Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] by " in BNC.

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1 The district council claim that unauthorised use of the farm shop for the sale of goods not produced within the farm holding is not a use ancillary to agricultural use , and is contrary to policies laid down by the district local plan .
2 Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels .
3 It emphasized that many people considered that direct contact between boards and course teams was ‘ one of the most valued aspects of the Council 's operation ’ , and the Council concurred with this view as long as boards worked within the policies laid down by the committees .
4 ( WES ) Almost all the club 's riders have refused to agree to new pay scales laid down by the sport 's governing body .
5 ( 4 ) defines the time limit for the giving of reasons laid down by subs .
6 The BSC will retrospectively censor the output of all mainland TV stations , but will have no jurisdiction over programmes beamed in by satellite from abroad .
7 Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity .
8 A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools .
9 He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction .
10 But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself .
11 If he does cause a byelection , he will face the charge that he is not prepared to play by the rules laid down by the party conference .
12 The real estate descended to the heir in accordance with rules laid down by statutes of 1833 and 1859 .
13 The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns .
14 The Yorkshire Television helicopter , which had lifted the crew in , landed in pitch darkness , totally against the ground rules laid down by the Civil Aviation Authority , and lifted out the film equipment .
15 Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 .
16 Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention .
17 The deliberations in Bonn were guided by rules laid down by the Allies .
18 True , the police do at times breach the rules laid down by the law .
19 The first specimen to be formally described according to the rules laid down by Linnaeus ( and later codified by Strickland and others from 1842 on ) is the type , and these are carefully kept in great museums , which exchange duplicates after due comparison .
20 These are rules laid down by law which allow a claim to be brought only if legal proceedings are commenced before the expiry of a deadline .
21 In redrawing boundaries the commissions are guided by rules laid down by act of Parliament .
22 The bulk of LIFFE 's trade is conducted by " open outcry " in pits , each of which is specific to a particular type of instrument which is traded in it only during the recognised hours laid down by the Exchange .
23 There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later .
24 In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association .
25 Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world .
26 It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times .
27 Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers .
28 It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers .
29 Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street .
30 CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past .
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