Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | through the enactment of repressive legislation by the state . |
| 2 | The leader of the ABSU , Upendra Nath Bramha , said that a cessation of violence would automatically follow the lifting of repressive measures by the government . |
| 3 | The information given to the development officers at this stage was the client 's name , main address , temporary address ( if any ) , date of birth , date of referral to the psychiatric service , date of domiciliary visit by the psychiatrist , diagnosis , score on the researcher 's organic brain syndrome scale , and whether consent for inclusion in the project had been obtained from the client , his or her next of kin , and his or her general practitioner ( or hospital doctor if temporarily in hospital ) . |
| 4 | There were reports during January that the Rome accord , the partial ceasefire negotiated on Dec. 1 , 1990 , to cover the Beira and Limpopo corridors , was breaking down in the face of persistent attacks by the rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) . |
| 5 | I have deliberately kept consideration of the death or prolonged absence(s) of a parent apart from that of parental removal by separation or divorce , since one would not wish to confound the two in their consideration . |
| 6 | It 's easy to drift into a system of parental involvement by accident , a system that just seems to grow and be a part of the school which is never reviewed or challenged . |
| 7 | In addition , the existence of tax allowances for children was seen by others , including Beatrice Webb ( 1919 , p. 307 ) and Seebohm Rowntree ( 1918 , p. 141 ) , as an important precedent to be used in the argument for extending the state 's recognition of parental responsibilities by the introduction of cash family allowances . |
| 8 | There are a number of small-scale studies by researchers , such as Beatrix Campbell ( 1984 ) and Paul Willis ( 1984 ) , that suggest that at least some young unemployed teenage girls see childbearing both as a method of obtaining fulfilment and a purpose to life since the usual source , that of paid work , is not available to them , and also as the only means of obtaining a home of their own . |
| 9 | The current Fortran 90 specifications were born out of failed attempts by industry vendors in the US to update Fortran77 to Fortran8X in the late 1980s . |
| 10 | The current Fortran 90 specifications were born out of failed attempts by industry vendors in the US to update Fortran77 to Fortran8X in the late 1980s . |
| 11 | Rumours that a number of horses had been ‘ got at ’ had swelled following a succession of below-par performances by short-priced favourites . |
| 12 | He argues for the classical form of government ; to rest on political apathy he believes ‘ is a way of preserving liberty by castrating it ’ . |
| 13 | Here the question is not merely one of sensitivity but also of the enormous additional cost of preserving amenities by placing cables underground . |
| 14 | Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) . |
| 15 | The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules . |
| 16 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 17 | The role has facilitated a promotion of trust between school and authority through the inferred recognition of professional competence by giving the school the autonomy to make decisions about its own development . |
| 18 | In the first case the applicant , a barrister of Lincoln 's Inn , was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court which directed that she be disbarred . |
| 19 | In the second case the applicant , also a barrister of Lincoln 's Inn , was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court , which directed that he should be disbarred . |
| 20 | On 8 October 1990 she was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal of the Inns of Court Council which directed that she be disbarred . |
| 21 | On 22 May 1990 he was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal of the Inns of Court Council which directed that he , too , should be disbarred . |
| 22 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 23 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 24 | The number of partners fell by three during the year and the number of professional staff by 789 . |
| 25 | Clearly , examinations , the way they are perceived , oriented to and drawn upon as a source of professional justification by teachers , are but one source of influence on the continuing pervasiveness of transmission styles of teaching in the school system . |
| 26 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 27 | Together with improvements in communication , above all in the use of the telegraph , this meant closer control of professional diplomatists by their governments . |
| 28 | A survey of retired people by MORI revealed that nearly half of those questioned said that they had not made sufficient allowance for inflation . |
| 29 | Major said that Britain 's target of stabilising emissions by 2005 would be improved " if possible " . |
| 30 | Working class women attempting to solve the problem of scarce resources by borrowing , pawning or taking paid employment , were condemned for either mismanaging or neglecting their home responsibilities , while under the guise of protection , efforts were made to limit their employment to ‘ suitable ’ occupations . |