Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tesseract will port Primrose to Unix by year end using Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Pyramid Technology Corp multi-processors . |
| 2 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 3 | She adds insult to injury by using the phrase ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ . |
| 4 | After-tax earnings per share fell 30 per cent to 21.87p and only just cover a dividend total held at 20p by a final of 13.4p , but the shares firmed 3p to 458p by the close . |
| 5 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what steps he is taking to encourage access to opera by young people and by a wider range of the public generally . |
| 6 | Placement may assist in pulling together the framework and coherent objectives for partnerships ; can explore how other organisations may be used ; is able to secure commitment to growth by partners through direct experience of one another ; establishes communications between the various partners ; may be used to identify who should be involved and at what levels ; provides a regular data and information flow through its exchange mechanism ; may indicate for the local area the support available from national employers that may be utilised at the local level ; constructs environments where introductions are purposeful between the partners and can adopt an incremental approach to partnership activity . |
| 7 | Our hood added insult to embarrassment by breaking the poppers on its leading edge one after the other until David Vivian found himself circumnavigating the M25 one evening with one hand on the wheel and another holding the hood to keep it from flying off . |
| 8 | As Fig. 24 illustrates , the basic pattern can give rise to others by changes in the phase difference between the stepping sequences of right and left sides . |
| 9 | A £1m five-year research project into the effects of atmospheric pollutants on forest and crops has suggested that pollutant gases in the atmosphere are causing damage to trees by triggering aphid attacks . |
| 10 | The sword was evidently the token of gift in a ceremony perhaps similar to that in which King Edgar granted privileges to Glastonbury by placing on the altar an ivory horn , which he ordered to be cut in half and preserved so that it could be offered as testimony in future . |
| 11 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 12 | LEAs would not he able to restrict admissions to schools by using artificial admissions limits . |
| 13 | He said Association member companies , 35 in total , fully support representations to MPs by the North Western region of the House Builders Federation . |
| 14 | From transporting valuables came the next step to transporting passengers to Europe by ocean liner . |
| 15 | And Eubank added taunts to temptation by saying : ‘ Despite what Benn says , I still think the man is bottling another fight with me . |
| 16 | His very social nature is the source of conflicts and antagonisms that create resistance to socialization by the norms of the societies which have existed in the course of human history . |
| 17 | Conversely , when a war was being concluded and there was a prospect of reductions in the size of the army , many officers of the younger regiments attempted to avoid reduction to half-pay by trying their interest with a politician , but the practice of transferring to a new regiment to accelerate promotion , and then regaining a place in an old one while retaining the rank already gained , demanded very good political connections . |
| 18 | The , in the last few months alone , we 've also had visits to Brussels by the General Secretary , the Deputy General Secretary , a number of Regional Secretaries , political officers , training officers and others . |
| 19 | Young guitarist Eric Clapton paid tribute to King by purposely copying one of his hit solos . |
| 20 | The photograph was in black and white and showed pretensions to art by being shot through a wide-angle lens with Blufton 's face in close-up . |
| 21 | Subjecting proposals to scrutiny by a body distinct from management may well be desirable , but this is clearly a function for an actual supervisory board , and not one for the court . |
| 22 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 23 | This follows allegations in a book called Excursion to Hell by Vincent Bramley , who served in the conflict . |
| 24 | He owed loyalty to fitzAlan by ties of friendship as well as family , and would return her to his brother-in-law before she could blink . |
| 25 | Tolly cheers deal exporting brew to Italians By Helen Robertson |
| 26 | Extensive investigations into the business are normally required by the financial institutions , giving rise to charges by accountants , management consultants , actuaries , lawyers and other professional advisers . |
| 27 | In seeking to interpret the Constitution , the courts may have recourse to works by constitutional experts . |
| 28 | Given the disparate sources of the Constitution and the fact that important relationships within and between organs of the state are not laid down in any one formal or binding document , it is not surprising that one must have recourse to books by constitutional scholars to discover the extent and nature of those relationships . |
| 29 | ‘ So that Aunt Margaret can sell things to people by writing the prices down , she being dumb . ’ |
| 30 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |