Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] by [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The establishment of the NIRC was a political act aimed at trying to contain trade union power within particular rules prescribed by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 .
2 In social work practice the term ‘ relationship ’ is used to describe the context of the general helping activities undertaken by a social worker in interaction with a particular client .
3 It 's not clear how many people participated in the event in Britain or elsewhere by carrying out local ascents , raising sponsorship for the ten lifeline projects designated by the United Nations .
4 This is achieved by limiting the range of cases heard by the High Court , by extending the jurisdiction of the county court , ensuring that , in most cases , the same remedies are available in the county court as in the High Court , amending the transfer system , reviewing the costs sanction system that applies when a case is taken inappropriately in the High Court , improving the trial facilities at county courts by concentrating trials at centres where continuous trial facilities are available , providing new centres , creating a new tier of Circuit judges to take additional civil jurisdiction burdens , and increasing the number of people eligible for appointment as county court and district registrars or district judges .
5 The first cases heard by the special courts had been on Sept. 6 , involving charges of financial irregularities against three former ministers , Jehangir Badar ( whose case was dismissed on Sept. 12 on grounds of insufficient evidence ) , Khwaja Ahmed Tariq Rahim , and Ahmed Khan Maneka .
6 If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only .
7 Rather , the reasons given by the young people followed a consistent pattern of circumstances .
8 If the planning application is persisted with , I support the plea for calling it in , for the reasons given by the hon. Member for Beaconsfield .
9 I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev .
10 With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead .
11 Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache .
12 The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary .
13 New products developed by the best-performing machine-tool makers tended to start their lives with ‘ fuzzy ’ specifications , allowing for significant design changes before they reached the customer .
14 A survey of 106 health authorities undertaken by the National Association of Health Authorities in 1987 showed that most were facing severe financial pressures and taking emergency measures to meet them , such as closing wards on a temporary basis , cancelling elective operations , drawing on reserves and delaying creditor payments .
15 It hears complaints and appeals brought by or against EC institutions , member states or individuals , and gives preliminary rulings on cases referred by the national courts .
16 In the UK this problem has also occurred in the celebrated series of Factortame cases referred by the English courts to the European Court of Justice .
17 Party members were further prohibited from joining or affiliating to the " proscribed organizations " ( groups listed by the National Executive and almost always under Communist Party control ) .
18 On Wednesday morning the prince , in his role as president of Scottish Business in the Community , will visit Craigmillar to see projects developed by the local community , local authority and other agencies , with help from the Friends of Craigmillar — a group of business leaders .
19 The monarchical tendencies typified by the Orange family were stoutly opposed by the republican forces which were strong in Holland , by far the most powerful province of the federation , and notably among the great merchants of Amsterdam .
20 Noting that the conferences opening on Dec. 15 would " take due account of the opinions given by the European Parliament and by the Commission under Article 236 of the Treaty " , the Council confirmed that the work would proceed in parallel , should be concluded " rapidly and at the same time " , and that their results would be submitted for ratification with a view to this taking place before the end of 1992 .
21 When industrialization takes place within a predominantly inegalitarian society , ‘ the technology and organizational work patterns developed by the dominant groups are likely to be those that reinforce , can be adapted to , or at least not incompatible with , existing hierarchical structure of social control ’ ( Fox 1980 , p. 182 ) .
22 Yet this ‘ floating value ’ might never have settled on their land , and obviously the aggregate of the values claimed by the individual owners is likely to be greatly in excess of a total valuation of all pieces of land .
23 It reflects , for instance , the attitudes fostered by the German standards office through the DIN ( the Deutsche Industrie-Norm , or Industrial Standard ) .
24 Under Dej , the once affluent bourgeois residents of Herastau , the attractive northern suburb of Bucharest , were evicted and their houses occupied by the new élite .
25 In other words , not for the first time , it was the estate policies pursued by a particular landowner which produced the northern village plans .
26 To a significant extent , though , such towns have relatively low degrees of social inequality and have high levels of social provision , partly because of the particular policies pursued by the Labour Party controlled local councils .
27 The narrow economic emphasis of the integration policies pursued by the European Communities ( EC ) — epitomized by the planned introduction of the single market in 1992 — were widely condemned , since they would exact excessive social and ecological costs and lead to greater regional differences .
28 This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal .
29 Formerly the Newspaper Proprietors Association , it now became the Newspaper Publishers Association , marking a shift from member groups dominated by a single proprietor to corporations managed on more orthodox commercial lines and with a wide range of finance .
30 Like coconut and rubber , many of these crops were also grown on estates owned by the urban élite .
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