Example sentences of "[num] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first decree was issued in 1972 by the military regime in alliance with the local bourgeoisie , who clearly expected to benefit from the initiative . |
| 2 | There was considerable interest in the creation of marine zoological laboratories , the first of which was established at Naples in 1872 by the German zoologist Anton Dohrn ( 1840–1909 ) . |
| 3 | World champion Hendry was beaten 9-6 by the 21-year-old Glaswegian in their Coalite World Matchplay quarter-final at Doncaster in a repeat performance of last month 's UK championships at Preston , where McManus won 9-8 . |
| 4 | The UK government formally notified the German government on Nov. 9 that it had ratified the " two-plus-four " Treaty on the Final Settlement with respect to Germany , which had been signed on Sept. 12 by the two Germanies , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States [ see pp. 37717-18 ; for text see p. 37834 ] . |
| 5 | A constitutional arrangement on the division of powers , approved on Dec. 12 by the Federal Assembly , transferred considerable legislative and executive power from the centre to the two republics [ see p. 37922 ] . |
| 6 | According to results published on Oct. 12 by the Interior Ministry , a referendum the previous day overwhelmingly approved the dissolution of the People 's Assembly , and fresh elections were scheduled for Nov. 29 , with further elections if necessary on Dec. 6 . |
| 7 | The empire was in a state of decline which had begun with the havoc wrought in 1204 by the Fourth Crusade and was made worse by internal conflicts . |
| 8 | Like SunSoft ( UX No 414 ) , Cunningham says companies that might not have agreed to the effort in 1991 or 1992 are certain to be driven into the arms of the ABI 1993 by the impending Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 9 | Facts found in an evaluation , conducted in 1985 by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research , Bangladesh , revealed five reasons why the National Oral Rehydration Programme ought to be seen as an inappropriate and inefficient method of promoting oral rehydration therapy to the people of Bangladesh : Firstly , it was estimated that , based on numbers of reported cases of diarrhoea , 184 million packets of ORS were needed annually by the Bangladeshi population ( 1985 figure ) . |
| 10 | The duty of care concept was first expounded in 1985 by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution , which held that the duty owed to society to handle and dispose of waste properly rested with the individual or organisation producing it . |
| 11 | A free school was built in Sancton before 1609 by the local benefactor Sir Marmaduke Langdale , renowned for his bravery while fighting in the Civil War for Charles Stuart 's cause . |
| 12 | You will be entering with team 1 + 2 by the front entrance . |
| 13 | Malondialdehyde is a stable product of the conversion of endoperoxides to thromboxane A 2 by the microsomal enzyme thromboxane synthetase and is formed in equimolar amounts ( Diczfalusy et al , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | The first was the killing of two policemen on Jan. 2 by the Azanian People 's Liberation Army ( APLA — the military wing of the PAC ) . |
| 15 | The demonstrations were arranged by the Mongolian Democratic Union ( MDU ) , an organization formed in December 1989 [ see p. 37124 ] and given official recognition on Dec. 22 by the Mongolian parliament , the People 's Great Hural . |
| 16 | The pollution problems created in 1991 by the burning oil wells in Kuwait indicate the need for the United Nations to make deliberate large-scale devastation of the environment a ‘ war crime ’ for which victims could subsequently seek compensation and for which the perpetrators could be punished in the future . |
| 17 | [ See p. 38115 for comments in March 1991 by the then Bundesbank president Karl-Otto Pöhl . ] |
| 18 | Attention centred on a £55,000,000 loan made in July 1991 by the Swiss Bank Corporation to a unit of Headington Investments , a company owned by the Maxwell family . |
| 19 | The House of Representatives elected in July 1988 was dissolved in February 1991 by the military junta , which appointed a National Legislative Assembly in mid-March . |
| 20 | The authorities discounted the possibility that the former East German state security police ( " Stasi " ) had been behind the attack , despite confirmation on March 26 by the federal prosecutor that the Stasi had sheltered and trained RAF members since 1978 . |
| 21 | The action by troops loyal to Eyadema followed the decision on Nov. 26 by the High Council of the Republic ( the transitional government , led by Koffigoh — see p. 38425 ) to dissolve Eyadema 's former ruling party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , in accordance with a decision taken in August by the conference . |
| 22 | A censure motion introduced on Oct. 26 by the conservative opposition parties to protest against an " unrealistic " budget obtained only 261 of the 286 parliamentary votes necessary to defeat the government ; the Communist party abstained , rather than voting with the right as it had done in an earlier censure motion , in June 1992 [ see pp. 38977-78 ] . |
| 23 | Heath had left Number 10 by the front door . |
| 24 | A report published on Sept. 10 by the human rights group , Amnesty International accused the Myanma army of routinely ill-treating and murdering members of the Karen , Mon and Indian ethnic minorities , who were forced to act as porters in campaigns against insurgents . |
| 25 | The approaches made in 1759 by the Danish government to the United Provinces for the creation of a maritime union to defend neutral rights were only one of a series of proposals for some anti-British combination of this kind which culminated in the Armed Neutrality of 1780 . |
| 26 | Whitehaven in Cumbria was begun in 1660 by the local Lowther family and given a spacious grid of streets and a new harbour . |
| 27 | The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 20-27 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Orzággyülés ) , elected for a five-year term , of a new transitional constitution and electoral law which introduced a multiparty democratic system ( hitherto the sole legal party had been the Hungarian Socialist Worker 's Party , reorganised at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) . |
| 28 | The first eurobond was issued in 1963 by the Italian company Autostrada with a coupon of 52 per cent and an issue size of $15 million . |
| 29 | One model proposes crustal thickening through large-scale underthrusting by the leading edge of the Indian continent ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) , an idea first put forward as long ago as 1924 by the Swiss geologist , Emile Argand . |
| 30 | In return for an orderly resumption of work the government agreed ( i ) a general wage increase of 43 per cent for July to offset the inflationary effects of its current economic austerity programme , with a further review in August ; ( ii ) job security for and non-victimization of strikers ; ( iii ) compensation for public-sector workers made redundant between April 26 and July 21 , but not their reappointment ; ( iv ) the suspension of a programme to privatize land nationalized since 1979 by the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) government ; and ( v ) the retention of subsidies on public transport . |