Example sentences of "by the [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If this did in fact happen , it can be plausibly explained by the anxiety of lay landowners to provide for their families and by their inability to browse on retirement in clerical pastures .
2 The complaints of radical Kadets that Miliukov and his colleagues were going too far towards compromise with the regime were matched by the regret of right-wing Kadets such as Maklakov and Struve at the party 's failure to grasp the offers made by Witte and Stolypin of representation in the cabinet .
3 The use of the contract army , however , placed the king in the position of debtor to the military captains , most of whom were members of the titled nobility , and the sums owed by the crown to individual nobles might often be very substantial : in 1386 , for instance , the Earl of Northumberland reached agreement with the Exchequer whereby in return for £700 he discharged the king of all debts owing to the earl ‘ from any time past until the making of this indenture ’ , and the earl was discharged of the debts he incurred when he held the office of Admiral .
4 The only exceptions are the counties of Cornwall and Lancaster , where the foreshore is owned by the respective Duchies , and where grants of the foreshore have been made by the Crown to other parties .
5 But there is rich compensation in Barbara Jefford 's magnificent Volumnia : why has this superb actress been given only two roles by the RSC in 30 years ?
6 The acquisition of office is governed by the promulgation of legal rules .
7 These trends predate the Upper Palaeozoic cover and support the view that Lower Carboniferous sedimentation was controlled by the reactivation of structural discontinuities in the underlying basement .
8 These trends predate the Upper Palaeozoic cover and support the view that Lower Carboniferous sedimentation was controlled by the reactivation of structural discontinuities in the underlying basement .
9 Second , a vast increase in the level of state intervention in a variety of spheres ( Friedman , 1971 and 1972 , ch. 10 ) has been accompanied by the development of new forms of state regulation in which discretion and informal controls exercised through devices such as circulars , tax concessions and various methods of state economic management ( Daintith , 1979 ) are accorded much greater prominence than formal ‘ legal ’ measures .
10 You 're making an assumption that damage would be caused erm by the development of certain sites , and that it would n't be caused by the development of other sites .
11 At the global scale numerical modelling has developed and was applied to the planetary boundary layer , facilitated by the development of powerful computers used in short-range forecasting research , and then in the construction of general circulation models and thence models of global climate .
12 However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced .
13 You 're making an assumption that damage would be caused erm by the development of certain sites , and that it would n't be caused by the development of other sites .
14 The development of this system was complemented by the development of analytical techniques for evaluating weapon systems and other alternative defence strategies .
15 A new historical epoch is created by the development of superior forces of production by a new social group .
16 This had been made clear by the development of nuclear weapons , by new popular movements and ideologies , and by scientific and technical developments .
17 What are the training requirements created by the development of these systems ?
18 Of many other periodical bibliographical guides , only one needs to be mentioned here as a useful first quarry for the student : the American Foreign Affairs Bibliography published by the Council on Foreign Relations , whose first volume appeared in 1933 .
19 News supplied by the Council for National Parks
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25 A report recently published by the Council for National Parks calls upon the government to make a much stronger commitment to protect the environmental values for which the parks were originally created .
26 We should take it easy and not be led by the nose by the Commission or by the Council of Foreign Ministers .
27 ( g ) ‘ recognised body ’ means a body corporate for the time being recognised by the Council under these Rules as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships ;
28 The Society shall maintain a list containing the name , registered office and other place or places of business of every body for the time being recognised by the Council under these Rules , which list shall be available for inspection by the public .
29 It was held by the Court of Common Pleas that the plaintiffs were entitled to be paid the reward due to them by the overseers who were in office at the date of sentence on the ground that until the keepers of the disorderly house had been sentenced there had been no conviction .
30 Hicks v. Gregory , together with other decisions , is discussed by the Court of Common Pleas in Smith v. Roche ( 1859 ) 6 C.B. ( N.s. ) 223 ; 141 E.R.
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