Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 2 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 3 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
| 4 | The primary source of this would be accounts given by the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union . |
| 5 | Volume was measured separately for each outstanding futures contract by the number of contracts traded during the day . |
| 6 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 7 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 8 | Users must be fully isolated from any development activities undertaken by the Computer Group . |
| 9 | This implies a rejection of any activities undertaken by the mass of the population ( always with the exception of direct revolutionary action ) as a possible basis for learning about the future development of our society . |
| 10 | The proportion allocated , it says , reflects an assessment of the activities undertaken by the manager in pursuit of the company 's investment objectives . |
| 11 | Many of the activities undertaken by the partnership can be provided by a school without using this form of organisation . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there is bound to be substantial job displacement and creation , and the various tendencies highlighted by the Council for Science and Society ( CSS 1981 ) , and by such writers as Mike Cooley ( n.d. ) and Tony Watts ( 1983 ) , have to be taken seriously . |
| 13 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 14 | The Maggot 's Beechcraft clawed higher , its progress punctuated by the alarm sirens that the Maggot ignored and which the senator had learned not to worry about . |
| 15 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 16 | The reasons given by the development officers for supporting admissions were as follows ( also see Chapter Seven on the ‘ Limits to Care ’ ) : |
| 17 | Examples of reasons given by the Secretary of State for not allowing a property to be exempted include : |
| 18 | Roskill L.J. , although endorsing , at p. 311H , the reasons given by the Master of the Rolls , otherwise based his judgment entirely upon the undertaking . |
| 19 | Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid . |
| 20 | The Edinburgh " female question " clearly had repercussions outside the city , as can be seen from the reasons given by the Arbiter who turned down the Glasgow compositors " pay-claim in 1904 . |
| 21 | Thurmaston , just to the north of Leicester , was another village that had become dependent upon framework knitting by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 23 | ‘ the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 24 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 25 | Section 39 is not itself a legislative provision , so the issue is whether Parliament intended by the legislation conferring such powers on the Bank of England that a section 39 notice should revoke or vary an injunction , or permit a party subject to the injunction to act in apparent breach thereof without attracting the sanctions of contempt of court . |
| 26 | The Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano sits by the sea and tells us that Europeans ‘ tend to classify us as exotic birds-parrots , or toucans … ’ |
| 27 | The current value of outstanding contracts placed by the Ministry of Defence with the companies listed is as follows : British Aerospace , £1,625 million ; Royal Ordnance , £315 million ; VSEL , £1,070 million ; Ferranti , £360 million ; and Leyland Daf , £105 million . |
| 28 | A plane wave solution for a wave travelling along the direction given by the unit vector n in n is where k is the wave number . |
| 29 | That is still the position and the direction given by the family proceedings court runs contrary to that principle . |
| 30 | The guild also contributed regularly to investigations undertaken by the Labour Department of the Board of Trade into female labour . |