Example sentences of "by [noun sg] and [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income .
2 Excluding the voluntary contribution element , the public money is raised by taxation and by contributions for specific services , by local rates and by charges for some services .
3 This narrow thinking combined with a short-term expediency of the free market has , in fact , driven farmers into an unsustainable position by over-consumption of resources , by pollution and by standards of animal care that are increasingly out of touch with consumer demand .
4 Both by calculation and by experiments with model cells , George was able to show that the process of buckling and elongation absorbed a great deal of energy .
5 Like Plutarch , Alexander of Aphrodisias argued that not everything is the product of inevitable destiny , since things that are produced by reason and by artists in the exercise of their craft ‘ do not seem to be produced by them through necessity , for they make each one of them indeed , but they are equally at liberty not to do so ’ .
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