Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] by the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion allocated , it says , reflects an assessment of the activities undertaken by the manager in pursuit of the company 's investment objectives . |
| 2 | According to Mikhail Afanas'yev , of the 600,000 German books received by the Library in the 1940s , no more than 30,000 were kept . |
| 3 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 4 | The measurements made on GR effects observed within the solar system are described first : the excess advance of the perihelion of Mercury is described in Section 8.1 , the deflection of radiation by the Sun in Section 8.2 and the time delay of radar signals passing by the Sun in Section 8.3 . |
| 5 | Over the next days , he was taken round the various offices used by the SIS in London , and introduced to many men , and a few women , with whom he was to work . |
| 6 | There was , too , the matter of the methods used by the soldier in war . |
| 7 | We shall see that the conflicts between the different roles played by the judge in the political order persist today . |
| 8 | The whole joint family is on the scene , bearing the onslaught of British society and groaning with agony as a result groaning on the one hand because of the intense racism and poverty it faces and on the other because of the confusions caused by the irrelevance in Britain of its most valued concepts . |
| 9 | Since this notion cut across the advice given by other sources and the guidelines issued by the profession in the UK , considerable discussion was provoked . |
| 10 | The petition produced a negative reply from the Home Office in July 1903 , but the episode is noteworthy as one of the innumerable steps taken by the BDDA in its campaign for the better education of deaf and dumb children . |
| 11 | Occasionally , albeit rarely , steps taken by the plaintiff in an attempt to minimise his loss result in fact in increasing it . |
| 12 | However , each school is unique , and the sample illustrates the diverse and idiosyncratic shapes taken by the project in different institutions . |
| 13 | Following revelations about British Gas 's contribution to the destruction of Ecuadorean rainforest [ see ED 48 ] , new information has come to light concerning far larger concessions held by the company in Gabon . |
| 14 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 15 | Commercial rivalry was involved and the wish to better the lithographed lace sample books circulated by the trade in England . |
| 16 | He said that both legislation and the voluntary scheme fulfilled pledges made by the government in its 1990 environment White Paper . |
| 17 | Erm many factors effect what type and extent of convergence happens erm and these can include the range of the speakers repertoire , the probability that there will be future interactions with the same listener , erm the status relationship between the two participants and whether there 's any recollections of previous shifts made by the listener in the same conversation . |
| 18 | ( Any other inventions made by the professor in the course of his employment will be deemed to fall within the provisions of Section 39(2) of the Patents Act 1977 , i.e. will be taken to belong to him . ) |
| 19 | The buyer 's greatest exposure will come not so much from the fact that he has accepted the seller 's standard conditions as governing the contract between them , but from situations where there is a mismatch between the obligations undertaken by the seller in favour of the buyer under the subcontract , and the obligations undertaken by the buyer to his customer under the prime contract . |
| 20 | Richard Solomon , US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the South Pacific , repeated assurances that his country was committed to easing the environmental concerns highlighted by the Forum in its final summit comminuqué : the greenhouse effect , driftnet fishing and chemical weapons incineration on Johnston Atoll . |
| 21 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 22 | One attraction of the method was that an easy flowing line could be printed , in contrast to the short strokes made by the burin in copper ; and Edward Lear 's parrots , toucans and owls are stunning examples of lithography . |
| 23 | Most recently , it has acquired HN-5A infra-red guided anti-aircraft missiles , which are Chinese copies of the Soviet SAM 7 missiles and described by one military analyst as a cheap version of the Stingers used by the resistance in Afghanistan . |
| 24 | Stephen O'Neill from Belfast was asked by Munster Simms Engineering in Bangor to reduce the number of cartons used by the company in its 700-strong product range . |
| 25 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 26 | In addition , there are for example licensing functions performed by the executive in respect of which the traditional view has been that procedural safeguards do not apply . |
| 27 | ‘ Approved duties ’ included council and committee meetings and other duties approved by the council in accordance with its functions . |
| 28 | By focusing on the tensions caused by the imposition in April 1984 of milk quotas the study will document an instance of ‘ agricultural exceptionalism ’ under stress . |
| 29 | This close association of religion and politics has also given the organizational vehicle for the politics — the DUP — an unusual character which I now wish to explore by examining the tensions caused by the presence in a political agenda of religious attitudes . |
| 30 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |