Example sentences of "on [noun pl] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute is a founder member of the International Association of Institutes of Export , many of whose members have based their operations on patterns pioneered by the Institute in the U.K. |
| 2 | The enhancements to the gateways include a new Directory Exchange Agent , DXA , which handles directory synchronisation , and an AliasMapper which provides the alias mapping for automatic alias and originator/recipient name generation , based on rules defined by the systems administrator . |
| 3 | Like coconut and rubber , many of these crops were also grown on estates owned by the urban élite . |
| 4 | Prospective developers should make their planning applications on forms provided by the planning authority . |
| 5 | Uptown , additional space comes from the Monitor Building , which has been cleared of offices , and from the new ten-storey Tower , designed by Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel and raised on foundations laid by the museum 's architect Frank Lloyd Wright for just such a purpose . |
| 6 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |
| 7 | Its recommendations focus on dangers posed by the public 's exposure to pesticides and their use by untrained people . |
| 8 | It hears complaints and appeals brought by or against EC institutions , member states or individuals , and gives preliminary rulings on cases referred by the national courts . |
| 9 | The 1989 awards are each worth £300,000 , 20 per cent more than last year , due to particularly good returns on investments made by the Nobel Foundation . |
| 10 | Exactly what arrangements have been put in place for more than 10,000 members to vote on proposals suggested by the STG management board ? |
| 11 | The Outer Isles Fishery Training Scheme operated by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries , and which was , in effect the pilot project for the very much more ambitious schemes of fishery development inaugurated by the Highlands and Islands Development Board , was dependent on funds contributed by the Macaulay ( Rhodesia ) Trust and the Highland Fund . |
| 12 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 13 | The jurisdiction of a university visitor to adjudicate on disputes governed by the university 's statutes , regulations and other ‘ internal laws ’ precludes recourse to a court in respect of the dispute , although the decision of the visitor is amenable to judicial review . |
| 14 | Other proposals included ( i ) a $500 per child increase in personal tax exemption ( beginning Oct. 1 ) for families earning less than $157,000 per year ; ( ii ) a temporary tax credit for first-time home buyers of 10 per cent of purchase price ( up to $5,000 ) on homes bought by the end of the year ; ( iii ) short-term compensation for those selling their homes at a loss ; and ( iv ) a temporary investment tax allowance on the purchase of assets . |
| 15 | Florey himself , in a lecture given in 1945 , made a similar review , which was amplified in the great book on antibiotics written by the Oxford group in 1949 . |
| 16 | MORE than 800 Lloyd 's of London members on syndicates managed by the loss-making Gooda Walker agency have failed in their legal attempt to prevent Lloyd 's and members ' agents from drawing down their funds . |
| 17 | A further 19 days are set aside for debate on matters selected by the opposition . |
| 18 | He had worked for twelve years on matters covered by the Official Secrets Act , of which , obviously , he was a signatory . |
| 19 | Teachers became ‘ facilitators ’ , and most classroom materials were based on texts produced by the students themselves . |
| 20 | Law courts are expected to be established on sites owned by the London Dockland Development Corporation ( LDDC ) at East India Dock , E14 , and at Connaught Station , Royal Albert Dock , E16 . |
| 21 | The initiative , based on ideas introduced by the Inter-Continental group , focuses on areas such as energy-saving heating , recycling waste and buying eco-friendly products . |
| 22 | He anticipated new openings for Anglo-American coproduction , in which British talent could be deployed with American actors on films financed by the Americans and given proper distribution in the US . |
| 23 | Block ( 1980 ) and Offe ( e.g. 1974 ) , for example , have argued that there are structural ‘ selection mechanisms ‘ , notably the dependence of the state 's activity on resources generated by the private sector , and the nature of capitalism as an international competitive system , that prevent the state from mounting a threat to the continuation of the capitalist mode of production ( cf. also Poulantzas 1978 : 190–3 ) . |
| 24 | The result was announced on Aug. 20 of a vote by members of the Hong Kong stock exchange , on reforms urged by the colony 's Securities and Futures Commission ( SFC ) . |
| 25 | A trade agreement provided for a reduction of customs duties on goods traded by the two countries ( thus extending most favoured nation status to the Soviet Union and improving the competitiveness of each country 's goods in the other 's markets ) ; the agreement also provided for better copyright protection for US companies and for reductions in the time US companies would have to wait for approval to begin commercial operations in the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | On the other hand warrants invariably start out with much longer lives and are exercised on dates predetermined by the issuing company . |
| 27 | Norton-Taylor has analysed the ownership of all this land , drawing heavily on studies made by the Centre for Agricultural Strategy , and embellished his account by sub-analyses of the land holdings of members of Margaret Thatcher 's Cabinet , by a fairly definitive listing of Ministry of Defence holdings , and an examination of the acreages associated with the entries in Debrett 's Landed Gentry . |
| 28 | By 1865 , over 130 lace making factories were producing this delicate fabric on machines powered by the abundance of local coal . |
| 29 | UNICEF has the widest and most varied range of stationery lots of all purpose cards in all sorts of styles , plus handsome stationery sets with designs based on blankets woven by the Navajo Indians . |
| 30 | The consultant in the old voluntary hospitals ( see above ) depended for his or her income on patients referred by the GP . |