Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geac Computer Corp Ltd has reported a third quarter net loss equivalent to $5.6m after an exceptional charge of $8.6m for buying in of software research by the library automation business , against a profit last time of $2.9m , on turnover that rose 31.7% to $22.3m ; net loss for the nine months was $241,000 against a profit last time of $5.1m , on turnover that rose 17.9% at $58.7m . |
| 2 | Media organizations , eager to disseminate stories with maximum speed on the basis of initial reports , ran a particular risk not only of news management by those giving their briefings , but also of giving prominence to " news " which later proved incorrect . |
| 3 | Most recently , second phase schools were sent question and pupil answer sheets as before but asked to provide their own apparatus from a detailed list supplied along with administration instructions by NFER . |
| 4 | Japan tries to do better in software engineering by emphasising teamwork , ‘ Team members who work together are , in their collective wisdom , far more effective than individuals working alone , ’ says Yukio Mizuno , associate senior vice-president at NEC . |
| 5 | The Parcours is monstrous , the size of a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with room for seven or eight , powered along in executive comfort by a Mercedes-Benz 32-valve V8 . |
| 6 | In the Forest of Dean alone the four verderers are still elected as they were in medieval times — by the freeholders of the county called together in County Court by the sheriff . |
| 7 | Now the Government has proposed to crack down on mileage allowances by taxing drivers who cover large distances . |
| 8 | It is this balance of power with governors which perhaps most intensely tests the management capacity of a head in relation to other teachers , but at the same time the power of teachers themselves to convert policies which are handed down from above into classroom practice by means of adaptation , domestication or subversion should not be overlooked ( Shipman 1990:156 — 7 ) . |
| 9 | Blake was not in fact English by birth nor was Blake his original name . ’ |
| 10 | It is to cross over Round Oak spring by Royce Wood corner for Woodcroft Castle . |
| 11 | steer conversations through to consensus decisions by encouraging group members to say what they really think and genuinely agree on a course of action |
| 12 | As in London , the civil authorities were anxious not to court unpopularity by exacting vengeance on the twelve seamen ultimately arrested . |
| 13 | The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers . |
| 14 | The researchers hope to make the new material more like elephant tusk by streaking it and roughening the texture . |
| 15 | It will probably cost the bridesmaid a lot more in back pain by the time she distributes them round the hall . |
| 16 | The spending cuts would reduce the bill for an average Band D home in Castle Point by £18 to £625 and in Harlow by £288 to £987 . |
| 17 | In tropical countries , where disease due to D. viviparus may occur intermittently , the epidemiology is presumably quite different and probably depends more on pasture contamination by carrier animals such as may occur during flooding when cattle congregate on damp , high areas , rather than on the prolonged survival of infected larvae . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 19 | The scheme , drawn up after pilot projects by a steering group under Duncan Graham , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , had the support of all the teachers ' and heads ' unions as well as the local authority employers . |
| 20 | A visit should also include the Chapel of the Pietà , occasionally known as the chapel of San Satiro , where there is a superb Deposition made up of terracotta figures by the artist Agostino De Fondutis . |
| 21 | In Somerset , consultants already hold clinics in GPs ' surgeries , but the health authority is looking at new ways of providing services in rural areas , following a recent survey which showed a low take up of hospital services by those in remote areas with poor transport . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Since the cases before the court are concerned with the taking up of fishing activities by nationals of a member state and the pursuit of those activities in another member state using a vessel registered in that state , article 59 of the E.E.C Treaty on freedom to provide services , which was raised by the Spanish Government , does not seem to me to be applicable . |
| 23 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 24 | The most convenient way to study flows of this sort is to look at old examples which have been brought up above sea level by earth movements of one kind or another , and which have been subsequently cut through by erosion and exposed in clean , dry cliff sections . |
| 25 | South Korea , China , Taiwan and Yemen have been identified as countries trading illegally in rhinoceros horn by the standing committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of World Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) . |
| 26 | Item twenty as well as twenty six , you are suggesting that meals go up in day centres by fifteen percent , and then on twenty six , we introduce a two pound a week for daycare , for people with learning disabilities . |
| 27 | ‘ I patched him up in record time by the roadside . |
| 28 | ‘ Money for the trips came partly from ourselves and our families , but also from fund raising by Aisling 's school and the general public . |
| 29 | ‘ And we must be very near to Planet Zog by now . |
| 30 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |