Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 2 | After a period of prolonged popular opposition Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , as laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 3 | After a period of popular unrest , Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced in an interim capacity by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , under a procedure laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 4 | The major features of local government in England and Wales were laid down by the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act and by three statutes at the end of the nineteenth century : the Local Government Acts of 1888 and 1894 , and the London Government Act , 1899 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the former test and the current test are very similar and indeed the ‘ guidelines ’ laid down by the two Acts are the same . |
| 6 | Nor can an incomplete job description fulfil such requirements of good planning as those laid down by the two post-1988 Act teams on management ( DES 1989e , 1990a ) . |
| 7 | While so engaged an Italian transport aircraft , variously identified as a Caproni Ca310 or a Savoia S.81 , was intercepted and was shot down by the three Beaufighter pilots , Sqn.Ldr . |
| 8 | The " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had already risen by 60 per cent in six weeks to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 , passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 , with production down by the 4,000,000 barrels per day of lost Iraqi and Saudi production . |
| 9 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 10 | He had got used to being in this room , shut in by the four scrawled walls , the sloping ceiling and the unrelenting noise . |
| 11 | This is followed in by the 16.05 ex Birmingham — in at 19.14 , out again at 19.22 . |
| 12 | No they have to be in by the twenty sixth of June . |
| 13 | A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed . |
| 14 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 15 | Next to Churchill there was only one man whom Mrs Robson apparently favoured , and that was Sir Arthur Harris , because was n't he sending bombers over by the thousand to knock hell out of them over there ? |
| 16 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 17 | Do n't be put off by the two sets of coordinates . |
| 18 | The Southern Africa Centre for Ivory Marketing ( SACIM ) , set up by the four countries , plans a range of measures to exclude poached ivory from the trade , including marking legally obtained ivory with a hologram , bar code and serial number . |
| 19 | As a first step in describing this debate , consider the positions taken up by the two leading naturalists at the end of the eighteenth century , the Swede Linnaeus and the Frenchman Buffon . |
| 20 | The arrangements set up by the two Houses differed widely , but they have had in common that their powers derive from the practical assistance given by the United Kingdom Government in the prompt provision of legislative proposals and other Community documents , and from the Government undertaking not to agree any proposal in the Council of Ministers until parliamentary scrutiny is complete . |
| 21 | Diplomatic sources say the ANC and the government plan to call a national referendum on the power-sharing deal if the smaller political groups decline to attend the multi-party conference to refine and ratify the plan drawn up by the two major political players . |
| 22 | This week Andrew Large , the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , published a report that acknowledged the defects in the regulatory regime set up by the 1986 Financial Services Act . |
| 23 | The co-ordinator , Thijs Kuiken , said that the inadequacy of present knowledge had been shown up by the 1989 viral epidemic which killed thousands of seals . |
| 24 | The programme for the first year was drawn up by the three partners during a week-long visit to Fife . |
| 25 | The capital for the fund would be put up by the three governments . |
| 26 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 27 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 28 | An Equal Opportunities Commission , set up by the 1975 Act , oversees the working of the Acts : it may conduct formal investigations , and seek to enforce the law by civil proceedings . |
| 29 | Planning control as set up by the 1947 Act was not therefore revolutionary but evolutionary , building on aspects of the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1932 and 1944 which extended the requirement for planning permission to the whole of the country , albeit ineffectively . |
| 30 | This is borne out by the 1991 figures which tell us that out of eight fatalities , half involved the tractor . |