Example sentences of "[noun] by [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Polish priests protested at these measures and at the attempt by schools ' inspectors to interfere in religious instruction , the government responded by arresting and exiling them . |
| 2 | The labour movement 's demands stressed the democratic control of industry by employees ' representatives . |
| 3 | The metopes which beautify the Greek frieze are frequently replaced in Roman work by bulls ' skulls or garlands . |
| 4 | And , in the 67th minute , again after good work by Saints ' forwards , a clever combination of passes between skipper Shane Cooper and scrum-half Jonathan Griffiths put centre Garry Connolly over . |
| 5 | Today the Law Society publishes proposed standards for good management by solicitors ' practices . |
| 6 | Units of the army were dismantled and replaced in some mining communities by miners ' militias . |
| 7 | In the previous recession electronics were to some extent protected from the slump by companies ' enthusiasm for replacing old technologies with new . |
| 8 | The villages were separated from the town by farmers ' fields . |
| 9 | As capital was generated by French , Belgian , Dutch and British industrial power , so the new industrial middle classes began to demand luxury goods : the trade in furs from Poland and Russia improved massively and Manchester , which had previously exported cotton cloth and some Yorkshire manufactured woollen goods to Danzig in return for flax and hemp , now began to open up its own fur trade based on imports from the Baltic — Manchester 's Danzig Street ( which changed its name from Charter Street by residents ' petition in the mid-1860s ) commemorates the trade of this period . |
| 10 | Many of the later lots , primarily small , personal objects given to Cooper by artists ' were not easy to gauge , though by any standards , the miniscule estimates were ridiculous . |
| 11 | But surveys by Consumers ' Association magazine Which ? of the Retail Motor Industry Federation ( RMI ) and the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Electrical Appliances ( AMDEA ) suggest there 's room for improvement . |
| 12 | Building Society — Ombudsman — Jurisdiction — Further mortgage advances — Property valuations by societies ' employees — Borrowers ' complaints of negligent surveys to ombudsman — Whether jurisdiction to investigate and determine — Building Societies Act 1986 ( c. 53 ) , s. 83(1) , Sch . |
| 13 | One final point : always make sure that all models complete the " standard form for signature by models ' devised by the Institute of Incorporated Photographers and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising . |
| 14 | The bill proposes enforcement by barristers ' and solicitors ' separate professional bodies . |
| 15 | A heavily grazed sward has little resilience to repeated abrasion by walkers ' boots , leading to vegetation , followed by soil , loss over a wider and wider area . |
| 16 | But the game , referred with a scrupulous lack of bias by ladies ' chairman Sue Hinkin , swung back in their favour and pride was restored as the men scraped to victory . |
| 17 | The first , a matter of convenience and cost , was that for these figures we were able to rely in part on a large survey of lending rates published last year by Consumers ' Association ( Which ? |
| 18 | Paradoxically the introduction of the state pension seems to have ended independent activity by workers ' organizations , with even the Durham miners ' scheme fading out between the wars . |
| 19 | Visitors are guided through the baths as they would have appeared in Roman times by artists ' reconstructions , spoken commentaries and fascinating computer graphics . |
| 20 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 21 | For example , in the FRN market there have been perpetual ( i.e. non-redeemable ) FRNs , and variable rate notes — stimulated in part by banks ' capital needs following the Basle agreement on capital adequacy . |
| 22 | The British record signing , given a rousing reception by Saints ' fans before kick off , admitted afterwards that Monkou had left him feeling the pressure of a marked man . |
| 23 | There was a wave of factory seizures by workers ' committees , very often on a local and fragmentary basis . |