Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a borrower was systematically unable to meet commitments by the required date he became insolvent , the final stage when all his remaining assets were repossessed . |
| 2 | There was pressure upon it , as there was then on teacher training institutions generally , to expand numbers rapidly and to attract numbers by the provision of a wide range of possible options . |
| 3 | Not all banks are authorised to issue CDs by the Bank of England ; the primary market exists between the original depositor and bank . |
| 4 | The two shipments were estimated to cover consumption needs for up to two months and helped bolster the determination of the military leaders to resist attempts by the OAS to secure Aristide 's return . |
| 5 | To set laws by the few jaws — |
| 6 | Firstly , attention to video nasties by the newspapers takes the attention off their own sensationalist coverage of sex offences . |
| 7 | Grachev met his Georgian counterpart Tengiz Kitovani in Moscow on Dec. 31 to discuss demands by the Georgian parliament for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Abkhazia . |
| 8 | Well-known artist and tutor David Bellamy will demonstrate how to enhance landscapes by the inclusion of wildlife . |
| 9 | 2 Establishing clinical guidelines and protocols such as those developed to aid purchasers by the DOH for the prevention , treatment and management of diseases such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus . |
| 10 | It is analytically more revealing and significant to identify actors by the roles they play , for example politicians and officials . |
| 11 | This was not universal — some tenants held land by custom alone , without possessing a copy of the court roll entry , and they were generally more vulnerable to pressure from their lords , as legal protection was gradually extended to copyhold tenants by the courts both of common law and of equitable jurisdiction during the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | Their parents like to leave toys by the graves , but on several occasions they 've returned the next day to find them missing . |
| 13 | ‘ Although these claims are true , they are rather misleading and are an attempt to generate fees by the businesses concerned , ’ says tax specialist Peter Howarth . |
| 14 | And indeed , at the summit today in Brussels , John Major is going to fight plans by the European Commission for a one hundred billion pound job creation programme across the Community . |
| 15 | Police vans cruised , and sometimes the law leapt out on to the street to grab kids by the hair and smash their heads against walls . |
| 16 | This marks their first exchange of vows , which is reiterated when Lise pretends to harness Colas by the ribbons to a trap of which she is the driver . |
| 17 | Not at all , no padre in the British army is allowed to carry arms by the Geneva convention . |
| 18 | With all the sense of timing learnt as champion jockey , he creates situation after situation of rising suspense to hold readers by the hundred thousand glued to the battle of wits between hero and villains that he has devised . |
| 19 | This reflects a number of trends ; our society 's lemming-like dash to document , quality-assure and performance-indicate everything that moves , the release from inhibitions ( and writing standards ) and the productivity gains afforded to document creators by the word-processor , and both the power and ephemerality of electronic mail , which encourage proliferation unencumbered by considerations of cost or accountability . |
| 20 | By seven days after returning to the low sulphate diet , breath CH 4 concentrations had increased again and returned almost to control levels by the end of the study . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 22 | President Ali Abdullah Saleh was reported on Oct. 9 to have reaffirmed his longstanding commitment to hold elections by the end of November , despite tensions in the government and a succession of murders and bombings [ see p. 38936 ] . |
| 23 | There have been no serious attempts to eradicate anophelines by the technique of irradiation sterilisation , but another USDA team performed a major trial with Anopheles albimanus sterilised by exposure to a chemical . |
| 24 | The court office can not refuse to issue proceedings by the process requested by the plaintiff/applicant merely because it considers such process to be inappropriate ( Baker v Thatcher ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 863 ) . |
| 25 | Opposition to price rises by the majority of Supreme Council deputies was the reason for the resignation of Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene on Jan. 8 . |
| 26 | Announced way back in September 1989 , IBM Corp is finally promising to have a completed version of its AD/Cycle CASE-based application development environment completed by the end of the year and ready to ship to end users by the middle of 1994 . |
| 27 | Having announced the thing way back in September 1989 , IBM Corp is finally promising to have a completed version of its AD/Cycle software engineering-based application development environment by the end of the year and ready to ship to end users by the middle of 1994 — although it will bear little resemblance to the 1989 conception . |
| 28 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 29 | In the post-war decades , the majority of women had married and subsequently left paid work to have children by the age of 30 ( see Rimmer , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | The Hitchcock show , which takes place at Islington Powerhaus on October 17 ( billed as a benefit for Bosnian Refugee Relief ) , was to feature performances by The Soft Boys and Peter Buck . |