Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice . |
| 2 | In many ways a parallel can be drawn between this river-borne Russian penetration and conquest of Siberian with its combination of raiding and trading , and the invasion of the original land of the Slavs by the Varangians eight centuries before . |
| 3 | Hers may be the problems of a lost or disgraced lover , of fears around childbirth or abortion , of whether or not her family will stand by her in the end , perhaps of a situation in which she has queered her own pitch for continuing fun , and above all , possibly , of the way she is seen by the others concerned . |
| 4 | A proposal concerning this motion was put to the last Annual General Meeting of Convocation , but was not favourably received by the members present . |
| 5 | The message was bluntly stated by the Times Educational Supplement : ‘ In these columns we have repeatedly declared that the new franchise and the new education are supplementary things . |
| 6 | As for newspapers , a poll by The Times Educational Supplement among its readers showed that only 40% of teachers ‘ always or fairly regularly ’ read The Guardian . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that the new , enhanced payments for those who take up ESAs and the improvements in the scheme are widely welcomed by the farmers concerned ? |
| 9 | In Eastern Europe Yugoslavia had long since broken free of Soviet domination and by the mid-1960s other countries , most notably Romania , were successfully showing independence in their foreign policy . |
| 10 | The row follows separate claims by the Conservatives last week that Labour had censored its list of parliamentary candidates to conceal their links with CND . |
| 11 | Many thinkers have been troubled by the problems implicit in the occurrence of pain and suffering . |
| 12 | All the rulings have been accepted by the companies concerned , not always without some hard pounding en route , and the adverse publicity arising must have acted as a powerful deterrent to other companies contemplating the use of accounting treatments on a basis of doubtful motivation and justification . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | A partnership which depends upon personal contacts or friendships between individuals can collapse when they move on to another job , and this would be a sign that the partnership was not properly ‘ owned ’ by the institutions concerned . |
| 15 | A crowd , which the Derry Journal estimated at 15,000 set off across the bridge , to be brought to a halt by the stewards thirty yards from the police barriers at Carlisle Square . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These were described by the parents later as inadequate and often inaccurate . |
| 18 | To be placed against this darker side of family life , of course , are the immense satisfactions of parenthood for most people and the sharing of these satisfactions by the parents concerned . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At present we 're limited by the powers available under the Trustee Investment Acts nineteen sixty-one , this sets out the amounts which we may invest in narrow and wide ranges of investment . |
| 25 | The authority says dealing with the problems caused by the squatters wasted money that ought to have been spent caring for patients . |
| 26 | Then , at the end of May 1943 , de Gaulle left England and flew to French Algeria , which had been liberated by the Americans six months earlier . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Although these claims are true , they are rather misleading and are an attempt to generate fees by the businesses concerned , ’ says tax specialist Peter Howarth . |
| 29 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the Colombian banana industry — largely controlled by the multinationals United Brands , Del Monte and Standard Fruit — is booming . |