Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 2 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 3 | Of the 297 monitoring visits carried out by the ACCA in the year to 30 September 1992 , only 134 firms ( 45% ) were found to be satisfactory ; 139 firms ( 47% ) failed either because they had poorly developed quality controls over audit work or because some of their audit opinions were questionable ; and a further 23 firms ( 8% ) were considered to be ‘ potentially in breach of audit regulations or the ACCA 's professional conduct rules , to such an extent as to warrant immediate action ’ . |
| 4 | The maturity analysis of commercial assets is one of the disclosure changes brought about by the directive ; another is the inclusion on the face of the balance sheet by way of memorandum of contingent liabilities and commitments . |
| 5 | Excise tax data showed a 4 percent increase in smoking in 1990 , and household surveys carried out by the Health Department confirmed the increase . |
| 6 | ONCE FREE technical help and support with fast and efficient access to the expert knowledge of our specialist consultants backed up by the latest online information sources . |
| 7 | A wide range of sources has been sifted to reconstruct the changing ideas and goals of the masses : private correspondence and letters to the press , contemporary reports in the metropolitan and local press and the myriad publications put out by the new organizations which sprang to life after February , memoirs and official reports , conference protocols and records of the countless resolutions passed in grass-roots meetings in the villages , at the factory gate , in soldiers ' committees and local soviets . |
| 8 | The dismissal arrangements set up by the governing body have to provide for the CEO , or representatives , and the headteacher , unless she or he is the person concerned , to be present at all stages when a dismissal is being considered . |
| 9 | The second factor was the change in the Ministry of Defence 's decision-making processes brought about by the increasing complexity of Defence issues . |
| 10 | ‘ And it is not going to be won ’ , says Mr Carlson , ‘ by a bunch of biplane pilots flying round by the seat of their pants . ’ |
| 11 | The inter-library comparison of 14 university libraries carried out by the Centre for Interfirm Comparison in 1979/80 showed how staff costs are predominating over the budgets for materials . |
| 12 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 13 | The relaxation of east-west tensions brought about by the ending of the cold war has meant that the fear of nuclear war has receded from public consciousness . |
| 14 | The Storage Directories map onto the Charge Codes set up by the LIFESPAN Manager ( see Section 2.7 ) — this is where your configurable items are actually stored . |
| 15 | Forearm and shin guards must also be worn in accordance with the strict safety standards laid down by the governing body . |
| 16 | up in firkins in seven gallon firkins hoisted up by a winch . |
| 17 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 18 | Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention . |
| 19 | A survey of Central American women 's development programmes carried out by the Mexican government 's " Women 's Documentation Centre " in April 1982 produced from the Ministry of Education the following list of publications on women 's issues available in El Salvador : Vision Magazine ; Today At Home ; TV Guide ; Vanity ; Cosmopolitan ; Good Housekeeping . |
| 20 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
| 21 | Although the farmers frequently made considerable profits , wages did not rise to correspond with the price increases brought about by the wars . |
| 22 | The Yorkshire Television helicopter , which had lifted the crew in , landed in pitch darkness , totally against the ground rules laid down by the Civil Aviation Authority , and lifted out the film equipment . |
| 23 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 24 | The following is a declaration of the rights of television viewers drawn up by the French Association of Television Viewers . |
| 25 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 26 | Beyond stood a rectangular building , the terminal , fabricated from the packing crates left over by the American military from its construction work on the runway . |
| 27 | On April 24 , 1990 , the government legalized the Eastern Rite Catholic Church , although the return of church buildings taken over by the Orthodox Church remained difficult to resolve because of uncertainties over the current number of Uniates . |
| 28 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |
| 29 | TWO Britons sent home from the Barcelona Olympics after failing drug tests carried out by the Sports Council will not be disciplined by their international federation , who said yesterday it had no jurisdiction in the case of Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxon . |
| 30 | Every resident has one member of staff who acts as a personal ‘ key worker ’ , responsible for making sure that the care plans drawn up by the professional staff and the individual residents are implemented . |