Example sentences of "to [noun] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1988 the register of title has been open to inspection by the general public . |
| 2 | Japan urged repayment by North Korea of accumulated debts of 80,000 million yen ( US$580 million ) , and repeated earlier calls for North Korea to open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency . |
| 3 | They also agreed that it was imperative that the North Korean government open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency . |
| 4 | The firm 's accounting practices should be open to inspection by the local professional body . |
| 5 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 6 | The dips in the reflectance curve for healthy vegetation at 0.4 and 0.6–0.8 m are due to absorption by the growing vegetation to provide energy for the process of photosynthesis. ( b ) The actual reflectance spectrum of an object ( upper diagram ) and the spectrum recorded by a broad-band sensor such as Landsat 's Multispectral Scanner . |
| 7 | A starter regimen was used , with infusion of 60% of the calculated total caloric requirements on the first day ; this was progressively increased to 100% by the third day . |
| 8 | Less than a mile away , locked in all-day talks with Mr Major , Mr Yeltsin was promised an official trip to Moscow by the Prime Minister after his plea for a royal visit was turned down . |
| 9 | Against this background the Soviet leader Gorbachev chose a visit to Moscow by the Algerian President to seize the diplomatic initiative by calling for superpower talks on the nuclear and naval demilitarisation of the Mediterranean Sea , for the transformation of this region in a military sense into a neutral zone for the naval forces of external powers . |
| 10 | Itzhak Moda'i , the Finance Minister , and Yuval Ne'eman , Minister of Science and Energy , had been invited to Moscow by the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry , and discussions during their visit centred on economic and scientific co-operation . |
| 11 | The agreement on the Dahlak facilities apparently was reached in November 1980 during a visit to Moscow by the Ethiopian leader , Mengistu Haile Mariam . |
| 12 | By September , a few weeks before an official visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Tun Razak , the Soviet press described the ZOPFAN initiative as ‘ an idea that can not be underestimated ’ . |
| 13 | Thus during a visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Datuk Hussein Onn , in September 1979 Kosygin expressed support for the ZOPFAN resolution since its implementation ‘ would establish a precondition for the widening of the process of détente over all the Asian continent ’ . |
| 14 | It appears that only particular components of the reading process are susceptible to impairment by the irrelevant speech , and the research aims to specify these . |
| 15 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 16 | DENNIS SKINNER , the Labour Party chairman , won loud cheers from conference delegates yesterday when he demanded the return of water to public ownership without compensation to shareholders by the next Labour government . |
| 17 | In the study by Brainard and Perry , this fear is also expressed by Dornbusch , who argues that the increased pressures of competition induced by the SEM will lead to calls by the lower productivity member states to increase the levels of external protection to allow them to maintain their threatened industrial structures . |
| 18 | Equally , parents have no right to insist on the provision of single-sex schooling , nor to payment by the local authority of fees for educating the child in a single-sex school in the private sector . |
| 19 | It depended on our signing indemnity waivers , freeing the military authorities from responsibility should we be blown to smithereens by the unexploded shells then deemed to be scattered freely across both Range West and Range East . |
| 20 | Caroline Thomas , editor of the Biggles books , accepts the books reflect their period , but makes the point that the changing perception of words actually leaves Biggles ' use of a word like nigger open to misinterpretation by the modern reader . |
| 21 | The , in the last few months alone , we 've also had visits to Brussels by the General Secretary , the Deputy General Secretary , a number of Regional Secretaries , political officers , training officers and others . |
| 22 | In response to demands by the new governments of Czechoslovakia and Hungary [ see p. 37195 ] and in line with the Soviet undertaking given in December 1989 to bring home all its foreign-based troops by the year 2000 [ see p. 37225 ] , the Soviet Union agreed during late February and early March to withdraw its troops from Czechoslovakia and Hungary by mid-1991 . |
| 23 | Some 300 minshuku are recommended to foreigners by the Japanese National Tourist Office ( JNTO ) who also advise on pension selection . |
| 24 | The resumption of relations , suspended by Indonesia in 1967 [ see below for background ] , was planned to coincide with a visit to Indonesia by the Chinese Premier , Li Peng . |
| 25 | The major foreign policy event during 1990 was the restoration in August of diplomatic relations with China , during a visit to Indonesia by the Chinese Premier Li Peng . |
| 26 | HCO 3 - absorption was reduced by 6.25 µg cholera toxin and changed to secretion by the higher doses ( Table V ) . |
| 27 | Timber companies could destroy Siberia 's forests within the next 40-50 years , according to research by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis . |
| 28 | British farmers are growing too few varieties of the main food crops , according to research by the Sustainable Agriculture , Food and Environment Alliance ( SAFE ) . |
| 29 | Global warming is likely to produce significant changes in Britain 's wild flora , according to research by the environmental group , Plantlife . |
| 30 | Plants may respond to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by conserving water , creating a drier world in the future , according to research by the National Environment Research Council . |