Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 So long as they have neighbours within 12″ the Snotlings are not affected by the psychology rules and they do not need to take break tests when they are beaten in hand-to-hand combat .
2 Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions .
3 For some purposes the action project in operation can best be described directly by the development officers and their support workers ( see for example Murphy and Rapley , 1986 ) .
4 All relevant factors are taken into account by the funding councils when they decide how to allocate resources .
5 The Labour party should worry more about the quality of education offered by the education authorities that it controls , rather than going through its political rhetoric .
6 For the many professional librarians who were employed by the banning authorities and who disagreed with the ban , the direction contained in Section 2f was virtually impossible to follow .
7 The NFCG also found variations in the price of the survey required by the water companies before you can fit a meter ( £11.50 to £35 ) and in the cost of the meter itself ( free in Severn Trent but £35 in Thames ) .
8 Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other .
9 It is given by the direction cosines and we find
10 Runners are identified by the gold jackets that they wear , while traders are identified by their scarlet jackets or house jackets together with badges carrying the trading initials of their firm .
11 The treaty was not , predictably , adopted by the member states but it encouraged the governments to look again at reform .
12 I remember getting off the plane and being asked by the press photographers if I would give them a salute .
13 ‘ Lightning is the spears hurled by the thunder giants when they fight , ’ it said gently .
14 Someone had chucked a brick through the gas-mantle on the corner by the Cathedral railings and it had n't been replaced .
15 The most telling evidence of all that Sunday trading is a costly mistake , for which the whole nation is paying a heavy price , is not the new year phoney price war by the supermarket chains but their savage attack on the living standards of the employees .
16 The frequency of step commands produced by the oscillator is ramped up to the clock frequency at a rate which is determined by the filter parameters and which can be matched to the motor/lead combination .
17 The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts .
18 He had been arrested by the Justice Police and his shop had been virtually destroyed by the security officers .
19 Any of our holidays suit people by themselves , whether 18 or 80 , though Dinghy Paxos seems the favourite , closely followed by the house parties if you 're not a sailor .
20 Complaint was made in 1383 that persons accused of Forest offences were being imprisoned without indictment in due legal form , and detained by the Forest officers until they paid fines for their release .
21 However the pill is the method least preferred by the population controllers because it is taken at the discretion of the user .
22 The state 's bureaucracy came to be staffed by the monopoly capitalists and their friends so that the state could co-ordinate the interests of the monopolies .
23 It was this potential distortion of competition that was in particular invoked by the Community institutions when they started to enact environmental and consumer protection legislation during the 1970s .
24 I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably
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