Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domestic monetary policy , it is generally accepted , was primarily determined by the defence of sterling by means of interest-rate manipulation and credit control and , over the whole period , was ineffective in controlling the money supply . |
| 2 | Groups of actors have often provided the focus of stories about the victimisation of innocents by totalitarian forces ( examples include To Be or Not to Be , Privates on Parade , The Last Metro and the recent Spanish film Ay , Carmela ! ) , so it 's interesting to see such a relatively early variation on the theme as this . |
| 3 | An education service is provided by the park for use by the many thousands of school children who visit the park each year . |
| 4 | It could take account of recent attempts to enlarge the canon , particularly by the addition of poetry by women , and other marginalized groups . |
| 5 | Whether or not patronage is used in a party political manner , the non-departmental sector nevertheless ‘ affords the opportunity for government by co-option rather than by election or by merit appointment ’ ( Hood , 1978 , p. 41 ) . |
| 6 | We have already reduced the opportunity for abuse by our introduction of tape-recorded interviews of suspects by the police . |
| 7 | Additionally , an implication of the suggestions on the contribution of non-executives made above is the opportunity of reports by non-executives on the watching briefs . |
| 8 | ‘ requiring a seat belt ’ This can be proved in the majority of cases by showing that the vehicle was a normal saloon car being fitted with approved seat belts . |
| 9 | This point can be proved in the majority of cases by the observations of the reporting officer . |
| 10 | I use them , but I keep them separated from the majority of plants by surrounding them with strips of glass siliconed to the tank base . |
| 11 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 12 | It also supports the advancement of education by payment , in cases of genuine need , of part of the school fees of children interested in skiing , at ski academies throughout the world . |
| 13 | The great stations stand , if they do still stand , as towering monuments to that belief , public meeting-places where faith in the perfectibility of man by his own ingenuity and the blessing of a divine providence was daily affirmed . |
| 14 | The remainder after division by 100000 , i.e. the last digits of the nine-digit key . |
| 15 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 16 | An important alternative is the reduction of sulphate by sulphate reducing bacteria . |
| 17 | Discharges from refining and use of oil fell from 300,000 tonnes in 1980 to 60,000 tonnes in 1992 , exceeding targets for the reduction of emissions by 2000 . |
| 18 | His focus — no doubt justifiable by the Committee 's terms of reference — was limited : to the establishment of a single pension integrated into the new social insurance scheme , and the reduction of supplementation by the Assistance Board . |
| 19 | A social charter approved by the round table on March 5 , and by the Volkskammer at its session on March 6-7 , provided for a range of rights much more comprehensive than those guaranteed in West Germany , including the right to work , the right to strike and the banning of lockouts by management . |
| 20 | The term courtship , as used by ethologists , refers to all the behavioural interactions of the male and female which come before , and lead up to , the fertilization of eggs by sperm . |
| 21 | A security fence , with watchtowers , protects the base against attack by ground forces . |
| 22 | Mayhew gives a vivid picture for the 1850s of the variety of means by which the London casual poor scraped a living [ doc 1 ] . |
| 23 | She had made a gesture in the direction of decency by wearing a veil , behind which she sat disdainfully . |
| 24 | Instructions contained in the owner 's manual state that adjustment should be carried out on the tip opposite to the direction of turn by reducing the angle of incidence , one setting at a time , following which a flight test must be carried out . |
| 25 | Although many students were pushed , or encouraged , in the direction of science by schools or family , the physics students generally felt that physics had special qualities that appealed to them . |
| 26 | By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy . |
| 27 | Indexed files are easily created as a result of the provision of software by manufacturers . |
| 28 | On the one hand , manufactured goods like washing machines and power tools encourage consumers to provide their own services in the home ( DIY — ‘ do it yourself ’ ) while on the other , some of the large increases in service employment result from the provision of work by service enterprises for other firms . |
| 29 | An underlying theme of change since the early 1980s which has sometimes been buried in the overall conflict over spending levels has been a move towards the privatization of services : that is , the replacement of previously direct local government provision by the provision of services by commercial enterprises under contract to local authorities . |
| 30 | However , the provision of services by a branch does not clearly fall within either of these principles , because the services are provided from the host member state itself , and accordingly either alternative seems available . |