Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The district council claim that unauthorised use of the farm shop for the sale of goods not produced within the farm holding is not a use ancillary to agricultural use , and is contrary to policies laid down by the district local plan . |
| 2 | Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels . |
| 3 | ( WES ) Almost all the club 's riders have refused to agree to new pay scales laid down by the sport 's governing body . |
| 4 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself . |
| 7 | True , the police do at times breach the rules laid down by the law . |
| 8 | If he does cause a byelection , he will face the charge that he is not prepared to play by the rules laid down by the party conference . |
| 9 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 10 | The bulk of LIFFE 's trade is conducted by " open outcry " in pits , each of which is specific to a particular type of instrument which is traded in it only during the recognised hours laid down by the Exchange . |
| 11 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 12 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Come on , ’ he mouthed , his words drowned out by the music . |
| 15 | The medical officer of an institution was , subject to the direction of the management committee , to visit and attend the inmates regularly , and to carry out all the duties of his predecessor with additional duties laid down by the Act . |
| 16 | Good starting points are the many waymarked trails laid out by the Forestry Commission . |
| 17 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 18 | He hopes to have around 400 pubs snapped up by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Watkins wrote of the Cree Indian tracks always being straight , and recent findings in Chaco Canyon , New Mexico , confirm the existence of long straight tracks laid down by the Anasazi . |
| 20 | Can he assure me that the woodlands sold off by the commission will be accessible to all walkers , especially as after the next election a lot of Scottish Labour Members will have a lot of time to do a lot of walking ? |
| 21 | This does not mean that today 's choreographers need follow the conventions laid down by the Renaissance scholars who were more interested in the physical ability and behaviour of courtiers . |
| 22 | Getting trained people to remote villages to administer the drug every year — often along tracks churned up by the rain — will be a formidable task . |
| 23 | The ghosts conjured up by the concept of existence thus reappear to haunt us . |
| 24 | In his well argued submissions Mr. Wall submitted that the discretion conferred on the court by article 13 ( a ) of the Convention is a discretion to be exercised ( a ) within the context of the purpose and principles laid down by the Convention and ( b ) by applying the criteria contained within the Convention itself , and that it is accordingly not a discretion to exercise the inherent jurisdiction of the court in wardship or under the Children Act 1989 so as to act in what the court perceives to be the best interests of the child . |
| 25 | Holders of such data must adhere to the very reasonable legal , moral and ethical principles laid down by the Act and the data must be held securely and confidentially . |
| 26 | Chassis details follow the broad principles laid down by the Turbo R , with three-stage electronically controlled dampers serving what is basically a MacPherson strut front and semi-trailing arm rear suspension geometry . |
| 27 | The Spanish Government considered that the nationality condition and the other conditions laid down by the Act of 1988 were manifestly contrary to the basic principles of the E.E.C . |
| 28 | ‘ The rights deriving from the above-mentioned provisions of the Treaty include not only the rights of establishment and of participation in the capital of companies or firms but also the right to pursue an economic activity , as the case may be through a company , under the conditions laid down by the legislation of the country of establishment for its own nationals . |
| 29 | But he 's still furious at the conditions laid down by the Department of Environment which he must agree to before the gypsies can stay . |
| 30 | Cripps had no alternative but to refuse the conditions laid down by the Executive . |