inspected on foot by the six officers following which all were in agreement that conditions were far from satisfactory and McGuinness advised they should be prepared for accidents and possible aircraft losses . |
| 19 | If the sectoral approach and spillover were to achieve any great potential , they could only do so on a more limited front — that is , by the six states which had already agreed to the supranational principle by forming the ECSC . |
| 20 | Britain 's traditional supporters fell into line , and Pleven 's blueprint was taken up only by the six states of the ECSC . |
| 21 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 22 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 23 | Spaak himself feared that the post-Messina negotiations might fail ; to avoid this he urged Britain to join in the negotiations currently being conducted by the Six . |
| 24 | Within the Six , the strongest support came from the West German Finance Minister , Ludwig Erhard , who had long favoured a broader European grouping than that being developed by the Six . |
| 25 | They advocated central technical control , ideally by the six Grid control regions which the CEB had operated . |
| 26 | But the work of the Spaak committee soon revealed that , even if the word ‘ supranationalism ’ was no longer used by the Six , the Messina decisions would probably lead to a loss of sovereignty to common institutions . |
| 27 | The core work on client groups for the 1993 community care plan is being done by the six joint care planning teams ( covering aging , physical disability , learning difficulties , mental health , HIV/AIDS , and drug and alcohol problems ) . |
| 28 | He reached for a half loaf of bread with both hands and said , by the six hairs of his grandmother 's beard , they were doing very well out of all this . |
| 29 | The heterogeneity of French solo song at the beginning of the century is shown by the six books of Airs de différents autheurs published by the lutenist Gabriel Bataille ( 1575–1630 ) during 1609–15 ; each book consists partly of his own compositions , partly of airs de cour and psalm-settings by Pierre Guedron ( d. 1621 ) , Le Jeune 's successor as Compositeur de la chambre du Roi , Guedron 's son-in-law Antoine Boesset ( 1586–1643 ) , the elderly Mauduit , and others . |
| 30 | The end of the year is an appropriate time to update our readers with progress made by the six teams . |