Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less by the mid-1950s some 58 per cent of consumers had power sockets of about five amps rating , with an average of 3.4 sockets each , and many new houses had nine or more . |
| 2 | Indeed , by the mid-1970s all three of Britain 's most heavily urbanized regions ( the South East , West Midlands and North West ) were recording rates of population decline similar to or greater than the traditionally depressed regions like the North and Scotland ( Champion , 1983 , table 8.2 , p. 200 ) . |
| 3 | I was happy to find that in the scholarly ( 237 references in 1991 ) introductory chapter written by the editors most of the territory was familiar . |
| 4 | The blood of childbirth and menstruation , which follows a passive and unstoppable cycle , can be construed ( by the powers that be ) to fall within this category , and so it is required that cultural regulation step in with restrictive legislation . |
| 5 | In December , a software firm in Osaka whose product was deemed ‘ obscene ’ by the powers that be was raided and its stock of ultra-graphic porn ‘ games ’ confiscated . |
| 6 | It was most fortunate that a young Cambridge biologist called Mark Pryor was extricated by the powers that be from a searchlight unit and sent to Farnborough to take over this work . |
| 7 | You assume , in your issue on Underground Work ( NI 173 ) that the relationship of the individual to the state is both natural and inevitable , and that it in some way presupposes fair treatment of the citizen by the powers that be . |
| 8 | We must hope that it will prove sufficiently attractive to tourists , so that , like several of our own rural lines , it is kept open mainly for its summer traffic , allowed by the powers that be to run even out of season , and can continue to serve its area . |
| 9 | The deputy chief of France 's air and border police , Mr Pierre Quilici , said the warning had been passed on by the Americans several days ago . |
| 10 | Most foreign politicians would be shocked by the conditions some MPs have to put up with , crammed together in dim corridors and insanitary Gothic broom-cupboards . |
| 11 | These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself . |
| 12 | Which I have enjoyed it 's been er a bit of a challenge coming here because in the city centre , business-wise , you 're surrounded by the professions such as estate agents and solicitors . |
| 13 | She , she 'd been told by the Reeds that |
| 14 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 15 | The implication that reasonable foresight was the appropriate test for determining the existence of a duty of care by a company 's auditors was considered by the courts several times following Hedley Byrne . |
| 16 | This was not universal — some tenants held land by custom alone , without possessing a copy of the court roll entry , and they were generally more vulnerable to pressure from their lords , as legal protection was gradually extended to copyhold tenants by the courts both of common law and of equitable jurisdiction during the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 18 | Right and how many times , I must ask you finally , how many times will you be fined by the referees this year , you claimed a nil sheet last year , remarkably |
| 19 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 20 | Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times . |
| 21 | ‘ The full list of every oven , together with updated instructions , ’ he announced , ‘ is being published by the manufacturers this afternoon . ’ |
| 22 | She turned to him with an affectionate grin , knowing his soft heart had been hugely moved by the children that afternoon . |
| 23 | It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in . |
| 24 | The values for the attributes of node are constrained by the variables such as ssmin and ssmax which specify the minimum and maximum values permitted for subsection numbers . |
| 25 | By 1981 the service sector accounted for 61 per cent of total employment , and by the mid-1980s this figure had risen to 65 per cent . |
| 26 | Israel 's foreign minister , Shimon Peres , who was asked by the Libyans several months ago to allow the trip , says he had no illusions about Colonel Qaddafi 's motives . |
| 27 | Aristide 's inauguration on Feb. 7 was preceded by the deaths several days earlier of four boys and one member of staff in an arson attack on the Family Is Life orphanage in Port-au-Prince , an institution founded by Aristide . |
| 28 | Counselling can often deal with the personal anger , frustration and eventual depression caused by the losses such illness brings . |