Example sentences of "in [det] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a big advantage over Peter Slade in that by the time his seminal publication , Development through Drama , emerged in 1967 , the profession , particularly teachers in the Primary schools , was more eager to seize upon his message . |
| 2 | Ultimately the story , originating partly in imperial politics and partly in a literary vogue , was recorded in one version by Fredegar and in another by the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum . |
| 3 | It was the small firms who first spotted specialized market segments and exploited them , and they are encouraged in this by the ability to sub-contract most of the holiday provision to other operators . |
| 4 | They are encouraged in this by the manufacturing companies , which scarcely let a year go by without introducing a ‘ new improved ’ joint replacement which offers hitherto undreamt of ( and unproved ) advantages over the older designs . |
| 5 | They are enabled in this by the lack of language controls to describe offerings . |
| 6 | They had a personal stake in improving their own incomes ( and they were aided in this by the growth of white-collar and public-sector trade unions ) , and they had a professional commitment to improve the lot of the clients of their services . |
| 7 | As we saw earlier , societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards . |
| 8 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 9 | There was a final , violent crash of thunder , and in the bright light they saw that the tree had been torn in half by the lightning . |
| 10 | Belorussian industrial capacity had been split in half by the World War and its consequences . |