Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] of [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 2 | This primes and seals the floor prior to applying a coat of varnish by brush . |
| 3 | On the other hand , a systematic survey by the International Labour Organization has shown that , in a sample of ten African countries , 40 per cent of informal sector enterprises pay some form of tax or registration fee , implying a degree of recognition by government . |
| 4 | Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market , managers are free to become public servants , ‘ a purely neutral technocracy , balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 5 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 6 | Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself . |
| 7 | The Doctor was standing on one hand now , and juggling five different balls whilst singing a medley of songs by Abba . |
| 8 | But the great bulk of their music makes its effect exclusively by its singing lines , moving by step more often than leap , and beautifully spaced harmonic euphony , producing a sense of timelessness by the absence of marked rhythm or the thrust of any but the gentlest dissonance . |
| 9 | Then another two or three days went by , and my brother 's wife telephoned from Bakovka ( where there was a dacha containing a collection of pictures by some young artists , along with a great many works and drawings by Anatoly Zverev ) : ‘ Fire ! ! ! |
| 10 | Thus , differential abilities to recruit may cause selection biases ; indeed the baseline results in this study showed highly significant differences in important confounders — for example , household cleanliness was worse in the vitamin A group ( p<0.0001 ) , indicating a failure of randomisation by this procedure . |
| 11 | However , in management buy-outs involving a subscription of equity by institutional shareholders , there will almost invariably be a complex share structure and , as a result , a complex set of Articles of Association . |
| 12 | Sometimes hearing a cycle of works by the same composer actually has the opposite effect , making one realise limitations in the music , but this is simply not the case with Brahms . |
| 13 | Gunar Barthel , whose gallery is devoted mainly to the members of painters ' collectives , is showing a cross-section of works by its artists until 31 December . |
| 14 | Whether this moral — social distinction should be reflected in the law by introducing a doctrine of manslaughter by excessive defence depends on the importance attached to the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( l ) ) . |
| 15 | No work is done in the fields today and Kalchu is sitting in the sun , making a necklace of marigolds by sinking a needle into the yellow hearts and sliding them together along coarse black thread . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just putting a bit of money by , in case . ’ |
| 17 | The hammer lock kept my head down , but I could see he was carrying a bottle of whisky by the neck . |
| 18 | Ramaema on May 13 announced the repeal of legislation banning political parties and was quoted as promising a restoration of democracy by means of elections by June 1992 . |
| 19 | So barring a change of policy by the force , or by PC Packer , both of which seem unlikely , the battle of Chalford High Street looks like a stalemate . |
| 20 | Note too , the bronze hand held up in blessing commemorating a place of execution by the Nazis . |
| 21 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 22 | The legal minimum wage was raised by 10 per cent on May 1 , 1989 , following a wave of strikes by miners , oil workers and bank and public-sector employees . |
| 23 | NORTH EAST Essex looks likely to receive an extra MP following a review of constituencies by the Boundary Commission . |