Example sentences of "by the [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pet Shop Boys ' world tour rehearsals have been thrown in disarray by the flaring up of Chris Lowe 's lumbago . |
| 2 | At first sight this arrangement might possibly appear needlessly elaborate , but it would be difficult to obtain in any other way a full body of tone corresponding to that provided by the sustaining pedal of the piano . |
| 3 | The drafting of a detailed contract is usually undertaken , in the first instance , by the intending purchaser 's lawyers . |
| 4 | They adopted a Krakow Declaration , stating that the three countries would act for union with a united Europe and that their security would best be served by integration with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , and recognizing the dangers posed by the breaking up of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | There were about 2,000 members by 1939 and after 1945 the ‘ friendly society ’ dimension was further strengthened by the taking out of an expensive private insurance scheme for players , which absorbed half of the income of the Association . |
| 6 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 7 | In freud , the point is similarly not just the question — on which most attention gets focused — of whether the event ‘ really ’ happened ( a good copy ) or was subsequently fantasized by the experiencing subject ( a bad copy ) , but rather that it is repeated as a disruptive event that fissures ordinary forms of psychic continuity and therefore gains analytic attention in the present . |
| 8 | Expression of many of the structural genes in the methionine biosynthetic pathway of E. coli ( reviewed in ref. 18 ) is controlled largely by the met repressor protein , the product of the metJ gene . |
| 9 | This may seem a lot , but with many brine shrimp nauplii not being eaten by the fry the water could soon become polluted and have a detrimental effect on the fry , whereas ‘ little and often ’ water changes keep pollutants diluted . |
| 10 | It was a view supported later by the fading away of Green support to between 3 and 5 per cent in polls held at the end of the year . |
| 11 | The primary purpose of this research is to develop a methodology capable of analysing these complex interrelated issues , focusing in particular on the economic pressures created by the handing on of the business from father to son and from the purchase of land . |
| 12 | Privatization was to be accomplished by a mixed system of " named cheques " given to every Russian citizen , who would be able to redeem them for company shares of their choice , and by the handing over of 30 per cent of all shares in a privatised enterprise to the workforce . |
| 13 | One of the fond hopes for the tertiary colleges established in Sheffield in 1988 , by the bringing together of sixth form education and the further education colleges , was that the new 16–19 provision would draw upon the strengths of the partners . |
| 14 | Many thousands of years of natural evolution and hybridization , helped in recent centuries by the bringing together of species from widely separate parts of the world , and in modern decades by the attentions of the human mind and hand , have produced a multitude of rose forms , shapes , colours , habits and abilities . |
| 15 | The change is effected by the bringing into effect of s. 130 of the Companies Act 1989 , which substitutes a new s. 36 , and inserts a new s. 36A , into the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 16 | The electrochemical technology business will be expanded by further small acquisitions , or joint ventures , Hunt says , and by the bringing to market of products already in the ICI development chain . |
| 17 | As the book opens the only outside visitors to the sleepy town of Macondo are a troupe of gypsies , but by the close its residents have been exposed to a railroad and the attentions of a rapacious banana company . |
| 18 | Cheers barman Woody Harrelson and Bangle Susanna Hoff were among guests on a jet chartered by the Die Hard star . |
| 19 | He 's right up by the wishing wheel well or whatever it is . |
| 20 | Generic agents were signalled by the sequence ’ One that … ’ and human nouns were often identified by the suffices ’ - er ’ , ’ - ant ’ , etc . |
| 21 | The effect of a reference is to suspend the proceedings before the referring court until the Court of Justice has handed down its opinion which is then applied by the referring court to the dispute before it . |
| 22 | In none of the patients had the diagnosis been considered by the referring doctor and many patients had been subjected to extensive investigations . |
| 23 | Criteria for inclusion were : liquid stool incontinence for at least 12 months , frequency of incontinence of at least once a week , frequent severe urgency , and inefficacy of conventional medical treatment ( constipating agents , fibre supplementation , regular enemas ) given for at least one month by the referring physician . |
| 24 | They seemed to be particularly concerned about their incontinence , and this factor was thought to play an important part in their psychosocial dysfunction by the referring physician . |
| 25 | Patients referred for diagnostic studies were grouped according to their symptoms , whether symptoms developed after operation , and according to the stated anticipation of the result , slow or fast emptying , recorded by the referring clinician . |
| 26 | New inspiration quickened by the forming mind . |
| 27 | Doctor Lovell , who knew both women slightly , suspected that she was brow-beaten by the dominating Ella and would have liked to try the effects of an iron tonic on Dimity 's languid pallor . |
| 28 | The neo-conceptualism of the Goldsmiths ' artists has been heavily influenced by the dominating intellectual presences there , Thompson and the artist Michael Craig-Martin , both of whom have now left . |
| 29 | The main variations are caused by the phasing in of major re-equipment programmes : Polaris in the latter half of the 1960s ; RAF re-equipment in the early 1970s ; Army re-equipment in the mid-1970s ; the Tornado programme in the mid-1980s , and the start of the Trident programme in the late 1980s . |
| 30 | ‘ The UK lamb market experienced some uncertainty caused by the phasing out of the variable premium for domestic lambs , ’ was his only comment . |