Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and also they , they get the masses on their side by the media ! |
| 2 | The easiest part of the day was parking the car by the Fish pub in Buttermere . |
| 3 | They were prohibited in the Metropolis by the series of Building Acts which had improved the capital 's housing since 1667 , notably that of 1774 . |
| 4 | According to R. L. Poole , ‘ It passed to the Continent by the means of Anglo-Saxon missionaries and scholars . |
| 5 | On every release , targets are set for the whole sales force by the sales manager or director , in consultation with the marketing division . |
| 6 | This is an attempt by the fish to dislodge the offending parasites , but of course where many hundreds of flukes can be involved this is really futile . |
| 7 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 8 | Everybody who was anybody knew that democracy , in its original sense of rule by the people or government in accordance with the will of the bulk of the people , would be a bad thing — fatal to individual freedom and to all the graces of civilized living . |
| 9 | Democracy meant rule by the people or the many ; but because the many were also poor , it was often taken to mean rule by the poor , or by the rabble . |
| 10 | The core of elite theory was the contention that democracy , in the strict traditional sense of rule by the people , is impossible : all government is government by an elite , or at best one among a number of competing elites . |
| 11 | Our earlier discussion of unanimity and of majority rule was based , at least in part , on the assumption of direct personal participation by each citizen in decision-making ; and although many examples have been used from the practice of existing states which claim to be democracies , we have not as yet considered the principles of representation , or any of the procedures and processes which might bring indirect democracy more closely into line with the original ideal of rule by the people . |
| 12 | In the first case , democracy is conceived only as a means for selecting political leaders , and not as a regime in which there is some kind of direct rule by the people . |
| 13 | According to Weber direct democracy is possible only in small and relatively simple societies , whereas beyond this stage , in societies which have become larger , more complex and more differentiated — and especially in modern societies — direct rule by the people is out of the question . |
| 14 | ‘ Democracy ’ , rule by the people , did not always have the good press it enjoys today . |
| 15 | The Princess said she feels the intrusion by the media into her private life has been , ’ hard to bear ’ , and will try to reduce her public profile . |
| 16 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 17 | Underlying it however is the demonstration by the staff of their superior physical strength . |
| 18 | If such advances are to be made and put into practice by the people working the land , then higher soil losses can be ‘ tolerated ’ . |
| 19 | After the elections , Pannella resigned his seat in the Chamber of Deputies in protest against allegedly insufficient coverage of his candidacy by the media . |
| 20 | INACCURATE reporting by the media — particularly newspapers — was condemned by Bob McInnes , Branch Banking Division 's Deputy Managing Director , when he spoke at an informal dinner in North Queensferry , Fife . |
| 21 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 22 | His omission was converted into an act by the means stated in Chapter 4 . |
| 23 | Field Chairs are elected from the teaching staff members of the committee by the staff members . |
| 24 | During the past decade , the zealous attempt to rid public buildings in the United States of the flimsiest traces of asbestos , and the personal damage claims that have simultaneously multiplied , have been financed to a substantial degree by the people at Lloyd 's . |
| 25 | ( 1982 ) show , the coverage of the Law and Order issue by the media was dominated by the agenda set out by the Tory Party aided by the magistracy , the NAS and certain sections of the police . |
| 26 | The women and children , the cattle and treasures of these cities can be taken as spoil by the people , and kept by them as a gift from their God through whose strength they will have gained the victory . |
| 27 | Did it represent a significant move to the right by the people of the United States presaging a deep rooted realignment of electoral forces favouring the Republican party ? |
| 28 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 29 | Tango Golf is now undergoing restoration by the Aircraft Restoration Company ( ARCO ) at Duxford ( FP May , p58 ) and in years to come may fly alongside Bravo Golf , making a rare — if not unique — ‘ Messerschmitt ’ pair in the air . |
| 30 | The individual course , and the student experience on that course , can not constitute a ‘ secret garden ’ , but must be open for critical examination by the staff acting together as a corporate body . |