Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , the complexity of the processes by which texts which form part of particular school disciplines — history or geography , etc. — have effects on the ‘ subjects ’ of schools , the students , is also neglected . |
| 2 | The first , very obviously , is the provision of the materials by means of which resource-based learning can proceed . |
| 3 | His son and heir , Charles II , managed to win the support of the Scots by convincing them that he was a true Protestant and that he favoured their presbyterian form of church government . |
| 4 | Franco 's Nationalist forces received massive physical support with arms and men , also aeroplanes , whereas the support for the Republicans by Russia was very little , although supplemented by ‘ republicans ’ of many nations . |
| 5 | When the compensation was exact the absorption of the photons by the thin layer of 57 Fe was maximized and the counting rate on the photomultiplier behind it was minimized . |
| 6 | The British and American critics for whom the label is commonly used , however , can be distinguished by a common rejection of established modes of criticism and scholarship ( Empson and Leavis are sometimes included among them ) , and in the case of the Americans by the fact that they proposed alternative methods of criticism supported by well-developed literary theories . |
| 7 | It is not often that the Organ publishes press releases , but an exception might usefully be made in the case of the handouts by Random House about the personnel changes there . |
| 8 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 9 | The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions . |
| 10 | The mother sought to establish that the father had ‘ subsequently acquiesced ’ in the removal of the children by her to England and their retention in England . |
| 11 | The secret of this trick is in the preparation of the rings by cutting and resticking them . |
| 12 | The division of the stimuli by accident estimates used almost the entire set of 48 stimuli . |
| 13 | Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East . |
| 14 | Seles had no trouble beating Conchita Martinez and Gabriela Sabatini , who was let off the hook in the quarters by Jana Novotna . |
| 15 | A Saxon origin is more plausible , for November was known as ‘ blood month ’ , a month of sacrifice , and 13 November was St. Brice 's Day — the anniversary of the massacre of the Danes by Ethelred II in 1002 ( Stamford was the scene of Saxon and Danish conflict during the tenth century ) . |
| 16 | Last week six of the nuns locked themselves in a hen house and refused access to a ministry vet who was to supervise the slaughter of the hens by 10 ex-aminers . |
| 17 | Australia extended their lead of 74 by 104 for the loss of the openers by the end of the day . |
| 18 | It is quite common in an import or export sale for the seller to agree to arrange the carriage of the goods by ship to the buyer and also to arrange for their insurance en route . |
| 19 | Lonrho 's ethics have been publicly queried in the past , so many in Whitehall are galled to see it cast on the side of the angels by its opposition to the Al Fayeds , after they had thwarted Lonrho 's own designs on Harrods . |
| 20 | The intragranular pores probably formed in response to the flushing of the rocks by freshwater during phases of exposure ( Fig. 6 ; Clark 1980a ) . |
| 21 | Also , the research is concerned with the study of the processes by which policies and decisions relevant to the particular computer system under study have been developed and implemented . |
| 22 | Despite the width of the statutory provision , the English court does not exercise its jurisdiction to wind up a foreign company unless a sufficient connection with England and Wales is shown and there is a reasonable possibility of benefit for the creditors from the winding up : see the review of the authorities by Peter Gibson J. in In re A Company ( No. 00359 of 1987 ) [ 1988 ] Ch. 210 . |
| 23 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 24 | It may be possible to prevent employees misrepresenting the effect of the terms by including a specific provision excluding their authority to make representations about the meaning or effect of the terms . |
| 25 | Just about wrested from the grip of the Conservatives by Labour in the last election , Oxford East is a red outpost in the Tory-blue electoral map of southern England . |
| 26 | Neither Rosamond Lehmann nor Anita Brookner , for example , should really be called postmodernist , since they follow after modernism , adopting something of its idiom and methods , without , as McHale suggests , following on from the work of the modernists by not only adopting their idiom , but adapting it into recognizably new and separate extensions of their own . |
| 27 | Here the concern is to understand decisions from the standpoint of the decision-makers by reconstructing their reasons . |
| 28 | So an order ought not , in my opinion , to require a contravener to repay to an investor the purchase price of shares sold to the investor unless there is also provision for the return of the shares by the investor . |
| 29 | The alternative , and orthodox view , sees the damage as resulting from invasions from Scotland following the withdrawal of the garrisons by the governor of Britain and usurper emperor , Clodius Albinus , in AD Fig. 7 . |
| 30 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |