Example sentences of "by a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 2 | The yards were reached either by a narrow alley or through a tunnel entrance ; they took their name from the owner or sometimes from the occupant of the property that fronted the street . |
| 3 | The central theme of Hopscotch is the quest for the authenticity which Western man has lost , stifled by a distorting rationalism and by the conventions of the bourgeois social order . |
| 4 | I thoroughly agree with my hon. Friend that peace in Northern Ireland will be hastened by a healthy economy and by a well-trained work force . |
| 5 | A letter from the Secretary of State had arrived withdrawing his approval for the closure in order to allow him to consider views brought to his attention by a Regional Councillor and by the local MP . |
| 6 | The crisis arose from an extraordinarily parochial subject , namely whether the small Westland group of helicopter manufacturers , situated in Yeovil in the West Country , should be purchased by a European consortium or by the US-dominated Sikorsky — Fiat group . |
| 7 | Whilst the total number of holidays authorized increased by nearly 50 per cent over the period shown both Thomson and Intasun expanded by a greater proportion but with Intasun far outstripping Thomson 's growth . |
| 8 | The instruction could set a condition code to indicate whether the search was terminated by a successful comparison or by L becoming zero ; alternatively , one of these two results could cause a skip . |
| 9 | He saw that Lewis would not re-enter Christianity by a new door but by the old one : at least in the sense that in taking it up again he would also take up again or reawaken the prejudices so sedulously planted in childhood and boyhood . |
| 10 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 11 | But the problem which data of this kind present is whether or not contexts where the subject is realized by a personal pronoun or by these are possible ‘ variable ’ environments . |
| 12 | In the vast majority of cases , soil conservation measures were seen by land-users to be a symptom of oppression either by a colonial regime or by small interlocking urban elites . |
| 13 | He will then envisage the designed chain of events between input and output and look for the hiatus , he may do this by rules , by a pictorial model or by a model involving some symbolism such as expected voltage levels . |
| 14 | It was surmounted by a small clock and like the shelter at the Crystal Palace , was in direct telephone communication . |
| 15 | In that case it is legitimate to require some special process of constitutional amendment say that the legislature may amend the Constitution only by a two-thirds majority or after a general election or perhaps upon three months ' notice . |
| 16 | Growth by acquisition may take many forms : the purchase of a publicly held company 's shares by a recommended offer or by contested takeover bid , or the acquisition of shares or business assets by private agreement ( in either case for cash or by way of share exchange ) ; merger through the medium of a holding company which acquires the merging companies or their assets ; and , in France and certain other member states , merger by ‘ fusion ’ whereby a company loses its identity and is absorbed , with its assets and liabilities , into the new concern . |
| 17 | Even when real property was made liable to all these debts , it was made liable by a different process and in a different order from personal property . |
| 18 | Any spell cast by the bearer of the Staff will automatically work — it can not be dispelled or nullified in any way either by a magic card or by a magic item . |
| 19 | History is a discontinuous set composed of domains of history , each of which is defined by a characteristic frequency and by a differential coding of before and after . |
| 20 | Ecclesiastical dignitaries had been contemplating certain reforms of their own , but pressure for a radical approach to the church 's problems had been generated by a rank-and-file priest and by laymen . |
| 21 | If the only loss of an investor whose shares are worthless is his purchase money , it will be a matter of indifference to him whether his money is restored by a restitutionary order or by a compensatory order . |
| 22 | Operation is either by a circular knob or with a screwdriver fitted into a slot . |
| 23 | This cleaning takes place at a definite cleaning station , usually by a large rock or near some other bold feature on the sea bed . |
| 24 | The Careers Service should be informed when the position has been filled whether by a Compact student or by another young person . |
| 25 | I recently met Mrs Kjaersgaard in London to discuss our common objective to forge a link between parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united not by a single government but with a free market . |
| 26 | The judge must decide whether , taking into account the issues involved and the nature of the evidence required for each issue , the disputes between the litigants can best be resolved by a single trial or by a trial in two parts . |
| 27 | The courtyard is illuminated by a single light and against the far wall five drummers keep a constant rhythm , breaking into occasional chanting . |
| 28 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 29 | Lorentz wondered whether ‘ patrons might be made to understand why the movies are so banal and childish … if every motion picture theatre prefaced its films with the caption ‘ This picture has been censored by a minor politician or by his assistants ’ ’ . |
| 30 | To return to crack propagation in brittle solids , it does not really matter for our present purposes whether fracture is initiated by a dynamic blow or by a static load . |