Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acid rain was found in 85 per cent of samples taken from 23,000 locations in Japan in a three-month survey conducted earlier this year by the Japanese Consumers ' Co-operative Union ( JCCU ) . |
| 2 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 3 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 4 | The ‘ politics ’ of the motor car throughout the inter-war years depended to a large extent on the vigorous leadership given by the private motorists ' main organization , the Automobile Association . |
| 5 | The nineteenth-century approach to Nature study was influenced by the middle classes ' growing commitment to hard work as the key to achievement . |
| 6 | The Government also rejected another move by the Labour peers ' former leader , Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos , a former Secretary for Wales , declaring Welsh an official language . |
| 7 | This meeting followed the ratification on Dec. 10 and 12 of the CIS declaration by the original signatories ' Supreme Soviets . |
| 8 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 9 | In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint . |
| 10 | New draft guidance on the procedures for the outgoing and successor firm when a client decides to change advisers , issued by the Chartered Accountants ' Joint Ethics Committee , puts greater emphasis on the fact that any change in a continuing appointment , such as tax or accounting work , should be treated in the same way as a change of auditors . |