Example sentences of "by [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several months of public disorder incidents , accompanied by calls for political reforms , appeared to be coming to a head during April , with rioting and repression reported in Douala , Yaoundé , Bamenda , Ngaoundéré , Maroua , Bafoussam , Kumba , and other main centres . |
| 2 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | A tiny teardrop in a shimmering sea at the foot of the Indian peninsula , Sri Lanka is an untamed isle which has been coveted by Westerners for many centuries . |
| 4 | A policy of targeting money supply is also criticized by Keynesians for similar reasons . |
| 5 | Further moves towards improving relations were overtaken by plans for German unification . |
| 6 | The subjectivity of the assessment can be reduced by the use of verbal surveys , such as questionnaires not restricted to numerical measures ; and the dangers of providing conformist assessments can be overcome by the assurance of confidentiality , and by checks for systematic variations . |
| 7 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 8 | RIO DE JANEIRO ( AP ) — Luis Sales , head of a Brazilian advertising agency , was freed unharmed after being held by kidnappers for two months . |
| 9 | The individual 's personal circumstances , the demand for labour in the economy , restrictive practices , the opportunities offered by employers for more work effort , and so on . |
| 10 | This is worn by contenders for first prize in waiting at bus stops . ’ |
| 11 | First , as a number of studies have shown , retirement and the spread of pensions were stimulated by demands for greater efficiency and productivity in the workplace . |
| 12 | It must be said , too , that the early and middle 1980s , at least as compared to the late 1980s and the early 1990s , were a remarkably placid time , without the edge brought to American cultural and artistic life by demands for sexual and gender liberation and by AIDS-induced desperation . |
| 13 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 14 | A REPORT by the Law Commission on computer misuse , published this week , angered those who believe that hacking for fun should not be outlawed but was treated as a triumph by lobbyists for anti-hacking laws . |
| 15 | The £470 million announced yesterday will be taken up in large part by programmes that have already been announced , such as the employment action programme , by money for job clubs and by funds for departmental redundancy payment schemes . |
| 16 | Under this there will be a basic personal allowance topped up by premiums for certain groups . |
| 17 | This is partly due to the fact that the government now prefers to fund its PSBR in other ways , and partly due to the increasing use of commercial bills by companies for short-term financing . |
| 18 | A development which starts from the humane desire to prevent severe handicap could lead to demands by parents for genetic interventions to produce traits which are thought to be culturally desirable , such as maleness and fair skin . |
| 19 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 20 | Other influences include a demand by workers for more participation in enterprise decision-making . |
| 21 | This partial withdrawal of labour supply is the mirror image of an increased preference by workers for more leisure : a rise in unemployment is seen as a sort of holiday or , at the very least , as a manifestation of an increased demand for leisure . |
| 22 | What Durkheim did was transform or recontextualise the official statistics , which he well knew were less than satisfactory in many respects , produced by officials for administrative purposes , and relate them to his theoretical concerns . |
| 23 | On Oct. 15 the government prevented a convoy of trucks carrying medicine and food raised by charities for Iraqi children from leaving Amman on the grounds that UN permission would be required to ensure that the shipment did not break sanctions . |
| 24 | Excluding the voluntary contribution element , the public money is raised by taxation and by contributions for specific services , by local rates and by charges for some services . |
| 25 | Private squabbles which motivate one party to advertise the defects of an opponent in handbills , hoardings or on subway walls can always be dealt with by bind-over orders , and sometimes by prosecutions for criminal damage or indecent displays . |
| 26 | But McCarthy and Waite , who were held by terrorists for five years , refused to co-operate with Granada and accused them of ‘ pure fiction ’ . |
| 27 | In particular , it looks at the levels at which key industrial relations decisions and collective agreement are made , the links between managerial strategy and union organisation and industrial conflict , and the changes taking place in strategies and structures employed by managers for industrial relations since 1980 . |
| 28 | Between 1984 and 1990 , England and Wales lost 53,000 miles of hedgerow , nearly 20 per cent of the total , from a combination of neglect and being grubbed up by farmers for mechanised farming . |
| 29 | The announcement was made by the Home Secretary , in response to calls by officers for greater protection on the beat . |
| 30 | Ministers from time to time make statements seeming to indicate to judges generally what sentencing policy should be , within the range of punishments laid down by statutes for different crimes . |