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

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1 The second part of Acts is dominated by the mission to the Gentiles , under the leadership of Paul .
2 The debate itself was marred by the inexperience of the speakers .
3 Some of the gains made by the nobility in the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s have already been discussed , but the opportunities for enrichment were open to men of all ranks .
4 The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons .
5 " A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands .
6 The range of human tasks has already been indicated by the description of the extremes of procedural and diagnostic task analysis .
7 In no time at each treefall saplings and ferns sprout in the shallow crater left by the spread of the roots .
8 Otherwise , as Evershed J said in Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 179 " … the master would be exposed to unfair competition on the part of his former servant — competition flowing not so much from the personal skill of the assistant as from the intimacies and knowledge of the master 's business acquired by the servant from the circumstances of his employment " .
9 For the nation is only manifested in the national character , in the nationality of the individual ; and the nationality of the individual is only one aspect of his determination by the history of society , by the development of the conditions and techniques of labour .
10 The new frontiers opened up by the development of the sciences through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken them far beyond the model of the machine and revealed a far greater degree of randomness and unpredictability in the fundamental structure of the universe .
11 However , the Working Party report was turned down by the Council on the grounds that its proposals did ‘ not sufficiently reflect its value as an independent and impartial body for setting academic standards . ’
12 In 1930 the owner of a strip of land fronting a highway sold the land to the council , which contemporaneously leased it back to him upon terms set out in a memorandum of agreement providing that ‘ the tenancy shall continue until the … land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of ’ the highway .
13 ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land …
14 He also warned that a future application by the council for the children 's adoption against their mother 's wishes might succeed .
15 By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee .
16 ( b ) CCBE Code of conduct Both the Bar Council and the Law Society have ratified the Code of conduct adopted by the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community as providing a common basis for professional regulation .
17 A copy of a district judge-arbitrator 's award is sent by the court to the parties with the judgment .
18 First , the agreement that risk should pass independently from property was not express but inferred by the court from the circumstances of the case .
19 But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them .
20 We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country .
21 Judge Johan Kreigler dismissed a libel action brought against two newspapers , the independent Afrikaans Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail , by the head of the police forensics service , Lt.-Gen.
22 IN my opinion the loveliest of all the dales , Dentdale is also the most secluded , cut off both by the hills which hem its stern and western ends and by the narrowness of the roads that lead in and out of it .
23 Here the air from the lungs rushes past the vocal cords and the frequency of the sound is controlled by the positioning of the lips and tongue .
24 Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) .
25 Judging by the enthusiasm of the men , women and children who all work on the dam and piped-water project , he has made a start .
26 Fifth , is the security interest one that is created by the act of the parties or is it one created by operation of law ?
27 The council denies that this Coventry estate is a dumping ground for single parents , a denial which is contradicted by the evidence of the inhabitants .
28 According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ .
29 The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices .
30 In the alternative , in the event that any such determination or finding was made , it was unsupported by the evidence before the justices .
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