Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that employers were organised by industry had a feedback effect on the structure of manual workers ' trade unions . |
| 2 | As mentioned , it was already forbidden by law to procure an abortion . |
| 3 | The ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creations ; and she avenges herself upon the intruder , by letting loose upon her defaced provinces destructive energies hitherto kept in check by organic forces destined to be his best auxiliaries , but which he has unwisely dispersed and driven from the field of action . |
| 4 | Thus , the court has by mandamus required a visitor to exercise his jurisdiction : see Rex v. Bishop of Ely ( 1794 ) 5 Durn. & E. 475 and Rex v. Dunsheath , Ex parte Meredith [ 1951 ] 1 K.B . |
| 5 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 6 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 7 | All modules which are selected as LATEST within the package , together with the package module itself , will be edited by LIFESPAN to produce a new baseline of approved modules . |
| 8 | All modules which are selected as Latest within the package , together with the package module itself , will be edited by LIFESPAN to produce a new baseline of approved modules . |
| 9 | ( iii ) It is established by authority binding on this court that a corporation , or ‘ near corporation , ’ created by Parliament has the right to sue in libel for injury to its reputation : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 and National Union of General and Municipal Workers v. Gillian [ 1946 ] K.B . 81. ( iv ) |
| 10 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 11 | All the fifteen studies of this reviewed by Box suggest a strong association ( over time or cross-sectionally ) between economic inequality and crime in general ( though this is not true of five studies on homicide specifically ) ( Box , 1987 , pp. 86–98 ) . |
| 12 | In any event , it was clear , when the Education ( Corporal Punishment ) Bill 1985 was being considered by Parliament following the ruling in Campbell and Cosans , that to give parents a choice over whether or not their children should receive corporal punishment was justifiable in principle but practically unworkable . |
| 13 | A BACK injury aggravated by polo forced the Prince of Wales to pull out of the Garter ceremony today and cancel plans to attend Royal Ascot . |
| 14 | When selecting projects , the criteria applied by management indicate a fear of the high risk of the market . |
| 15 | The solicitors applied by summons to have the claims against them struck out on the ground that on a true construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) the S.I.B . |
| 16 | This is seen as the first sign that Soviet nuclear scientists , who are threatened by redundancy following the disintegration of the union , will seek to sell their skills to the highest bidders . |
| 17 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 18 | A regulatory body will have to be empowered by law to administer the new rules ; however , since the proposed Directive allows the regulatory authority to delegate its powers to a private body , there is no reason why the Panel in its present form should not be given the necessary authority with the result that changes in day-to-day practice may prove to be minimal . |
| 19 | Within ten years those youthful county councils had been empowered by Parliament to levy a rate in order to provide scholarships for pupils in elementary school to attend secondary schools . |
| 20 | Most can be shaped by hand to get a personal fit . |
| 21 | Once the calendar timescale has been produced using dendrochronology , groups of ten or twenty tree rings are dated by radiocarbon to provide the y-axis of the calibration curve . |
| 22 | The unlikelihood of the urban parish continuing to exhibit the features of a self-standing community has also been revealed by research showing the way in which kinship and friendship contacts are kept up over ever increasing geographical distances , largely because of mass car and telephone ownership . |
| 23 | Mr Gorbachev may well use his powers to rule by decree to push the reform through . |
| 24 | But suppose there is change of government and that the newly elected political party puts greater store by the containment of inflationary pressure , being prepared by implication to tolerate a higher unemployment rate than the previous government . |
| 25 | Such demographic changes wrought by industrialism meant the decline of rural parishes and the creation of a new urbanised and industrial poor . |
| 26 | ‘ The constitutional function performed by courts of justice as interpreters of the written law laid down in Acts of Parliament is often described as ascertaining ‘ the intention of Parliament ; ’ but what this metaphor , though convenient , omits to take into account is that the court , when acting in its interpretative role , as well as when it is engaged in reviewing the legality of administrative action , is doing so as mediator between the state in the exercise of its legislative power and the private citizen for whom the law made by Parliament constitutes a rule binding upon him and enforceable by the executive power of the state . |
| 27 | This means that rules of intestacy made by Parliament govern the division of their money , property and possessions . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) The offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares offered , and limiting a period ( not being less than fourteen days ) within which the offer , if not accepted , will be deemed to be declined . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares offered , and limiting a period ( not being less than fourteen days ) within which the offer , if not accepted , will be deemed to be declined . |
| 30 | But the reluctance to take account of the new obligations imposed by government to consider the housing needs of the working classes also derived from more political motives . |