Example sentences of "by the [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 2 | It was decided I should go to special school and my mother 's objections were mollified by the proof of the academic success that many girls achieved there . |
| 3 | The poster shows Campese arrested in full flight by the tail of a pursuing red dragon , with the caption : ‘ Capture the magic of the wizards of Oz ’ . |
| 4 | You 'll be out swinging a tiger by the tail in no time . ’ |
| 5 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 6 | The courts may be impressed by the expertise of the social workers ; alternatively , they may tend to side with parents faced with the power of the Social Services Departments . |
| 7 | AN accusation made yesterday that the British Amateur Athletic Board was manipulated into bankruptcy , is to be examined by the solicitors of the Amateur Athletic Association . |
| 8 | These are prepared by Counsel in a Court of Session action or by the solicitors in a Sheriff Court action , on the basis of the evidence on the insurance file . |
| 9 | The second part of Acts is dominated by the mission to the Gentiles , under the leadership of Paul . |
| 10 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 11 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |
| 12 | Innovations crossed frontiers more quickly in an age of easy communication , and processes could be exported by the entrepreneur to the place where they would find the resources and markets they needed . |
| 13 | The debate itself was marred by the inexperience of the speakers . |
| 14 | Such proceedings received statutory sanction by the Ordinance of the Forest in 1306 : Edward I decreed that : |
| 15 | Bernice was blown off her feet by the shockwave from the explosion . |
| 16 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 17 | By the rulers of the ancient provinces of Abyssinia and by the nobility as a whole he was universally accepted as Emperor . |
| 18 | Some of the gains made by the nobility in the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s have already been discussed , but the opportunities for enrichment were open to men of all ranks . |
| 19 | The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons . |
| 20 | There is a Women 's Institute branch ( the W.I. — known , inevitably , as the Witches International by the habitués of the Smoke Room of the Red Lion ) , a Choral Group , and an Amateur Dramatic Society . |
| 21 | " A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands . |
| 22 | The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’ |
| 23 | It is specifically about actions by the Crown under a statute providing a prescribed means of law enforcement . |
| 24 | In response to this decision Parliament hastily passed the War Damage Act 1965 with retrospective effect to deny entitlement to compensation for damage for acts lawfully done by the Crown during a war in which the Sovereign was engaged . |
| 25 | In 1536 , when the court of augmentations was established to deal with the lands acquired by the Crown through the dissolution of the smaller monasteries , Stumpe was appointed a receiver for north Wales , with a generous travelling allowance besides his salary of £20 p.a . |
| 26 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |
| 27 | When , however , a statute provides that compliance with its provisions shall be enforceable by civil proceedings by the Crown for an injunction , and particularly if this is the only method of enforcement for which it provides , the Crown does owe a duty to the public at large to initiate proceedings to secure that the law is not flouted , and not simply to leave it to the chance that some relator may be willing to incur the expense and trouble of doing so . |
| 28 | A comparison of the statements with the evidence of the two important witnesses reveals a small but not insignificant number of discrepancies , only one of which was disclosed by the Crown to the defence . |
| 29 | Questions of privilege are themselves justiciable and have , on occasion , been referred by the Crown at the instance of the House in question to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; what approach would be proper in such a circumstance ? |
| 30 | One was the court of the Duchy of Lancaster , which administered the lands gained by the Crown at the accession of Henry of Lancaster in 1399 . |