Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unpublished figures compiled as part of research by the Department of the Environment reveal that acid rain is causing more extensive damage in Britain than previous estimates had suggested . |
| 2 | However , this is scant comfort as it simply brings the dates for payment of tax by the self employed such as partners on to a more current basis similar to that applicable to companies and PAYE employees . |
| 3 | Payments made ex gratia or as compensation for loss of office by the vendor of the business will not usually be deductible by the vendor because they are made in connection with the discontinuance of the trade and not for the purpose of enabling the company to carry on its trade . |
| 4 | There are even stories — apocryphal , perhaps — that her children 's toys are washed after visits from their little friends for fear of contamination by the common horde . |
| 5 | This conclusion directly contradicts many assertions in the literature ( Glue , 1971 ; Avery , 1977 ; Mayhew , 1977 ) that there is no loss of bone during digestion of prey by barn owls . |
| 6 | Never has Carrick been more lost for words than when he was approached in the Headingley committee-room after close of play by Reg Kirk , a former Yorkshire chairman . |
| 7 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 8 | Hailes is aware of the potential for exploitation of SustainAbility by industrialists who would like to present themselves as green without changing fundamentals : ‘ It is something we need to guard against . |
| 9 | Acting President Shehabuddin Ahmed opened the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) on April 5 [ see p. 38102 for formation of government by Bangladesh Nationalist Party — BNP — in mid-March ] . |
| 10 | Ambrose identifies an investment route in which buildings ( shorthand for modification of land by action ) are acquired in order to yield a stream of income . |
| 11 | For what we need is not only the idea of non-arbitrariness but the idea of error and the ( logical ) possibility of correction of error by third persons . |
| 12 | Treatment for all these patients was standardised and consisted of correction of dehydration by the administration of World Health Organisation glucose oral rehydration solution supplemented by parenteral fluids where necessary . |
| 13 | notification of change of rate by phone . |
| 14 | Whereas the problem of payment of compensation by local authorities to a developer refused planning consent had always proved a great obstacle to effective control , the new situation was that where land was developed , the increase in its value resulting from the grant of planning permission was secured for the community by the imposition of a development charge ( equivalent to 100 per cent of the increase in value ) , to be assessed and collected by a Central Land Board . |
| 15 | The denial of the importance of freedom of speech by the Chief Justice in Duncan v. Jones suggests that it is open to the constable to take the surest means to prevent a breach of the peace , and can take whatever steps he chooses . |
| 16 | The notion of the social division of labour as employed by these writers will , however , be reconstructed below under the name of division of labour by strata . |
| 17 | Temper tantrums are the end result and represent the classic example of perpetuation of immaturity by a failure to stop the ‘ reward ’ of attention that maintains such behaviour . |
| 18 | At the same time , local authorities have been subject to increasing financial constraints , resulting in the level of provision of accommodation by social services remaining static or even contracting slightly . |
| 19 | If for any reason you have to change sides , you can neutralize the effect of the apparent reversal of direction of movement by interposing a shot of the subject approaching ( or receding ) straight towards ( or away from ) the camera . |
| 20 | We therefore investigated the mode of action of TAGH by comparing in vivo and in vitro phenomena induced in hepatocytes by EGF and TAGH . |
| 21 | No significant difference was found in the rate of metabolism of butyrate by biopsy specimens taken from the ascending and descending colon ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 22 | But this resistance is weakened in the present context by allegations of misuse of power by the security services . |
| 23 | If the dangers of loss of prestige by the discipline are to be averted , James urged , not only must new measures such as joint schools and interdisciplinary studies be introduced , but the " catastrophic decline " in the medieval side of English studies must be reversed . |
| 24 | This was said to constitute ‘ a great violation of our national rights … and non-observation of attitude of neutrality by the British disarmament forces ’ . |
| 25 | Announcement of return of gold by UK |
| 26 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 27 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 28 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 29 | Bail Act 1976 , s.3(6A) — defendant accused of murder — condition on grant of bail of examination by medical practitioners — disclosure of reports |
| 30 | With the proclamation of the principle of conservation of energy by Helmholtz in Berlin from 1847 and then in a public lecture delivered at Königsberg on 7 February 1854 , the whole range of physical sciences began to take a new shape . |