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

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1 There are a considerable number of references to solicitors in existing legislation and , when S.9 was brought into force , these references were applied to incorporated practices by the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practices Order .
2 [ as amended by the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Repeals Rules
3 The overseas office of an MNP is in a slightly different position ; the solicitors practising from that office ( including all the solicitor partners , whether resident overseas or not ) are governed by the Solicitors ' Overseas Practice Rules 1990 , and solicitor partners will be responsible for ensuring the office 's compliance .
4 By the moonbeams ' mystic light 'T IS the shadow on the wall . ’
5 A year earlier he witnessed the Sex Pistols debacle at the Lesser Free Trade Hall , Manchester , a legendary bombastic event bludgeoned into rock history books by the Pistols ' typical blind arrogance and contrived but destructive chaos .
6 This argument is crucial , if not yet fully absorbed , by the Conservatives ' current strategists .
7 The crowd is delighted by the gods ' high spirits and pleasure in the dance .
8 In hotel and catering accounts , the sales day book is replaced by the visitors ' tabular ledger , which is simply a form of analysed or columnar book-keeping .
9 My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today .
10 This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war .
11 The opening of relations had largely been dictated by the powers ' own interests in the East Asian region , but now the issues became far more complex ; account had to be taken of factors as diverse as Japan 's economic imperatives , the growth of Japanese military power and the emergence of national sentiment in response to foreign contact .
12 The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians ' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish .
13 Results of one investigation suggested that first order births to very young women are disadvantaged by the women 's physiological immaturity and its effect upon the fetus .
14 After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier .
15 The evidence on housing interiors given by the Women 's Labour League to the Tudor Walters Committee on Housing Design at the end of the War proved influential , although housing policy generally was formulated more from a fear of unrest by working class men than with the needs of working class women in mind .
16 Environmental claims made for disposable nappies by their manufacturer , Proctor and Gamble , have been challenged by in independent survey commissioned by the Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) .
17 Paper mills in Britain which are breaking the law by discharging more effluent into rivers than permitted are nearly all escaping prosecution , according to a report published by the Women 's Environmental Network , an independent pressure group .
18 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 ) .
19 Similarly , the letters published by the Women 's Cooperative Guild ( WCG ) in 1915 regarding the maternity experiences of 160 of their members whose husbands earned between 24 and 40 / a week and who mostly had been married during the 1890s , showed that women with large families bitterly regretted it , chiefly because of the hard labour necessary to sustain a large family .
20 An 1894 survey by the Women 's Cooperative Guild showed that 50 per cent of working mothers left their children with grandmothers or other kin ( whom they usually paid ) , while the remainder used neighbours as childminders .
21 This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home .
22 Although only one of these relationships is statistically significant — that between employment work satisfaction and dissatisfaction with life generally — both are in the direction suggested by the women 's own observations .
23 This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important .
24 The truth is that C is a convenient scapegoat for those upset by The Shamen 's commercial ambitions and looking for a way to convince themselves that , underneath it all , Colin 's still credible .
25 The material used was cheap , readily available — very often with attractive photographs or other illustrated matter — and took up space unfilled by the papers ' own journalists .
26 There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives .
27 This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students ' official youth organization .
28 Of more value was an examination of employment status by the students ' own assessments of the subject content of their research work .
29 Walesa 's call was supported by the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club , a pro-Walesa parliamentary caucus , and by the Centre Alliance and the Green Party , but was opposed by the Democratic Party and the Democratic Left parliamentary groups which argued that the dissolution issue should be broached only after the electoral law and constitutional amendments had been adopted .
30 By the watchfires ' waning light he could discern a handful of ghostly figures flitting about nearby .
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