Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) The number of experts appointed by the other bodies is very |
| 2 | THE Leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to be a little more upright within two years , according to a commission of experts appointed by the Italian government to decide how to stop it collapsing . |
| 3 | Figures on the value of estates left by the deceased are sometimes used to calculate the overall distribution of wealth . |
| 4 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 5 | Indeed , the median number of γ-interferon expressing cells in the lamina propria was almost half the total of leucocytes identified by the anti-CD45 antibody ( range : 20–88% ) , while 13.5% of normal intraepithelial lymphocytes were positive for γ-interferon ( range : 2–35% ) . |
| 6 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 7 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
| 8 | A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The main opposition parties , the Union pour la democratie française ( UDF ) , a coalition of groups led by the former Prime Minister Giscard d'Estaing , and the Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR ) , the Gaullist party led by Chirac , have very similar and , in comparison with British party-political programmes , not very detailed , manifestos . |
| 11 | At first , the parish was responsible for its poor , then came the union of parishes and then the Boards of Guardians followed by the local authorities ( county and county borough councils ) . |
| 12 | Subsequently , after a series of meetings initiated by the then Director of Social Services , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse was set up . |
| 13 | Germany agreed to suspend its claims for the payment of debts incurred by the former Soviet Union to former East Germany until the year 2000 , while in exchange Russia abandoned all claims for compensation for Soviet military property and installations in former East Germany . |
| 14 | Of the six colleges only two are accredited for both primary and secondary training at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level ; primary provision predominates and , because of cuts imposed by the former DES in the past , even their joint secondary provision does not meet the full range of subjects required by the standard secondary school . |
| 15 | Communication and Society forms part of a series of books distributed by the Asian Institute of Journalism . |
| 16 | This is mirrored in the huge crowds that were drawn to the special exhibition of books staged by the Educational Publishers Council in London this autumn . |
| 17 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |
| 18 | By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress . |
| 19 | In March 1990 allegations of irregularities were made concerning the origin and destination of funds received by the National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) . |
| 20 | And in cases which merit protection , if that is still not enough to induce voluntary investment of funds offered by the national investment bank there is again a prima facie case for nationalisation . |
| 21 | The newsletter gives of news of audio-visuals produced by the Anglican Communion , including one called ‘ On the Move ’ , a thirty minute video which ‘ captures the rich evangelistic , liturgical and cultural diversity in Anglicanism ’ as it prepares ‘ to move more deeply into the Decade of Evangelism . ’ |
| 22 | We 've had a debate on Local Management of Schools opposed by the Labour Party where we have seen that the right to choose their own children 's quality of education and where school governing bodies can direct their cash where they want has been extremely popular . |
| 23 | Whilst this may be a mixed blessing because of pupils switching between schools , and different types of schools created by the greater choice . |
| 24 | It arrives at the figure of 47 per cent on the basis of methods used by the European Commission and other European countries . |
| 25 | In the far west , beyond the Old World and the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan , the Orcs and Goblins of Naggaroth are the descendants of captives taken by the Dark Elves many thousands of years ago . |
| 26 | Configurational restraints based on those of Reinhart ( 1983 ) were applied to the set of candidates delivered by the preceding stage . |
| 27 | Previous elections , when the electorate voted for a list of candidates nominated by the ruling communist Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , had taken place in 1986 [ see p. 34678 ] . |
| 28 | We will certainly need very soon to reconsider the levels of subscriptions paid by the employed Bar in comparison with those paid by those in private practice . |
| 29 | The regime established by the neutralisation of an entire region could be based on a framework of obligations undertaken by the Great Powers to desist or refrain from particular forms of military involvement in that region , in particular the maintenance of military bases , facilities and alliance systems . |
| 30 | During the 1980s these quasi-government agencies became a convenient means of off-balance-sheet financing ; so much so that they have now amassed nearly $1 trillion-worth of obligations underwritten by the American taxpayer . |