Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |
| 3 | Some eruptions have become major historical events , since many of the world 's greatest natural disasters have been associated with volcanoes , either directly through the effects of explosions and suffocation by volcanic gases , or indirectly through the much further-reaching effects of tidal waves triggered off by an eruption , such as those resulting from the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 . |
| 4 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 5 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 6 | Recommendations arising from assessments carried out by an educational psychologist , or from medical records containing information from ophthalmological examination , or from an ophthalmic optician prescribing low vision aids , will need to be translated into practice in the day-to-day classroom situation , and specialist help from an advisory teacher is invaluable here . |
| 7 | Words such as tramp , hobo and vagrant offended him , terms bandied about by an unsympathetic society . |
| 8 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 9 | A UN convoy which set off for Srebrenica yesterday was turned back by Serbian police backed up by an armoured car . |