Example sentences of "to [noun] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotelier is required to keep a record of this information which is open to inspection by the police for a period of up to twelve months . |
| 2 | The Dictionary was available in northern Spain , though not used to advantage by the Spaniards . |
| 3 | Other metalepses include letters written to Mira by the characters she invents , and arguments with terrorists of her own creation . |
| 4 | Following his comments Shoob on Oct. 5 acceded to requests by the authorities to withdraw from the case and admitted that he had reached " certain preliminary conclusions " concerning the evidence . |
| 5 | Assistant Recorder Mr. J. Anthony told Youngman : ‘ You have an otherwise unblemished record but this was a serious offence of violence on police officers who are entitled to protection by the courts . ’ |
| 6 | When , in the mid-Eighties , Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons stated that ‘ red is the new black ’ ( narrowly beating Diana Vreelands ' ‘ pink is the navy blue of India ’ observation in the Pretentious Fashion Statement stakes ) , it appeared to have been taken to heart by the designers of football kits . |
| 7 | Spy fever gripped the country and a couple seen sketching the Royal Albert Bridge were , as a result of information given by a boy scout to a sergeant of the Royal Scots , arrested in the nearby tea gardens and escorted to Devonport by the police . |
| 8 | So , in the humanities , students ' views are neither the beginning nor the end ; they are based on evidence and understanding , and are subject to assessment by the students themselves and by others . |
| 9 | In response to proposals by the councillors , Mr Bleasdale had mooted a site on the suburban circle line , which has been proposed for reopening . |
| 10 | There were few records kept , and those were transferred on to tape by the Americans years ago . |
| 11 | Mary Hume-Rothery , for example , stressed that the sexual oppression of poor women brought to light by the acts was all the more reason to give women the vote and extend their educational provision , so that they could exercise formal political power . |
| 12 | One of the matters brought to light by the plans to operate trolleybuses , was the need to rationalize electric current supply and with that in mind a new agreement was drawn up with Croydon Corporation . |
| 13 | Well-known brands of chocolate have been found to contain detectable levels of Lindane , a banned pesticide , according to research by the Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) . |
| 14 | In 1695 and 1708 Parliament , stung to action by the clamours of the London merchants , passed legislation which compelled the Admiralty to allocate specified numbers of ships to the task of protecting commerce ; an unsuccessful Bill for the same purpose was introduced in 1742 . |
| 15 | The decision was ‘ fully open ’ to the former home secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , in the exercise of his judgment and was not open to review by the courts , said Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , sitting with Lords Justice Ralph Gibson and McCowan . |
| 16 | I was never invited to parties by the children I admired at school like Kathryn Watson who had a kilt pinned with a great silver safety pin . |
| 17 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |
| 18 | His very social nature is the source of conflicts and antagonisms that create resistance to socialization by the norms of the societies which have existed in the course of human history . |
| 19 | Blumer and Hauser maintained that ‘ the influence of motion pictures seems to be proportionate to the weakness of the family , school , church and neighbourhood ’ and that ‘ persons living in high-rate delinquency areas are most subject to influence by the themes of life treated by motion pictures ’ . |
| 20 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 21 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 22 | I threw away the guava core , and it too was torn to pieces by the children . |
| 23 | He would have been sliced to pieces by the fans down there . ’ |
| 24 | Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 25 | The new guidelines , extending the programme of economic liberalization , also authorized foreign pension and mutual funds , subject to approval by the Securities and Exchange Board of India ( SEBI ) , to acquire up to 24 per cent of any company 's equity . |
| 26 | At present funds are allocated to universities by the Universities Funding Committee on the basis of the research grants and scientific papers generated by departments . |
| 27 | Gradually , as they stole up to the Belmont stockade , Dulé distinguished different sounds — the fierce explosions of musket fire , the shrieking of the attackers , the yells and shouts and curses and groans of fighting men , their voices thick with fury , the different languages reduced to meaninglessness by the struggles , as men grappled , stabbed , battered , poked at one another 's eyes and even bit one another in the combat at close quarters ; while at a distance the screams of rage and pain merged with the volleys of musket fire and the singing of the arrows . |
| 28 | Grain size analysis of fine sediments depends not on direct measurement of the particles themselves but rather upon indirect computations of diameters based on observation of the grain behaviour in fluids or the response of the fluids to displacement by the grains . |
| 29 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 30 | The protocol , which was subject to ratification by the governments of the states concerned , effectively marked a compromise between those countries which favoured the eventual opening of Antarctica to mineral exploitation ( notably the United Kingdom and the United States ) , and those which supported proposals for the continent to be declared a " world park " ( which included Australia and France ) . |