Example sentences of "the [noun pl] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first follows the attempts by the first-person narrator to reconstruct the life and inner motivation of the Triestine man of letters , Roberto ( ‘ Bobi ’ ) Bazlen ( 1902–1965 ) , whose literary ambitions were realized solely through the promotion of other writers and never through a completed work of his own . |
| 2 | Over a century later , in Britain 's American colonies , what began as a defence of traditional rights against the attempts by the British Crown to impose new taxation , became an affirmation of universal and secular liberty — the rights of man . |
| 3 | I can certainly give my hon. Friend an assurance that , were the investigations by the Serious Fraud Office to produce evidence of fraud that would have to be considered by those involved in criminal prosecutions of if there were claims that the Occupational Pensions Board had been negligent or in any other way culpable of failure to carry out its duties as imposed by the law , those matters would be considered with great care . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind the policy modifications imposed on the Urban Programme after 1979 , what kind of supportive environment was it providing for the cities by the mid-to-late 1980s ? |
| 5 | The next review by the commission was completed in 1982 and challenged in the courts by the Labour party . |
| 6 | Whether the tour ( which overrides a ban on loans in Barnes 's will and was shepherded through the courts by the National Gallery 's director emeritus , J. Carter Brown , and the wealthy collector Walter Annenberg ; see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) should be taking place at all remains a matter of debate . |
| 7 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 8 | Council leader , Coun John Williams ( Lab ) , when told of the plans by The Northern Echo said : ‘ I will need to find out much more about this before we can decide we can support it or not . ’ |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he expects to announce the terms of the inquiry into the plans by the National Grid Company to erect new overhead power lines in North Yorkshire and Cleveland . |
| 10 | Efforts to preserve a Besm6 , which was the last indigenous supercomputer made by the Russians by the British Computer Conservation Society , indicate some of the problems . |
| 11 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 12 | We would n't like to be hauled over the coals by the veterinary council for unprofessional conduct . ’ |
| 13 | Alcohol deprives boozers of their livers and their memories , and ends the lives of all too many innocents who get smashed on the roads by the inebriated . |
| 14 | If a section 38 agreement is not available , in due course the house purchaser 's solicitors are likely to hold a retention from the sale proceeds , pending adoption of the roads by the local authority . |
| 15 | The afternoon was clear but cold and there was ice on the ground and frost still in the flowerbeds by the main gate . |
| 16 | This will permit appropriate fees and expenses to be paid directly to the coaches by the governing body concerned . |
| 17 | Boeing components are alleged to have been sold to the Iranians by the London-based Aer Lingus controlled spares company Alpex , which has since been wound up . |
| 18 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 19 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 20 | Come five o ’ clock on a Saturday afternoon you 'd bundle your way out of the pictures , delirious with image overload , to be hit between the eyes by the blinding light of day and a balmy blanket of heat . |
| 21 | In July 1297 Winchelsey had news of a still more recent document , issued in February , conceding the whole principle of taxation of the clergy by the French king . |
| 22 | The Minister of Education , Mr Yitzhak Navon , said yesterday that he was suspending a ban on the songs by the state-run Broadcasting Authority pending a final decision by the attorney-general . |
| 23 | The protests ranged from sensitive lobbying of the superpowers by the moderate Arab nations to the issuing of terrorist threats by Lebanese-based Moslem extremists [ see p. 37266 for statements by Arab Co-operation Council on the issue ] . |
| 24 | As the war continued and the death toll at sea mounted , Wilson 's patriotism , his sense of outrage at the methods by the German government to break the Allied blockade and the strength of his anti-German sentiments grew until they became almost pathological . |
| 25 | His nomination was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on June 10 and the Senate on June 13 , despite the boycott of the sessions by the largest party , the pro-Aristide National Front for Change and Democracy ( FNCD ) . |
| 26 | With a broad historical perspective , one can see the influence of the ‘ paradigm ’ of the natural sciences on the emerging social sciences , and also certain pressures exerted on the arts by the latter . |
| 27 | A great welcome was given to all the visitors by the Rotary Club , by the K-Post 11 of the American Legion Auxiliary , by the British Ceremony Committee and by the Mayor . |
| 28 | The least powerful fell first , their brains burned and their flesh stripped to the bones by the corrosive power they had unleashed . |
| 29 | Dusan Zivkovic , aged 65 , a Yugoslav Serb who was handed to the communists by the British but managed to escape , said he had come to court to find the culprits and ‘ nail the bastards ’ who had sent his fellow countrymen to their deaths . |
| 30 | It was rediscovered in the mid-1950s by the leading authority on Chinese science and technology , Dr Joseph Needham of Cambridge . |