Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The congress elected as the union 's new chair Eduard Sagalayev , a former head of Soviet Central Television 's main current affairs unit , who was described by The Times of Feb. 8 as a " leading advocate of free speech and Western-style news reporting " . |
| 2 | A working visit on Feb. 11 to Bonn , Germany , by UK Prime Minister John Major was described by The Times of Feb. 12 as marking the start of " a new era of close co-operation " . |
| 3 | The programme , intended to stabilize the economy by the end of the year , was described by The Times of April 23 as " a mixture of deregulation and authoritarian measures " . |
| 4 | In what was described by The Times of April 20 as " the worst crisis in relations between the two NATO allies " , 15 Turkish diplomats were withdrawn from the Turkish embassy in Bonn , West Germany , and eight West German diplomats were expelled from Ankara . |
| 5 | An ethnic Estonian born Aleksei Ridiger in 1923 in Tallinn ( then in independent Estonia ) , he was described by The Times of June 5 as " a populist figure with a reformist reputation " . |
| 6 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 7 | Starting from the far left , there are two inputs for either high or low output guitars , followed by the controls for channel one . |
| 8 | Glaspie , who subsequently left her State Department post for a teaching job , claimed that a taped record of these discussions as released by the Iraqis in September 1990 [ see p. 37696 ] was effectively " a fabrication " , having been cut and doctored to discredit her . |
| 9 | Sometimes , too , information was deliberately falsified , misrepresented , touched up or omitted or withheld from the pope , as by the emissaries of Baldwin IX of Flanders . |
| 10 | Strict anaerobic sampling is not necessary for the measurements of cCa 2 + in gall bladder bile , because the cCa 2 + was not significantly affected by the changes in pCO 2 . |
| 11 | The destruction caused by the floods in August-September 1988 ( see p. 36288 ) , the cyclone of December 1988 ( see p. 36559 ) and the tornado in April 1989 ( see p. 36591 ) led to the loss of both agricultural and manufacturing production , as well as to serious damage to infrastructure and services . |
| 12 | Around 18 months ago , Algora was contacted by the organisers of Expo 92 who wanted to do something with virtual reality at Seville , but did n't know what exactly . |
| 13 | The ending of the strike depended on acceptance of the agreement by the miners on Jan. 4 . |
| 14 | The plea , from Japanese war veterans ' groups , comes as a diving team from Bristol begins an expedition in Truk Lagoon today to chart the wreckage of the Japanese 4th Fleet , which was destroyed by the Americans in February 1944 … |
| 15 | An index of loss of mandibles and maxillae from the predator assemblages is given by the numbers of isolated teeth in the assemblages compared with the empty alveolar spaces in the known samples of upper and lower jaws ( which is given by the figures in column 1 , Table 3.6 for molar loss , and column 4 in the same table for incisor loss ) : see Table 3.9 . |
| 16 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
| 17 | They were precipitated by the resignations in December 1990 of Michel Noir , 46 , and of two fellow dissident members of the " Renovator " faction of the opposition neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) , all of whom stood as ex-RPR by-election candidates . |
| 18 | We saw in Section 2.6 that the production of turbulent slugs can be either random or periodic in time , as illustrated by the oscillograms of Fig. 2.10 . |
| 19 | It was during World War II that she was to face her greatest challenge when Sark , with the other Channel Islands , was occupied by the Germans in July 1940 . |
| 20 | After Moulin 's capture by the Germans in June 1943 , the CNR was never again to be headed by the CFLN 's representative . |
| 21 | The War Crimes Bill , which provided a legal framework for the prosecution of suspected war criminals and had been rejected by the House of Lords in June 1990 [ see p. 37889 ] , was reintroduced in March 1991 and again effectively rejected by the Lords on April 26 . |
| 22 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 23 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 24 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 25 | The crowd also demanded the removal of the two remaining statues of Stalin from central Ulan Bator , one of which was taken down by the authorities on Jan. 16 . |
| 26 | Martial law was lifted in Beijing on Jan. 11 , having been imposed by the authorities in May 1989 in an attempt to quell growing pro-democracy demonstrations centred in the city 's Tiananmen Square [ see p. 36641 ; see pp. 36720-22 for crushing of pro-democracy movement in early June ] . |
| 27 | The SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric , who on Oct. 25 had called for a civil disobedience campaign against the language law , was in consequence recalled from the Federal Assembly Presidium by the deputies on Nov. 26 . |
| 28 | Cruz admitted unfreezing the bank accounts ; his claim that he had the legal authority to do so was rejected by the courts on Nov. 17 . |
| 29 | BY their defence the defendants pleaded ( 1 ) that the letter of January 3 , 1940 , constituted an agreement that the rent reserved should be £1,250 only , and that such agreement related to the whole term of the lease , ( 2 ) in the alternative , that the plaintiff company were estopped from alleging that the rent exceeded £1,250 per annum , and ( 3 ) as a further alternative , that by failing to demand rent in excess of £1,250 before their letter of September 21 , 1945 ( received by the defendants on September 24 ) , they had waived their rights in respect of any rent , in excess of that at the rate of £1,250 , which had accrued up to September 24 , 1945 . |
| 30 | What was the true intention of the parties when they arrived at the agreement pleaded by the defendants in para. 5 of the amended defence ? |