Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the search for methods of countering the national economic and military ‘ deterioration ’ after the Boer War was dominated by discussion of methods of improving the numbers and environment of the masses rather than of weeding out the unfit . |
| 2 | Many thanks to all who helped by way of contributions of goods , clothes or money , and special thanks to for their help and support . |
| 3 | The pages of many of the new journals initiated after 1960 ( Table 1.1. p. 6 ) were commonly occupied by results of investigations of environmental processes and existing journals also reflected an influx of process-based papers . |
| 4 | In the second year , the state is approached by means of units on comparative government which analyse the institutions and practices of the major powers in the contemporary developed world , and thematic units examining the relationship of war and nationalism respectively to the emergence of the modern state . |
| 5 | In Britain , ‘ whisky diplomacy ’ was repeatedly used to resolve conflicts , and pressure was brought to bear by means of appeals to the parties from the Prime Minister , for example by Harold Wilson in 1966 ( see Bagwell 1982 : 168–71 ) . |
| 6 | This is the sum which the Lord Chancellor has indicated he has to find by way of savings in the legal aid scheme to meet Treasury targets in 1993/4 . |
| 7 | The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively . |
| 8 | He had taken a captured Italian Lancia lorry along on the trip , as he had heard that there was a roadhouse at Mersa Brega used by groups of officers for meetings . |
| 9 | So , at least , is the story presented by Bernard of Angers in the Miracles of St Foy ( it is clear , however , from the subsequent narrative that , whatever the short-term effects of the thunderbolt , Garsinde 's claims were pursued again later by her husband . ) |
| 10 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
| 11 | The College was hampered by shortage of funds throughout Coleman 's 45 years as Professor . |
| 12 | In animal experiments , increased mucosal permeability could be prevented by depletion of granulocytes with antineutrophil serum , and ileal mucosal permeability increased after exposure to neutrophil derived oxidants . |
| 13 | Data will be collected by means of questionnaires to mother and fathers and interviews with mothers and siblings . |
| 14 | These are databases carefully prepared by teams of specialists to be available soon on-line or distributed on disc . |
| 15 | Concentrating on the art and architecture of Pisa , Florence , Siena and Lucca , the exhibition includes drawings made by Ruskin of details of Santa Maria della Spina in Pisa , the head of the monument to Ilaria del Carretto in Lucca Cathedral by W.G. Collingwood , and the façade of the Badia Fiesolana by Thomas Matthews Rooke . |
| 16 | Modern Scottish Glass has already been seen by scores of visitors to the Tweeddale Museum , Peebles . |
| 17 | With handles in the shape of a stork , enhanced by gold plating , they have been valued by generations of needleworkers for their very fine points , making them ideal for intricate sewing and embroidery work . |
| 18 | Clarity and performance of corporate role will in turn be facilitated by elaboration of expectations of individuals , executive and non-executive . |
| 19 | Hybrid offspring are usually inferior to those produced by matings of members of the same species , often because they are sterile . |
| 20 | For example the administration of overseas territories has been accomplished by means of orders in council issued by virtue of the royal prerogative . |
| 21 | All counts were corrected by subtraction of counts for 1 4 C liberated in control vials without specimens . |
| 22 | In summer the school air space was invaded by squadrons of swallows with their flashy stunt-flying . |
| 23 | Repeated attempts to fit a more appropriate sceptre as originally intended have been thwarted by generations of students with a keen sense of tradition . |
| 24 | At the obvious root of this discord lie personal ambitions fostered or thwarted by cliques of activists from the local branches involved in the selection of candidates . |
| 25 | He concluded — on broadly similar grounds to those which I have set out in this judgment — that the jurisdiction of the court was purely supervisory , or , in other words , that the decision of the local authority on the suitability of the accommodation provided could only be challenged by way of proceedings for judicial review . |
| 26 | At the hearing in the county court the preliminary issue was raised whether issues as to the proper discharge of the duty imposed on the council by section 69 of the Act of 1985 could only be challenged by way of proceedings in the High Court for judicial review . |
| 27 | It was as blank as a stone worn by aeons of tides on the seashore . |
| 28 | The natural chemistry , complicated by run-off of sediments from a variety of lands , is correspondingly complex . |
| 29 | for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court . |
| 30 | It may also be the case that reporting by Blacks of offences against Blacks was lower in the darker areas ; or that police are more inclined to ‘ cuff ’ ( i.e. not record ) Black offences in these areas , in the interests of improving race relations . |