Example sentences of "[noun] by [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss resulted from a practice known as tobashi , which involved brokers shifting investment losses by one client to another , in order to prevent a favoured client from having to report the loss . |
| 2 | If the conviction is upheld , the hotel queen 's new palace could be a women 's prison in Connecticut , about 20 miles from the $11 million mansion she refurbished at the taxpayers ' expense by charging repairs to her business . |
| 3 | Alcohol may also affect cholesterol metabolism by decreasing catabolism to bile acids ( Lefevre et al , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 5 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 6 | The oldest player to take part was 81 year old Tom Rowney , who represented St. George 's Hill , who lost to The 45 Club by 3 matches to 1 . |
| 7 | Lymphocytes , however , show quite specific recirculation patterns in which particular subsets leave the blood circulation by first adhering to high endothelial venule cells at specific sites — for example , peripheral lymph nodes or mucosal associated lymphoid tissue . |
| 8 | Despite long-held opposition by many feminists to sociobiology and ethology ( the most common basis to the feminist argument being that male aggression is entirely culturally derived ) their conclusions are very similar . |
| 9 | The Likud-led coalition easily survived a vote of no confidence in the Knesset on Nov. 5 , defeating the Labour Party and other left-wing parties by 57 votes to 50 . |
| 10 | Farnham Town Football Club lost to Carshalton Athletic Reserves by five goals to one in the final of the Surrey Intermediate Cup competition played at Woking Sports Ground . |
| 11 | Reports in early March suggested that the US administration had defied a ban on military sales to Pakistan by issuing licences to commercial companies worth US$100,000,000 for the export of military spare parts . |
| 12 | That process was given effect in the year under review by formal submissions to Government and these involved : |
| 13 | Many attempts to assist the less advantaged rural areas sought to create new job opportunities by attracting industry to them . |
| 14 | Although the Scottish Division defeated re-affiliation by 88 votes to 6 at its Conference in February 1938 the MPs continued to press for a return to the Labour Party . |
| 15 | Richard Cadette score a hat-trick for Falkkirk last night as they defeated Dundfermline by four goals to one . |
| 16 | The UN Trusteeship Council ( comprising the five permanent members of the Security Council ) at a meeting on June 1 approved conclusions and recommendations to the Security Council on the Guam accord by four votes to one , with the Soviet Union voting against . |
| 17 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 18 | The Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement ) at a congress in Lyon on June 13-14 elected Jean-Francois Hory as its president by 505 votes to 230 to succeed Emile Zuccarelli , appointed Minister for Posts and Telecommunications in the new government in April [ see p. 38870 ] . |
| 19 | It was reported on Nov. 18 that , following a general election , Nauru 's new parliament had re-elected Bernard Dowiyogo as the country 's President by 10 votes to seven . |
| 20 | Wales took victory in the men 's match by 72-65 , but Scotland ran out overall winners by 148-115 thanks to a comfortable women 's victory . |
| 21 | Manchester United lost to Sheffield United in the week and at Old Trafford this afternoon they were struggling again when Everton scored twice in the first half through Newell and Everton ; Everton the winners by two goals to nil . |
| 22 | The 'dogs ran in 10 tries to 2 by the Sharks to finish as winners by 52 points to 12 . |
| 23 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 24 | Bicester had to withstand incessant Old Boys pressure in the final quarter of an hour , finally were outright winners by twelve points to seven . |
| 25 | In a letter of intent to the IMF , details of which were released on May 29 , the government had pledged further to reduce inflation to 2 per cent per month for the second part of the year and to achieve the reduction of the fiscal deficit to 1 per cent over the following nine months by further adjustments to public utility prices and controls on public sector wages . |
| 26 | However , in 1985 the House of Lords entered the scene by admitting cameras to its debates . |
| 27 | Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat , the Brunei banker who helped Standard Chartered fend off Lloyds Bank 's £1.3 billion bid six years ago , has increased his stake by 1 p.c. to 14 p.c . |
| 28 | immediate cease-fire and withdrawal by both parties to their sides of the recognized international borders ; |
| 29 | After that it was back to cup action where a victory was won against Kilsyth by 4 goals to nil . |
| 30 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |