Example sentences of "by a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | for example any diagnostic task can be aided by a taxonomy of symptoms and a taxonomy of causes together with connections between them . |
| 2 | For all its great altitude , the view from the top of the Col du Tourmalet is much less open and memorable than many , blocked as it is to the south by a row of peaks and overpowered immediately to the north by the bulk of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , which is a most assertive mountain . |
| 3 | The outer side of the algal ridge is often interrupted by a system of spurs and grooves , the latter running back through the ridge as a series of surge channels , which may even become roofed over in places by the development of Porolithon from their sides . |
| 4 | The flow is then reversed by a system of valves and the bed backwashed . |
| 5 | These were ‘ the integration of different segments of the labour process by a system of conveyors and handling devices ensuring the movement of the materials to be transformed and their arrival at the appropriate machine tools ’ . |
| 6 | ROMNEY Marsh , some forty-five miles south-east of London on the coast of Kent , is a two-hundred-square-mile area reclaimed from the sea by a system of dykes and channels started as far back as Roman times . |
| 7 | FADS for vitamin supplements have been overtaken by a vogue for minerals and trace elements . |
| 8 | An outline of the Modular Course Matrix is followed by a discussion of roles and responsibilities of key individuals and groups . |
| 9 | In RENFE , basic pay has been supplemented by a plethora of bonuses and allowances ( in 1983 , there were well over 100 separate remunerative headings in addition to basic pay ) , and in contrast to BR , employees receive age-related increments at four-yearly intervals . |
| 10 | In a new burst of corporate energy , the choir was demolished in Anselm 's day , and replaced by a structure in proportions and plan unlike any other in England at the time . |
| 11 | Fertility could remain high and mortality continue to decline without population growth being stifled by a fall in wages and increases in the cost of subsistence . |
| 12 | It 's criss crossed by a maze of tracks and bridle paths . |
| 13 | Rosières turned out to be a big old field , already occupied by a squadron of bombers and a squadron of Bristol Fighters . |
| 14 | It is managed by a council of directors and each member must delegate one director . |
| 15 | Markets coordinate , without conscious human intervention , the literally millions of individual decisions made in a complex economy by a multiplicity of producers and consumers . |
| 16 | The produce was brought to the station by a multiplicity of carts and wagons drawn by oxen , ponies , mules , camels , or even on the backs of elephants . |
| 17 | Demanding that the NSF should stand down in favour of a caretaker administration , they were confronted by a cordon of tanks and troops around the NSF headquarters . |
| 18 | However , at Pushkin Square , about 500 metres from Manezh Square , the demonstrators were confronted by a cordon of troops and trucks . |
| 19 | INDICATIONS that the economy is moving out of recession were provided by a clutch of reports and surveys yesterday pointing to improvements in consumer and business confidence and rising credit . |
| 20 | The Commission proposes that it should be a criminal offence for anyone to release into the environment a living creature whose genes have been altered in the laboratory — unless the proposed release has been scrutinised and licensed by a committee of ecologists and environmental scientists . |
| 21 | The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision . |
| 22 | Some plants , however , are known to be efficiently dispersed by two quite distinct types of agent , e.g. the fruits of Faramea occidentalis ( Rubiaceae ) on Barro Colorado Island are eaten by a range of mammals and birds , but dispersal is said to be principally effected by howler and white-faced monkeys and by crested guans . |
| 23 | So many people wanted to emigrate in answer to this that the local authorities feared that the traditional system of agriculture in Madeira as well as the new industries , would be endangered by a shortage of artisans and workers . |
| 24 | Many organisations in fact are overwhelmed by a superabundance of communications and some are looking to computerisation to solve some of the problems created by information bombardment . |
| 25 | They were watched by a straggle of housewives and schoolchildren , and a photographer from the local paper . |
| 26 | Chancellor Norman Lamont and treasury ministers were told er chancellor Norman Lamont and treasury ministers were to be grilled like labour spokesmen by a panel of businessmen and just one union leader . |
| 27 | Each will then be interviewed by a panel of experts and asked questions that draw upon their professional skills and personality . |
| 28 | A shortlist of entries will be featured on Dance Energy House Party with winners chosen by a panel of viewers and top music biz hotshots . |
| 29 | The Normans , by comparison , were led by armoured and fairly mobile knights , backed by a barrage of archers and organised groups of spear and swordsmen . |
| 30 | by a barrage of grenades and mortars . |