Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why at any meeting of the council of a London borough when the mayor is absent a chairman has to be elected by the council to preside at the meeting . |
| 2 | Be careful : if you were asked by the council to comment on the original application , it may only inform you of these new drawings if you specifically ask . |
| 3 | 11.1 Save as provided in clause 11.2 no agent adviser or other person acting for the Landlord has at any time prior to the making of this agreement been authorised by the Landlord to make to the Tenant or to any agent adviser or other person acting for the Tenant any representation whatever ( whether written oral or implied ) in relation to the Site or the Premises or to any matter contained or referred to in this agreement |
| 4 | The board of governors of RGU is also to be asked by the union to intervene in the dispute . |
| 5 | 1540 ) were permanently employed : a manager ‘ hired by the year to attend upon the works and workmen at all tyme , and wey the iron from the workman to the merchaunte ’ , and two waggoners for the slow , laborious process of collecting raw materials and delivering the forgings . |
| 6 | After Muir of Ord JTR got off the train at Conon Station as did I , and walked down by the river to sketch from the Telford bridge of 1809 now replaced by a modern version built in 1969 . |
| 7 | What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation . |
| 8 | The first major work by the artist to go on the block since ‘ Portrait du Dr Gachet ’ reached the world record sum of $82,500,000 ( £43,107,142 ) at Christie 's New York in May 1990 , ‘ Jardin à Auvers ’ was classified as a monument historique in July 1989 French museums possess only a meagre twenty-five paintings by Van Gogh out of a total output of 879 works . |
| 9 | Pta 200 million ; £1.11 million ; $1.93 million ) , to be sold at Edmund Peel & Asociados , Madrid , 19 May , is the most important painting by the artist to appear on the market in over twenty years . |
| 10 | On sunny winter days , panels in the original south gable can be opened to allow air trapped in this conservatory and warmed by the sun to circulate in the body of the house . |
| 11 | Before I rose to speak , I was asked by the chairman to express to the general their admiration for the SAS 's action . |
| 12 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 13 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 14 | Local press reports stated , however , that President Jorge Serrano Elias had already decided to remove Hurtado , because he had become an embarrassment to his administration and had allegedly misused funds intended to pay Chilean carabineros ( security police ) , contracted by the government to assist in the restructuring and training of the Guatemalan National Police . |
| 15 | Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes . |
| 16 | The other thing there is the evidence from the Law Society in England to the committee appointed by the government to look into the question of press self-regulation which has quite a lot to do obviously with privacy for everybody , but also |
| 17 | attempts by the executive arm of government to influence sentencing are unconstitutional ; attempts by the legislature to interfere with the sentencing discretion of the courts are , even if not strictly unconstitutional , bound to result in both practical confusion and injustice to defendants ; the sentencing powers of the courts should therefore be left to the wisdom of the courts , under the guidance of the Court of Appeal . |
| 18 | A number of newspapers claimed the Princess was forced by the Queen to go on the tour against her will , as a way of demonstrating there was no rift between her and the Prince . |
| 19 | This event , which has a different theme each year , is a concentrated effort by the BDA to bring to the notice of the public the needs and aspirations of deaf people . |
| 20 | Driven on by the desire to escape from the hardship of his peasant origins , Pierre Nizan pushed himself ever forward in a process of continual self advancement . |
| 21 | Next to it , is a 4 acre cherry orchard endowed by the Maharajah to pay for the upkeep of the well . |
| 22 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 23 | However , these were soon overshadowed by the need to deal with the problems of the general decline of demand during the Great Depression . |
| 24 | That filmmakers did n't feel hamstrung by the need to defer to the MOI reflects their own desire to ‘ do their bit ’ . |
| 25 | His high blood has been chafed , not by the need to fight for the benefit of Troy , but in a lascivious lust for Cressida . |
| 26 | Yet , when she was asked by the coroner to step into the witness-box , she seemed to take a grip on herself , drawing on some inner strength . |
| 27 | Works of the 18th-century Enlightenment have long been collected by the Library to add to the existing collections : this year the purchase of the second edition of Adam Smith 's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( London , 1778 ) enabled the Library to achieve a complete representation of editions of this most important work issued during the lifetime of the author . |
| 28 | As a result Anne Wilson , the ward 's social worker , is now funded half by the hospital to work at the Sanderson rehabilitation centre to liaise with community social workers and families . |
| 29 | A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage . |
| 30 | Mr. Langley on behalf of the Bank of England submitted that the basis of the injunction was the relationship of confidence subsisting between the Bank and its customer , and that it was well established that the duty of confidence was overridden by the duty to comply with the law , as shown by Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte Taylor ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 3 All E.R. |