Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a borrower was systematically unable to meet commitments by the required date he became insolvent , the final stage when all his remaining assets were repossessed . |
| 2 | To set laws by the few jaws — |
| 3 | Grachev met his Georgian counterpart Tengiz Kitovani in Moscow on Dec. 31 to discuss demands by the Georgian parliament for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Abkhazia . |
| 4 | And indeed , at the summit today in Brussels , John Major is going to fight plans by the European Commission for a one hundred billion pound job creation programme across the Community . |
| 5 | With all the sense of timing learnt as champion jockey , he creates situation after situation of rising suspense to hold readers by the hundred thousand glued to the battle of wits between hero and villains that he has devised . |
| 6 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 7 | The Hitchcock show , which takes place at Islington Powerhaus on October 17 ( billed as a benefit for Bosnian Refugee Relief ) , was to feature performances by The Soft Boys and Peter Buck . |
| 8 | We met up , and I told him that I intended to collect pictures by the Avant-garde artists . |
| 9 | The force was regarded as a necessary guarantee to deter incursions by the Iraqi army into the zone of northern Iraq where coalition troops had from April until July been providing protection for Iraqi Kurds [ see pp. 38127-28 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] . |
| 10 | One sign : when Seattle started to charge citizens by the bagful , charity shops found their doorsteps knee-deep in unwanted gifts . |
| 11 | This means that there are no Soviet officers to prevent excesses by the Romanian army or to help the demonstrators . |
| 12 | Ulster Unionist Jim Kirkpatrick said Mrs Robinson 's visits were deliberately timed to follow visits by the British Royal family , and he claimed the move was part of a ‘ joint sovereignty policy . ’ |
| 13 | Fourteen polytechnics , including three in the North-East , were given approval to become universities by the Privy Council Office under the Government 's higher education reforms . |