Example sentences of "by [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | A military appeal court in Bucharest ruled on June 3 that a 20-year prison sentence passed on Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the overthrown and executed President Nicolae Ceausescu , should be reduced to 16 years , followed by eight years ' loss of civil liberties . |
2 | Any decision over handing over a section of line , or even a route , to LRT is taken at the top by Regional Railways ' managing director Gordon Pettitt . |
3 | Even when mortgage debt is added to all other consumer debt , to give a total of £50,000 to £55,000 million outstanding in 1978 , this was comfortably topped by private individuals ' deposits with banks and building societies alone , which amounted then to some £60,000 million . |
4 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
5 | The Legal Aid Board , which administers legal aid , proposes to stop paying for work carried out by unaccredited solicitors ' representatives after 1st October 1994 . |
6 | The third image pictures the state in liberal democratic societies as a corporatist network , integrated with external elites into a single control system : here talk of external control versus state autonomy is irrelevant , for state and economic elites are so interpenetrated by each others ' concerns that no sensible boundary line or balance of influence can be drawn . |
7 | We see the same biochemical processes , the same use of sign stimuli and programmed learning , identical strategies of information processing and storage , the same potential for well-defined cognitive thinking , but very different storage and sorting capacities and , most of all , very different intellectual needs imposed by each species ' niche . |
8 | Atlas Converting Equipment jumped 60 to 585p , buoyed by some directors ' share purchases . |
9 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |
10 | During one of his staging trips , Bennett was invited to the Air Ministry ( " by some friends ' ) when the sad tale of Bomber Command 's failure was laid bare . |
11 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
12 | The cylinder index and any higher-level indexes : it is unlikely that any but the largest files will require more than one cylinder for these indexes , although a complete cylinder has often to be set aside for them , as is required by some manufacturers ' software . |
13 | This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre . |
14 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the tourist industry in the island as a whole was affected adversely by British Airways ' decision to stop the London-Dublin link ? |
15 | These difficulties are compounded by the fact that industrialisation policies have their own dynamic in each sector and by foreign lenders ' intervention in domestic policy . |
16 | Some banks were encouraged by industrialised countries ' governments to provide competitive financial packages to overseas buyers in order to win export contracts for their depressed manufacturing industries . |
17 | Thus , there is a positive externality bestowed on the manufacturer by such retailers ' actions , which in turn means that retailers will tend to set prices too high and advertising too low from the manufacturer 's point of view ( i.e. high prices are a negative vertical externality ) . |
18 | Energy management systems may represent a major attempt to rationalise fuel consumption in non-domestic environments , but it remains to be seen how they will be received by such buildings ' occupants . |
19 | A yearly tenancy is determinable by the landlord or the tenant at the end of the first or any subsequent year of the tenancy by six months ' notice unless the agreement between the parties provides otherwise . |
20 | These authorities indicate plainly enough that the agreement in the present case did not create a lease and that the tenancy from year to year enjoyed by the tenant as a result of entering into possession and paying a yearly rent can be determined by six months ' notice by either landlord or tenant . |
21 | An encouraging letter from him was followed by six weeks ' silence , so eventually she walked into his office and confronted him . |
22 | Indeed , following on from the government 's Next Steps agencies ( see below ) , for many government executive operations outturn information in departmental reports will , in future , be supplemented by individual agencies ' annual reports to Parliament . |
23 | As well as its North European operation ( covering Ireland , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Sweden , Iceland , Belgium , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Israel ) , which is run by Interactive Systems ' former European boss , Doug Miller , out of Interactive 's old UK offices in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , SunSoft has now opened offices in ( Grasbrunn ) Munich and Velizy-Villacoublay ( Paris ) , though both are located within the parent 's premises . |
24 | This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time . |
25 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
26 | Natural Gas Vehicles were also covered in some detail but as our public relations efforts seem to be hampered by these vehicles ' technical problems it 's difficult to be more positive than we have been . |
27 | A worrying report , published by three teachers ' unions just a few minutes before national curriculum boss David Pascall issued his ‘ back to basics ’ clarion call , revealed a staggering 80,000 teachers — one in five — want to quit their jobs . |
28 | The agreement provided for the determination of the agreement by three months ' written notice given by either party to the other subject to a proviso that the landlords should not exercise that right unless they required the premises for their undertaking . |
29 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
30 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |