Example sentences of "of [noun pl] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 starved of aphids by the pesticides .
2 The answer is that the London Rubber Company , Hoffman LaRoche , Kelloggs , the Central Electricity Generating Board , and the National Coal Board have all been the subject of investigations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
3 This point can be proved in the majority of cases by the observations of the reporting officer .
4 The research will involve the study of official records kept of the exercise of powers , observation of the handling of cases by the police , and interviews with police officers of all ranks ; it will be conducted in three separate subdivisions presenting different kinds of policing problems .
5 Their aim was to partition the set of pictures by the shapes of the engines and wagons .
6 EVER since the US presidential election , the news and social commentators have been busy at the old old story of explaining the use of words by the Americans .
7 Analysis of the velocity distribution will reveal a ‘ vibrational spectrum ’ in the form of a spectrum of energy-losses by the particles .
8 Some judges and lawyers saw in the development a serious threat to the independent impartial adjudication of disputes by the courts .
9 Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances .
10 A ceremony on Oct. 5 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar near Kiev was attended by Jewish , German and US delegations .
11 An authoritative Soviet study on the diplomacy of the developing states , prefaced by Firyubin a couple of years before his ASEAN tour , had arrived at a definition of neutralisation on the basis of declarations by the statesmen of Southeast Asia .
12 There could be 2x + y , where x is the number both of the members appointed to a board of directors by the owners of the company , and of the trade union members ; and y the number of directors to be co-opted .
13 On Friday , August 13 , I was asked by your reporter to respond to criticism of banks by the Consumers ' Association .
14 an escape of electricity stored and used by the defendants in working their tramcars , interfered with the sending of messages by the plaintiffs through their submarine cable .
15 The basic conflict of interest involves the exploitation of workers by the capitalists .
16 In Notting Hill , for example , there were allegations of assaults by the police , and the planting of drugs , while in Nottingham a number of forced entries into black people 's homes and a series of street searches caused widespread anger .
17 Whilst the first four roles provide the major inspiration and leadership , this role provides for implementation of ideas by the roleholders ' ability to translate general ideas and plans into practice .
18 It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible .
19 The adversary relationship also encourages a constant escalation of promises by the parties , each seeking to out-promise the other in order to win the all-or-nothing spoils of a general election victory .
20 The general damages for conspiracy and the alternative damages for deceit are claimed to include the following : ( a ) moneys ‘ expended upon the C.M.C. ’ by the plaintiffs after the commencement of the company ; ( b ) legal costs in fighting B.M.T. ; ( c ) the stain and stigma of bankruptcy ; ( d ) loss of earnings by the plaintiffs ; ( e ) the effect upon the health of the first plaintiff ; ( f ) loss of reputation of the first plaintiff ; ( g ) distress and suffering ; ( h ) loss of opportunity to develop the centre ; and ( i ) other consequential loss .
21 posed like a nest of tables by the ropes .
22 This draft also has a separate provision relating to the imposition of conditions by the parties to a treaty , which a third party must observe if it wishes to take advantage of the relevant right .
23 In such circumstances , it would still be under an obligation to give notification of its intention to march , and the courts should perhaps hold that no offence is committed under section 11(7) if notice has been given , however shortly before the proposed ‘ counter march , ’ where this would still permit the imposition of conditions by the police , if necessary , under section 12 .
24 The real origins of the law centre movement are usually attributed to the publication of pamphlets by the lawyers of the Conservative and Labour parties and the individual initiative of pioneers who became impatient at the slowness of the official bodies to respond to the pressure for change .
25 The maintenance of diplomats by the states to which they were sent , still common in the sixteenth century , ebbed away in western Europe in that which followed .
26 As to the monthly payments , we have already said that we see no sufficient grounds for disturbing the judge 's findings that the receipts of sums by the plaintiffs from the defendant after Miss Guile left the flat represented no more than was due from him on the footing that he was liable only for monthly payments of £86.66 .
27 In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime .
28 But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners .
29 We have already reduced the opportunity for abuse by our introduction of tape-recorded interviews of suspects by the police .
30 Deputy hooker Ian Jeffery drafted in at blindside flanker typified the courageous tackling of the home team to avert a glut of scores by the visitors the County pack plying back enough possession to win a dozen games .
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