Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased numbers of women were already working in manufactur-ing industry , and by the mid-1950s the process of ‘ upskilling ’ had begun in other sectors of the labour market . |
| 2 | However , by the mid-1960s the question had to be asked whether decision making would be more in the hands of the states , operating through bargaining and trade-offs , or rest with the Commission . |
| 3 | In the 1950s there was a lively debate about the employment effects of the automation of mass-production processes , and by the mid-1960s the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) was holding a series of international conferences to discuss the problem . |
| 4 | By the mid-1960s the influence of Irish McCarthyism was beginning to wane and there was a generally more tolerant atmosphere , which even Derry shared . |
| 5 | By the mid-1960s the need was becoming urgent for an overhaul of the traditional tribunals in which the more serious indictable crimes were tried before a High Court Judge , part-time Recorder or chairman of Quarter Sessions , and in 1966 the Government decided that there was substance for another Royal Commission . |
| 6 | By the mid-1970s the conflict between the army , the Bengali settlers and the tribespeople was under way . |
| 7 | By the mid-1970s the purity of Gardiner 's reorganization of the criminal courts was jeopardized by the Crown Courts becoming overburdened with large numbers of relatively trivial offences . |
| 8 | By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 . |
| 9 | Deputy hooker Ian Jeffery drafted in at blindside flanker typified the courageous tackling of the home team to avert a glut of scores by the visitors the County pack plying back enough possession to win a dozen games . |
| 10 | On appeal by the taxpayers the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals . |
| 11 | Even at the prices charged by the agents the operations are comparatively cheap in India . |
| 12 | In the half-light cast by the lamps the metal of the Smith and Wesson .38 and the Beretta 92s gleamed . |
| 13 | You may be limited by the hours the crêche is open as not all remain open in the evening , or begin early enough in the morning . |
| 14 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 15 | She swung round to him , grinding out in a low voice , ‘ She must n't have been any beginner , not goin , by the uncles the child 's had . |
| 16 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived . |
| 18 | It 's to symbolise the sacrificed lamb roasted by the Jews the night before they left the bondage of Egypt . |
| 19 | Even this sum was comfortably exceeded by the sums the Government received in VAT on repairs to historic buildings . |
| 20 | At censuses before the Second World War , men outnumbered women in the paid workforce by more than two to one , by the mid-1980s the ratio approaches even numbers with women accounting for 40 per cent of the labour force at the 1981 census and , in 1987 , 45 per cent of employees in employment . |
| 21 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |
| 22 | In such an environment London 's share of eurobond business has grown in a self-sustaining manner , as by the mid-1980s the origination activities of all the leading firms had become centralised in London . |
| 23 | The 343 workers whose sackings led to Britain 's most bitter industrial dispute since the late 1980s are to meet tomorrow to be told by the unions the details of the rundown package on offer . |
| 24 | If that were the agreement made by the parties the contract would be valid , even if the goods were not in existence , and the buyer would be liable to pay the price . |
| 25 | It is conceded that in the notice given by the plaintiffs the defendant was not required to remedy the breach , nor was she required to make compensation in money in respect thereof . |
| 26 | Upon receipt of a completed request form by the lexicographers the form should be checked to see whether it is acceptable . |
| 27 | The policy-making process is like the design of a building for a specific occupant by an architects the implementation process affects policy design quite early on and will continue to influence some details of it even after implementation has begun , just as modifications are made to buildings after occupancy . |