Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : King George V and Queen Mary making an official visit to the Fylde Coast on 8 July 1913 , are watched by crowds in the grandstands provided by a parked line of tramcars , at a cost of one shilling each . |
| 2 | While the history of the press has been marked by cleavages between the rulers and the ruled , radio had been under the control of colonial administrators . |
| 3 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 4 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 5 | During the late 1940s and early 1950s the Communist movement was further weakened by splits in the parties of Mexico , Venezuela , Colombia , Argentina , Bolivia , Peru and Brazil — mostly over the questions of local tactics discussed above or because of rivalry for the party leadership . |
| 6 | The disposition of cathedrals from the earliest times onwards is well known , and early or important monastic sites can usually be identified , supported by estates in the ways already discussed . |
| 7 | Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making . |
| 8 | The bureaucracy is more analogous to groupings found in traditional societies , such as estates , than to class , with the fusion of economy and politics ; the authoritative allocation of positions in a hierarchy of ranks ; and the specification by rules of the duties and privileges corresponding to rank . |
| 9 | The record , many copies of which still turn up among the ditches and hedgerows at the leafier end of Whaddon , portrayed a hope and optimism belied by bailiffs at the turnstiles , and its hummability led players and supporters to see the coming season and decade as the dawning of a new age . |
| 10 | The traditional street has been replaced in this layout by walkways within the buildings and footpaths which connect to shops , services , garages and the elevated metro stations ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're worth a lot more than that , ’ said one director , who indicated that a counter move could yet be made by opponents of the Halls . |
| 12 | The wagon that carried her was waylaid and stolen by vagabonds in the forests of my domain , and in my lands she came to rest . ’ |
| 13 | The expert will in most cases want each party to send him a written submission accompanied by copies of the documents referred to or relied on in the submission . |
| 14 | Many of the courses presented were thoroughly and lovingly prepared by lecturers from the polytechnics who fought hard at meetings with the officers of the CNAA and its panels to ensure that the school-centred elements in their courses were given due emphasis . |
| 15 | The predictable seasonal changes are anticipated by birds through the changes of day length . |
| 16 | The deputies unanimously declared : " Immeasurable sorrow was caused by Germans to the peoples of the world during the time of National Socialism . |
| 17 | Budd Hopkins delivered what they wanted — and endless stream of stories about abductions , accompanied by sketches of the aliens and bizarre slides of the tiny wounds their probings had left on victims ' bodies . |
| 18 | It campaigned for free universal state pensions for everyone over the age of 65 , in order to combat the poverty created by the rejection of older workers by employers on the grounds of age . |
| 19 | Similar arguments for the need for flexibility were given by employers in the entertainments industry who recruit their seasonal staff on open-ended contracts and , more particularly , by employers In the holiday camps sector . |
| 20 | When a batch of orangs was ready for return to the forest they were put in crates and carried by porters up the banks and along the bed of the Bohorok river — the forest there is far too dense to walk through — and released at least 15 miles ( 24 km ) from the station . |
| 21 | The delay in issuing was caused by demands from the generators to keep part of their applications confidential , so as not to benefit commercial rivals . |
| 22 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 23 | That transaction-specific assets are organized by management rather than markets is explained by savings on the resources used to decide how to adjust to changes unanticipated at the start of the contract . |
| 24 | On this the evidence is conflicting , some studies finding that take-overs were value-creating , others that target shareholder gains were more that off-set by losses to the shareholders of the acquiring companies . |
| 25 | The pattern observed in Uganda , Nigeria and Ghana represents the same trend — a gentle but firm assumption of increasing control by ministries of the policies and mechanisms of curriculum planning . |
| 26 | Payment for the work is sometimes met by individuals , sometimes by kings , sometimes by organised churches and sometimes by nations through the taxpayers . |
| 27 | The police action sparked two days of rioting by supporters of the women . |
| 28 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 29 | Conflict may also be caused by disputes about the boundaries of authority For example : |
| 30 | This was supplemented by visits to the towns and villages of the county to interview relatives and search in graveyards and parish registers for biographical detail : ‘ It was simple curiosity . |