Example sentences of "by the [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | a barbecue followed by the hilarious reps ' cabaret and a chance to test you skill on the mechanical bull . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Just hours after they left the port it was closed by the Russian generals ' coup against Gorbachev . |
| 12 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | There were posters signed by his partners , by the local lawyers ' association , the Miletti family , various relatives , and of course his wife and children . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On close examination by the American Consumers ' Union , some of these switches were found to be connected to no vital function of the machine whatever . |
| 25 | Franklin , 51 , a member of seven corporate boards , was named in 1990 by the American Manufacturers ' Association as one of the 50 most influential business people in the USA . |
| 26 | The impeachment process was formally initiated as a civilian action by the Brazilian Attorneys ' Association ( OAB ) and the Brazilian Press Association ( ABI ) . |
| 27 | The overriding message that emerges from the survey is that accountants in industry share to a considerable degree the City 's view ( as exemplified by the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee ) that reporting companies need to devote more efforts to improving the information provided on the nature of R&D expenditure and , in particular , its contribution to performance . |
| 28 | The kidnappings , which took place near the village of Elmali in Bingol province , were interpreted as a move by the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) to heighten its international profile . |
| 29 | The general election of May 1982 was won by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) which was returned in the general elections of April 6 and April 30 , 1987 , after winning nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in both . |
| 30 | A 24-hour general strike was called by the United Workers ' Front ( FUT ) on Feb. 6 , and violent clashes were reported between strikers and the police . |