Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ . |
| 2 | The establishment of the NIRC was a political act aimed at trying to contain trade union power within particular rules prescribed by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 3 | It 's not clear how many people participated in the event in Britain or elsewhere by carrying out local ascents , raising sponsorship for the ten lifeline projects designated by the United Nations . |
| 4 | This is achieved by limiting the range of cases heard by the High Court , by extending the jurisdiction of the county court , ensuring that , in most cases , the same remedies are available in the county court as in the High Court , amending the transfer system , reviewing the costs sanction system that applies when a case is taken inappropriately in the High Court , improving the trial facilities at county courts by concentrating trials at centres where continuous trial facilities are available , providing new centres , creating a new tier of Circuit judges to take additional civil jurisdiction burdens , and increasing the number of people eligible for appointment as county court and district registrars or district judges . |
| 5 | The first cases heard by the special courts had been on Sept. 6 , involving charges of financial irregularities against three former ministers , Jehangir Badar ( whose case was dismissed on Sept. 12 on grounds of insufficient evidence ) , Khwaja Ahmed Tariq Rahim , and Ahmed Khan Maneka . |
| 6 | If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only . |
| 7 | Rather , the reasons given by the young people followed a consistent pattern of circumstances . |
| 8 | If the planning application is persisted with , I support the plea for calling it in , for the reasons given by the hon. Member for Beaconsfield . |
| 9 | I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev . |
| 10 | That committee , which had its first meeting last month , will examine progress on local programmes and will co-ordinate action in response to joint plans developed by the two cross-border communities . |
| 11 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 12 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
| 13 | The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary . |
| 14 | New products developed by the best-performing machine-tool makers tended to start their lives with ‘ fuzzy ’ specifications , allowing for significant design changes before they reached the customer . |
| 15 | A survey of 106 health authorities undertaken by the National Association of Health Authorities in 1987 showed that most were facing severe financial pressures and taking emergency measures to meet them , such as closing wards on a temporary basis , cancelling elective operations , drawing on reserves and delaying creditor payments . |
| 16 | It hears complaints and appeals brought by or against EC institutions , member states or individuals , and gives preliminary rulings on cases referred by the national courts . |
| 17 | In the UK this problem has also occurred in the celebrated series of Factortame cases referred by the English courts to the European Court of Justice . |
| 18 | There is a contradiction between the trade-liberalisation policies undertaken by the Eastern and Central European countries and their wish to join an economic community . |
| 19 | Party members were further prohibited from joining or affiliating to the " proscribed organizations " ( groups listed by the National Executive and almost always under Communist Party control ) . |
| 20 | On Wednesday morning the prince , in his role as president of Scottish Business in the Community , will visit Craigmillar to see projects developed by the local community , local authority and other agencies , with help from the Friends of Craigmillar — a group of business leaders . |
| 21 | The monarchical tendencies typified by the Orange family were stoutly opposed by the republican forces which were strong in Holland , by far the most powerful province of the federation , and notably among the great merchants of Amsterdam . |
| 22 | Noting that the conferences opening on Dec. 15 would " take due account of the opinions given by the European Parliament and by the Commission under Article 236 of the Treaty " , the Council confirmed that the work would proceed in parallel , should be concluded " rapidly and at the same time " , and that their results would be submitted for ratification with a view to this taking place before the end of 1992 . |
| 23 | When industrialization takes place within a predominantly inegalitarian society , ‘ the technology and organizational work patterns developed by the dominant groups are likely to be those that reinforce , can be adapted to , or at least not incompatible with , existing hierarchical structure of social control ’ ( Fox 1980 , p. 182 ) . |
| 24 | The Punan groups of northwestern Borneo may have taken up their lifestyle initially from demand for various forest products prized by the Chinese over 1000 years ago . |
| 25 | Yet this ‘ floating value ’ might never have settled on their land , and obviously the aggregate of the values claimed by the individual owners is likely to be greatly in excess of a total valuation of all pieces of land . |
| 26 | Despite a spirited correspondence in both the London and Tyneside newspapers about the need for ventilation and the defects of Davy 's lamp , Holmes was unable to get his proposals considered by the rigid and uncompromising owners . |
| 27 | It reflects , for instance , the attitudes fostered by the German standards office through the DIN ( the Deutsche Industrie-Norm , or Industrial Standard ) . |
| 28 | Under Dej , the once affluent bourgeois residents of Herastau , the attractive northern suburb of Bucharest , were evicted and their houses occupied by the new élite . |
| 29 | To a significant extent , though , such towns have relatively low degrees of social inequality and have high levels of social provision , partly because of the particular policies pursued by the Labour Party controlled local councils . |
| 30 | Accounting as a means of collecting and reporting on patterns of expenditure has played a not insignificant role in shaping the policies pursued by the various public sector organizations . |