Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme . |
| 2 | Acid rain was found in 85 per cent of samples taken from 23,000 locations in Japan in a three-month survey conducted earlier this year by the Japanese Consumers ' Co-operative Union ( JCCU ) . |
| 3 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 4 | Organised for children aged nine and over by the Young Ornithologists ' Club . |
| 5 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 6 | A statement issued by the Higher Women 's Council called upon all women to unify their efforts within the unified women 's councils in various locations . |
| 7 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 8 | Large military spending took place during the war years of 1914–18 , followed by the Allied countries ' demands for huge reparations in the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 9 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 10 | At the same time the clergyman-poet Johann Rist ( 1607–67 ) provided a focus for song-composition , comparable with Simon Dach , at Hamburg , a city which , like Königsberg , was untouched by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 11 | The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August . |
| 12 | The ‘ politics ’ of the motor car throughout the inter-war years depended to a large extent on the vigorous leadership given by the private motorists ' main organization , the Automobile Association . |
| 13 | The London Transport strike of 1937 was an unofficial protest by the Communist-led Busmen 's Rank and File Movement against agreements reached between London Transport and the busmen 's own union , the Transport and General Workers . |
| 14 | The system for returns remains the same , with requests to return authorised by the various publishers ' reps . |
| 15 | In 1897 she supported moves , viewed with dismay by the established women 's societies , to found a separate women 's university to examine students at Oxford , Cambridge , and Royal Holloway College , London . |
| 16 | The nineteenth-century approach to Nature study was influenced by the middle classes ' growing commitment to hard work as the key to achievement . |
| 17 | A similar statement was issued by the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association ( RRA ) , which took the opportunity to inform the IDA , Cork County Council and the IIRS that they were opposing applications to dump asbestos both at Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 18 | The Government also rejected another move by the Labour peers ' former leader , Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos , a former Secretary for Wales , declaring Welsh an official language . |
| 19 | The exhibition presented by the Irish women 's group focused on Irish women 's lives in Ireland and Scotland in the last century , not on ‘ promoting and peddling pro-Irish Republican publications and propaganda ’ ! |
| 20 | This fringe left-wing newspaper was produced by the Irish Workers ' Group , a Trotskyist groupuscule which had a scattering of supporters in Ireland but was strongest among Irish exiles in London . |
| 21 | An entire change in society — a change amounting to a complete subversion of the existing' ‘ order of the world ’ — is contemplated by the working classes ' ; it is right to recall that the workers very soon abandoned the strategic option of displacing Capitalism . |
| 22 | Some of the early big events of the year for us were the various treats run by the Working Men 's Clubs , and if your father happened to belong to both clubs you were lucky . |
| 23 | For sure , the eighties has already had its riots and can expect more , it has seen insurgent movements for progressive and peaceful life on earth , symbolised by the first women 's embrace of the Greenham Common base in December 1982 which shifted popular consensus against the new generation of nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | The Fraternity was disbanded , but many of its ideas and methods have been taken up by the new women 's organizations formed in the 1970s . |
| 25 | A package of economic documents was signed by the two countries ' Premiers on Oct. 22 , in addition to a protocol on the reduction of inter-republican enterprise debt . |
| 26 | But by combining SkottiS — an exchange planned by the two countries ' Music Information Centres — the scale of this year 's festivities was unprecedented . |
| 27 | It is a difference which is shown , first of all , by the two authors ' contrasting portraits of relations between the generations . |
| 28 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 29 | a barbecue followed by the hilarious reps ' cabaret and a chance to test you skill on the mechanical bull . |
| 30 | And , by the Married Women 's Property Act 1964 , any money derived by a wife from an allowance made by her husband for housekeeping purposes , or any property acquired out of it , is deemed , in the absence of any agreement between them to the contrary , to belong in equal shares to the husband and wife . |