Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme .
2 Organised for children aged nine and over by the Young Ornithologists ' Club .
3 Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk .
4 A statement issued by the Higher Women 's Council called upon all women to unify their efforts within the unified women 's councils in various locations .
5 The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War .
6 At the same time the clergyman-poet Johann Rist ( 1607–67 ) provided a focus for song-composition , comparable with Simon Dach , at Hamburg , a city which , like Königsberg , was untouched by the Thirty Years ' War .
7 The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August .
8 The London Transport strike of 1937 was an unofficial protest by the Communist-led Busmen 's Rank and File Movement against agreements reached between London Transport and the busmen 's own union , the Transport and General Workers .
9 A similar statement was issued by the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association ( RRA ) , which took the opportunity to inform the IDA , Cork County Council and the IIRS that they were opposing applications to dump asbestos both at Currabinny and Ringaskiddy .
10 The exhibition presented by the Irish women 's group focused on Irish women 's lives in Ireland and Scotland in the last century , not on ‘ promoting and peddling pro-Irish Republican publications and propaganda ’ !
11 This fringe left-wing newspaper was produced by the Irish Workers ' Group , a Trotskyist groupuscule which had a scattering of supporters in Ireland but was strongest among Irish exiles in London .
12 For sure , the eighties has already had its riots and can expect more , it has seen insurgent movements for progressive and peaceful life on earth , symbolised by the first women 's embrace of the Greenham Common base in December 1982 which shifted popular consensus against the new generation of nuclear weapons .
13 But by combining SkottiS — an exchange planned by the two countries ' Music Information Centres — the scale of this year 's festivities was unprecedented .
14 THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics .
15 a barbecue followed by the hilarious reps ' cabaret and a chance to test you skill on the mechanical bull .
16 And , by the Married Women 's Property Act 1964 , any money derived by a wife from an allowance made by her husband for housekeeping purposes , or any property acquired out of it , is deemed , in the absence of any agreement between them to the contrary , to belong in equal shares to the husband and wife .
17 Just hours after they left the port it was closed by the Russian generals ' coup against Gorbachev .
18 ( It was repealed by the 1987 Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act . )
19 The prescriptions which had emerged in 1988 and from those conditions of service for teachers which had been introduced by the 1987 Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act had , despite criticisms and resistance , created some new certainties .
20 Even so , the limits are shown by management 's determination to maintain tight control over the terms of the effort bargain in newly extended job roles , both by improved measurement of individual productivities and the retention of strict disciplinary rules on the shopfloor , and by the manual unions ' hostility towards the Employee Involvement programme .
21 The long and complex story is brilliantly told by a relay team of scholars assembled by the Antique Collectors ' Club for this handsomely produced and prodigally illustrated book .
22 Another time when I was walking with Tony we paused for an hour at Malham to break a long day 's walk from Langcliffe to Arncliffe by Malham and Yew Cogar Scar by the old monks ' road .
23 This in its turn was so successful that , within four months of its introduction in 1949 , the available places for the next four years had been booked , so that no new applications could be considered for admissions before 1953 ! 1949 also saw the introduction of Rugby football in place of Association , " to make better use of the space " , a decision then and since deplored and regretted by the Old Stopfordians ' Football Club .
24 In a recent letter to the 1,200 member schemes of the National Association of Pension Funds , the NAPF 's director-general , Michael Elton , warned that despite the issue in July of a guidance note by the independent advisers ' watchdog Fimbra to its members ‘ there still remains much evidence of scheme members being badly advised on transfers ’ .
25 There were posters signed by his partners , by the local lawyers ' association , the Miletti family , various relatives , and of course his wife and children .
26 For the most part people did not take the question seriously ; it was the characteristic passion of young men in the grip of recent learning , or policemen temporarily possessed by the Libyan officials ' variety of amok .
27 Having removed in July all but one of the former communist ministers ( the survivor being Marcin Swiecicki of the Socialist Democracy of the Republic of Poland — SDRP ) , the latest appointments further altered the coalition 's balance by giving the vacant Agriculture portfolio , previously held by the Polish Peasants ' Party ( PSL ) , to Janusz Bylinski of Rural Solidarity .
28 Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] .
29 Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country .
30 He will use the platform provided by the Tory Women 's Conference to try to reassure the Tory Right that the Left has not taken over the Government .
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