Example sentences of "[art] [noun] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public policy in a number of countries has been increasingly exercised since the mid-1970s by the problems of controlling state expenditure and increasing the efficiency of the state 's activities . |
| 2 | The coverage by the columnists diverged from that in the main news stories on this question . |
| 3 | She was hounded under the Protectorate by the commissioners for compounding , who persecuted many republican MPs . |
| 4 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 5 | The tannins affect the absorption by the birds ' guts of certain essential nutrients causing low growth rates which are sometimes fatal . |
| 6 | Dr James was unrepentant last night , saying that any distress comes from the threat to the service and not the decision by the doctors to inform patients about it . |
| 7 | But the decision by the SPS , which dominates the republic 's parliament , indicated Serbia would reject the proposal . |
| 8 | The short press release announced the decision by the trustees to postpone the exhibition on the ground that potential loss of life in the Gulf made it insensitive to proceed . |
| 9 | I could accept the decision by the Referees ' Committee if my marks had gone down . |
| 10 | There may also have been earlier differences in the decision whether to take ‘ no further action ’ after arrest , or indeed in the decision by the police to arrest . |
| 11 | In 1691 Gascoyne mapped the estates of James Cecil , third Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] ; the following year he mapped Sayes Court for John Evelyn [ q.v. ] , and in 1692 he was directed by Samuel Travers , surveyor of land revenue to King William and Queen Mary , to make a survey of the ‘ Mannor of East Greenwich in Kent ’ following the grant by the monarchs of ‘ the house at Greenwich to be a hospital for wounded seamen ’ . |
| 12 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 13 | Religious rituals and the arts have been , and still are , concerned with handling this unresolved problem handed down to the present by the institutions which preserve the archaic heritage of mankind , especially religions . |
| 14 | The schedule of meetings begins with a presentation of the proposals by the Developers , on Friday 1 November 1991 at 2.00 pm in Room 1.5 in the Regional Chambers , to which all members of the Council and appropriate officials are invited . |
| 15 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |
| 16 | When it began , their relationship was dragged over the coals by the tabloids . |
| 17 | The settlement by the waters |
| 18 | It was an accumulation and discretionary trust but X ( the settlor ) could benefit in the event of the revocation of the settlement by the trustees under TA 1988 , s673 ( revocable settlements , reversion of property ) . |
| 19 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 20 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 21 | Already Scathach was envying the look of the warrior by the trees . |
| 22 | After entering the body , there is an immediate moult , and the L4 travel to the liver in the bloodstream , either from the intestine by the portal stream , or from the skin by the lungs and systemic circulation . |
| 23 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 24 | The assessment by the police is to eliminate erm any officer that er has psychopathic tendencies or er on the other side of the coin , to eliminate those officers that erm might be so timid that they would n't be able to perform the duties should it be necessary for them to fire a weapon . |
| 25 | It will not be enough to define a term as a " condition " or " warranty " , for a court may decide that the parties did not intend any breach of a term labelled a " condition " to give rise to a right to withdraw , and thus disregard the label given to the term by the parties ( Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 26 | The attempt by the Americans to retain control over both military and industrial use of atomic energy , doomed to failure as it was , runs like a thread through this fascinating memoir . |
| 27 | It was the attempt by the men to boycott these employers , energetically undertaken , that had eventually led to the collapse , through debt , of the Northern District Board ( the predecessor of the STA ) in 1847. " - In later years several of the STA 's " forward movements " , that is claims for higher pay or shorter hours , began in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | The attempt by the schools to use opt-out law to prevent closure has led to a row between Strathclyde and the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 29 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 30 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |