Example sentences of "[conj] by a [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be covered by the skirting board at the walls , or by a variety of mouldings such as stair-nose ( for edging the top stair ) , T-profile ( for where two wood floors join at the same level ) , and quadrant ( where you 've left the original skirting in place , or at a wall where there is no skirting ) . |
| 2 | The radial shields are about twice as long as broad ; in small specimens they may be contiguous along their whole length , in larger specimen they become separated by a single triangular plate or by a wedge of plates . |
| 3 | Obviously , the hoped-for benefits such as reduced waiting lists can only be brought about by an absolute increase in available services or by a transfer of resources from other services . |
| 4 | It would be a great help to all our officers in planning future strategies ( and probably of considerable interest to you ) if you could enlist the help of your class members to complete the enclosed survey ( either by photocopying the form and filling in one each or by a show of hands and entering the total numbers ) Please let Pat Palmer have the results at or before the Reunion on 19th November . |
| 5 | Complaint may be made by an individual or by a body of persons , for example a residents association and should be directed in writing to an M.P . |
| 6 | In parliamentary systems the formal head of state may be a hereditary post ( as in monarchies ) , or chosen by popular election or by a vote of members of the assembly . |
| 7 | I refer to a letter written by the hon. Member for Leeds , Central on 28 November 1991 to the secretary of the Society of Chief Inspectors and Advisers : ’ The subsequent evaluation , monitoring and implementation of new practices could be carried out by both the initial inspector or by a group of advisers . |
| 8 | Many valuable training experiences can be arranged within a single school or agency , or by a group of teachers from different schools meeting regularly to carry out an agreed task . |
| 9 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 10 | Firstly , although the material may be produced by one library or by a group of libraries within one authority , the message is an exhortation to use library services or the stock of libraries in general . |
| 11 | To Sigouri was perhaps thirty miles and , although the rain kept away , it was dark and treacherous underfoot and they hardly spoke , men-at-arms or servants or principals , as they guided fresh horses across the grey soil of the Messaoria , splashing over burgeoning rivers ; imperceptible to silent villages , churches and monasteries except by a thud of hooves and the swimming spawn of their brands . |
| 12 | This means that she falls asleep in the car on the way to the airport and can not be woken except by a party of electricians returning from Corfu , who put her in a baggage trolley and push her the length of the terminal building at speeds of up to fifteen miles per hour . |
| 13 | When Wales were successful in the Seventies ( and even then they could not beat the Blacks ) , mere victory was not enough ; it had to be done with panache and by a heap of points to satisfy the demands of a voracious populace . |
| 14 | Even in the 1780s the Foreign Office had probably fewer than twenty employees in all ; and throughout the century the efficiency of British diplomacy was hampered by the lack of effective arrangements for preserving correspondence and by a shortage of translators . |
| 15 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 16 | Input supplied by video and audio cassette and by a variety of documents ( in the information file ) . |
| 17 | And this was provided , by revolutionary action in England in the seventeenth century , in America in the eighteenth , in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth , and by a variety of methods in most other Western countries sometime within those centuries . |
| 18 | One advantage is that minority shareholders in the target can be compelled to sell their shares pursuant to the scheme provided the scheme is sanctioned by the court and by a majority of shareholders in number representing 75 per cent in value of those present and voting , in person or by proxy , at the meeting convened to approve the scheme . |
| 19 | Executive power is exercised by a Prime Minister ( who is elected by Parliament from amongst its members ) and by a Council of Ministers which consists of MPs appointed by the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | Executive power is exercised by a Prime Minister ( who is elected by Parliament from among its members ) and by a Council of Ministers which consists of MPs appointed by the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 22 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
| 23 | The first two are represented in Attaingnant 's collections — Clemens , it is true , by an anonymous and doubtfully authentic piece — as early as 1529 and by a trickle of songs during the next decade . |
| 24 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 25 | But crucially ‘ Dialectics ’ was not organized by any political group , as such , but by a group of psychiatrists including R.D. Laing and David Cooper . |
| 26 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 27 | The event was dominated not by the man but by a team of ladies all from the City of Derry , they were Ann Wallace , Claire Hughes and Vivienne Houston and their professional from Cill Dara was Gerry Burke . |
| 28 | But by an extension of remedies and a flexible procedure it can be said that something resembling a system of public law is being developed . |
| 29 | Before 1926 , either the debtor conveyed the legal right to a mortgagee , and retained an equitable interest — the ‘ Equity of Redemption ’ — or else he retained the legal right himself , and gave an equitable interest to the lender , as by a deposit of title-deeds . |