Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the poor old majority of ordinary rugger buggers playing at club level ( roughly 40,000 of them ) , well they have just bee forgotten , relegated as they are , especially in the ‘ test match ’ unions , to timetables dictated by the 90 and playing any days but Saturdays . |
| 2 | Both our patients presented with symptoms and signs of heavy metal intoxication within six weeks of exposure to remedies administered by the same hakim . |
| 3 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 4 | If you listen sometimes to speeches made by the Royal Family now , they are not necessarily to my mind and er this is this difficulty of the sort of humanity and effemininity of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales who tried I think , both of them , to do a phenomenal amount of public work with different levels of success and different levels of coverage . |
| 5 | The guide sets out simplified security controls for exporters of restricted items to countries listed by the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls . |
| 6 | The commissioners made their decision to apply Objective 1 only to areas covered by the regional and islands councils because of regulations requiring funding areas to conform to the French system of prefectures . |
| 7 | But the rat can also refer to cues offered by the external environment — for instance , to use the rule ‘ turn left in relation to the clock on the wall ’ — as fixed or reference memory cues . |
| 8 | The Better Business Scheme was restructured during the year , with additional support being offered to companies threatened by the depressed economic climate . |
| 9 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 10 | The Persian Gulf proposals were an outgrowth of the sponsorship of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean by the Non-Aligned , while the Mediterranean proposals were similar to ideas developed by the Mediterranean non-aligned states . |
| 11 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 12 | According to figures provided by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) on Dec. 27 , 1989 , total air traffic in 1989 ( passengers and freight ) increased by an average of 6 per cent in comparison with 1988 , with a 3 per cent increase in passengers , an 8 per cent increase in freight and a 3 per cent increase in mail carried . |
| 13 | According to figures supplied by the Israeli Defence Forces , Iraq fired a total of 39 Scud missiles at Israel between Jan. 18 and Feb. 25 . |
| 14 | According to figures published by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , the long hot spell over the summer meant that more birds of prey came to our shores than at any time since the eighteen nineties . |
| 15 | According to figures released by the Central Election Management Committee ( CEMC ) voter turnout was 71.9 per cent , compared with 75.8 per cent in 1988 . |
| 16 | ONE QUARTER of people living in Scotland may be living on the breadline according to figures released by the Labour party yesterday . |
| 17 | Some problems are reviewed in the survey which perhaps owe more to difficulties imposed by the local economic circumstances than to structural features of the mental health system . |
| 18 | Miss Lamb is outraged that liquidators have paid just 4.75p in the pound to investors hit by the 1982 collapse of the Isle of Man Savings and Investments Bank . |
| 19 | Contrary to assessments made by the British at the time of signing , there are many examples of these . |
| 20 | Neither was progress made on the intractable issue of nuclear inspections , with the South Korean government continuing to insist on the adoption of a bilateral system of unscheduled and reciprocal nuclear inspections , in addition to inspections conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , which had already begun making regular visits to North Korean nuclear facilities . |
| 21 | At the present time there are numerous artificial barriers to takeovers sanctioned by the domestic legislation of member states . |
| 22 | Contributing to decisions made by the Divisional Officer on matters relating to the section 's specialism . |
| 23 | Whilst an engineer 's responsibility in contract can ( subject to limits imposed by the general law ) be defined and regulated by the parties involved , such is not the case with liabilities in Tort ( i.e. a civil wrong ) , which can involve the community as a whole . |
| 24 | In considering the core issue of the authority of the state the most important conclusion is in the relative independence of identification with one 's community as a non-instrumental basis of authority , which is none the less subject to limits imposed by the normal justification thesis . |
| 25 | Batch processes , such as the production of tapes for the composition contractor , archiving , and back-up , will be run by the facilities management operator according to agreed procedures to instructions given by the New OED Computer Group Manager . |
| 26 | The most important thing to check is that the instructors operate to standards set by the Royal Yachting Association , the governing body for the sport . |
| 27 | Section 5(4) should be read as not applying to mistakes induced by the accused 's deception . |
| 28 | Whereas the US and UK agreements focused on specific arrangements for , respectively , the transportation and the safe storage of Russian nuclear weapons , the French accord , in addition to providing for storage and transportation , also undertook to furnish radiological equipment in the event of nuclear accidents , and machine tools ( not subject to restrictions imposed by the Co-ordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM ) ) designed to disassemble nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | There is a cost to others incurred by the old person 's decision to stay at home . |
| 30 | Most of these trade unions are of recent creation , founded in the mid or late 1970s and are affiliated to federations organized by the mass political organizations . |