Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 2 | To some extent , of course , these other agencies are often filtered through the family and evaluated by the parents on behalf of the children : the mother may ‘ censor ’ the amount and kind of television that enters the home , or parents may discourage , with varying degrees of subtlety , their children 's choice of certain ‘ undesirable ’ friends . |
| 3 | The ending of the strike depended on acceptance of the agreement by the miners on Jan. 4 . |
| 4 | The ‘ third element ’ were frustrated by the restrictions on zemstvo initiative imposed by both government and by gentry deputies . |
| 5 | To this counsel for the Director had replied that the plain purpose and effect of the Act was to deprive suspected persons of the right to silence in cases which were reasonably considered by the Director to involve serious or complex fraud , whilst mitigating this departure from normal constitutional principles by the restrictions on admissibility created by section 2(8) . |
| 6 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |
| 7 | There had been a house here before , built by the Pagets on land they had bought from Burton Abbey . |
| 8 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |
| 9 | The War Crimes Bill , which provided a legal framework for the prosecution of suspected war criminals and had been rejected by the House of Lords in June 1990 [ see p. 37889 ] , was reintroduced in March 1991 and again effectively rejected by the Lords on April 26 . |
| 10 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 11 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 12 | The crowd also demanded the removal of the two remaining statues of Stalin from central Ulan Bator , one of which was taken down by the authorities on Jan. 16 . |
| 13 | The SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric , who on Oct. 25 had called for a civil disobedience campaign against the language law , was in consequence recalled from the Federal Assembly Presidium by the deputies on Nov. 26 . |
| 14 | Cruz admitted unfreezing the bank accounts ; his claim that he had the legal authority to do so was rejected by the courts on Nov. 17 . |
| 15 | If the Home Secretary is not to be guided by the judges on retribution and deterrence , where else can he look for guidance ? |
| 16 | If the Home Secretary is not to be guided by the judges on retribution and deterrence , where else can he look for guidance ? ’ |
| 17 | If the Home Secretary is not to be guided by the judges on retribution and deterrence , where else can he look for guidance ? |
| 18 | BY their defence the defendants pleaded ( 1 ) that the letter of January 3 , 1940 , constituted an agreement that the rent reserved should be £1,250 only , and that such agreement related to the whole term of the lease , ( 2 ) in the alternative , that the plaintiff company were estopped from alleging that the rent exceeded £1,250 per annum , and ( 3 ) as a further alternative , that by failing to demand rent in excess of £1,250 before their letter of September 21 , 1945 ( received by the defendants on September 24 ) , they had waived their rights in respect of any rent , in excess of that at the rate of £1,250 , which had accrued up to September 24 , 1945 . |
| 19 | As the two fish trades came under the same livery company , they may be considered as one ; grocers , bakers and haberdashers came next with a median of £26.13s. 4d. , closely followed by the dyers on £25 . |
| 20 | The main yarn in feeder 1 knits the needles selected by the blanks on punchcard or electronic programme . |
| 21 | One very important factor is , Management can only incur such expenses which must be related to cash available , this should eliminate any concern by the Residents on points 8–9 and 10 . |
| 22 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 23 | In December 1989 the following security developments were reported : ( i ) the seizure by the police on Dec. 5 of a large arms cache and the arrest of five people suspected of being members of a white extremist assassination squad ; ( ii ) the acquittal of 12 police officers and a soldier on Dec. 11 by the Cape Town Supreme Court in South Africa 's first private prosecution for murder , arising from the 1985 " Trojan Horse " ambush in which three people were killed , and brought by the father of Shaun Magmoed , 16 , one of those killed in the attack ; and ( iii ) the setting aside on Dec. 15 of the convictions against all 11 defendants in the " Delmas " treason trial , which had ended in December 1988 [ see p. 36913 ] . |
| 24 | In addition , it was felt that the problems were made worse by the files on loan being the only master copy ; additionally , when files were held by staff for excessively long periods , a backlog of items for filing could accumulate . |
| 25 | Nobel claims that the terms of an agreement between itself and the banks over its capital contribution are invalid because of the unlawful pressure applied by the banks on Nobel — including the curtailment of the company 's credits . |
| 26 | Still , there was a good deal of stealthy coming and going within the building — this being ignored apparently by the men on duty in the guardchamber . |
| 27 | In Kirchberg , small flower-decked open air cafes , are dotted about , and we defy anyone not to be tempted by the gateaux on offer . |
| 28 | Above all it takes seriously the work done by the pupils on site , and incorporates it into further classwork . |
| 29 | The results of the summit were contained in the " Panama Declaration " , issued by the participants on Dec. 11 . |
| 30 | Stoppages called by the unions on May 8 , 14 , 17 and 20 for improvements in pay and conditions were strategically timed for the run-up to the local elections . |