Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretory effect of cholera toxin in our study probably continued for hours as evidenced by the stool output after the experiment . |
| 2 | ( d ) Solicitation for proxies and voting by proxy holders |
| 3 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 4 | A mixed blessing for traders but welcomed by shoppers |
| 5 | The plaintiff will be the tenant and the landlord the defendant , but if head lessors or mortgagees are likely to be affected they should be added as defendants and served by the lessee , or else notice should be given to them that they may apply to be joined if desired . |
| 6 | The ‘ higher criticism ’ , examining the Bible as one would any other ancient text , only impinged on the Church of England in 1860 with the publication of Essays and Reviews by various authors including Frederick Temple and Benjamin Jowett . |
| 7 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 8 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 9 | The data manipulation unit is capable of performing any of a fixed set of operations as signalled by the control unit . |
| 10 | These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature . |
| 11 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 12 | We are concerned with the quality of relationships as expressed by contrasts rather than with a direct concordance of ethnographic fact . |
| 13 | An attempt to identify those social properties which pertain to objects as artefacts , for example , as opposed to the properties of words as discovered by linguists , or dreams as discovered by psychologists , can only be achieved through a balance between two procedures . |
| 14 | ( iii ) Discussion should bring out examples of words and expressions which tend to undergo very rapid change in use or meaning — eg terms of approbation ( wicked , brill ) ; differences in the use and meanings of words as used by pupils , their parents and grandparents — eg wireless , radio , tranny , receiver ; and new words that have become part of the English vocabulary during the last 50 years or so , eg computer , astronaut , macho . |
| 15 | he in Bromborough between 30 April 1986 and 30 September 1991 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1986 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with Statement of Standard Acounting Practice ( SSAP ) 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and |
| 16 | he in Bromborough between 28 February 1989 and 1 April 1989 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1987 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with SSAP 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and |
| 17 | he in Bromborough between 30 April 1990 and 1 June 1990 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1988 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with SSAP 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and |
| 18 | he in Bromborough between 30 April 1988 and 8 February 1991 whilst his firm were the auditors of a limited company issued an audit report on that company 's accounts for the year ended 30 April 1989 in which the accounts did not contain a statement of accounting policies in accordance with SSAP 2 and a statement of source and application of funds as required by SSAP 10 and in that |
| 19 | There are indeed some paradoxical pains — that is , pain that is aggravated by the use of analgesics or relieved by the use of antalgesics . |
| 20 | Hearing of the project only through the " headteachers ' grapevine " , some heads ( understandably enough ) perceived the selection of schools as achieved by " back-door " methods including the collusion and patronage of the inspectorate . |
| 21 | He came into his own here , so to speak , in the second half in directing a succession of polkas and waltzes by Johann the younger . |
| 22 | In vitro experiments have suggested that secretory IgA is a very potent activator of eosinophils as measured by degranulation , being two to three times more potent than monomeric IgA . |
| 23 | The resulting population of adherent cells , subsequently designated monocytes , was more than 95% esterase positive and showed the morphological characteristics of monocytes as determined by Giemsa stained preparations . |
| 24 | This conception of individuals as determined by social practice is familiar enough , but it remains to see how Althusser fills it out . |
| 25 | In most cases , they are constructed mainly of bryozoans and capped by a unit of stromatolites ( Füchtbauer 1972 ; Smith 1958 and 1981 ; Peryt 1978 ) , but locally they are formed entirely of stromatolites ( Paul 1980 ) . |
| 26 | If separation of powers as expressed by Montesquieu does not exist , is there nevertheless sufficient separation of functions and a sufficient incidence of checks and balances to guarantee the maintenance of liberty ? |
| 27 | It soon emerged that performance was high on Ashton 's list of priorities as indicated by his having taken a series of lessons in Formula Fords at Brand 's Hatch . |
| 28 | The plaintiffs rely on the ordinary meaning of that word as connoting faulty administration or inefficient or improper management of affairs as approved by Eveleigh L.J . |
| 29 | In 1860 , the last bishop to wear his wig to the House of Lords died , and his successor as Bishop of Rochester , Dr Joseph Wigram , sharply criticised the wearing of beards and moustaches by the clergy . |
| 30 | Vere Bird Jr had his appointment as a minister revoked on May 10 and was replaced as Minister of Communications and Works by Eustace Cochrane ( hitherto a Minister without Portfolio ) . |