Example sentences of "by the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villus height depends upon two factors ; firstly on cellular multiplication and differentiation from the crypts ; and secondly on the migration of mature cells along the villus axis , accompanied by the cellular shedding from the apex . |
| 2 | In the hope of forestalling this he was urged by the Japanese to retreat to his stronghold of Manchuria and establish himself as ruler of an autonomous Manchuria under Japanese tutelage . |
| 3 | 1.2 The Programmer will deliver the Program to the Publisher by the dated specified in Part 1 of the Schedule ( or by any later date agreed between the parties ) ; in this respect time shall be of the essence of the contract . |
| 4 | 1.2 The Programmer will deliver the Program to the Publisher by the dated specified in Part 1 of the Schedule ( or by any later date agreed between the parties ) ; in this respect time shall be of the essence of the contract . |
| 5 | Furthermore , many of the women and girls working at fruit-picking and jam-making were related to railway workers at nearby Cambridge Station and were brought to work by the 8.20 train from Cambridge in the morning and taken back home by the 6.34 in the evening . |
| 6 | The width is 180 squares , so multiply this by the 70 obtained for height . |
| 7 | The figures of those lost in The Great Wars are dwarfed by the millions involved in the slaughter of the unborn . |
| 8 | In the case of ‘ case-hardened ’ plywood the edges of the tubes are bent over and turned inwards by the hot plattens of the press which makes the plywood , so that the glue is prevented from penetrating and the joint has no strength ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 9 | Socialism-for-the-rich had by the 1970s ceased to be a mere phrase and become a visible fact . |
| 10 | Other men raised doubts about the rightness of the war itself : the poet Gower spoke of ‘ this false war ’ ; the chronicler Walsingham , no mean chauvinist in his day , by the 1380s referred to ‘ this useless royal war ’ . |
| 11 | In 1870 the ninety serving in the French foreign ministry , for example , were dwarfed by the 1,500 employed in the ministry of finance , the largest of all French central government departments . |
| 12 | Evidence , reference , footnotes by the thousand testify to a scrupulous researcher who , while insistently arguing her own socialist-feminist case , does considerable justice to a full range of different theoretical and political positions . |
| 13 | Having only just made peace with his companion of fifteen years , Anjelica Huston , he was struck by the first kiss-and-tell in his entire life , and he was angry . |
| 14 | Junior counsel for the appellant is then invited to address the court , followed by the two counsel for the respondent ( or Crown ) . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the rights of local residents have to be given very careful consideration by the haulier applying for the grant of an O licence . |
| 16 | On Friday we visit the Heritage Museum and Brodick Castle Gardens , then return by the 13.50 ferry to the mainland and Glasgow/Edinburgh by 17.30 . |
| 17 | Run by the few fell to the many , and |
| 18 | There were parties paid for by the interested ranging from Lord King of BA to The Times newspapers . |
| 19 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 20 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 21 | The vessels used by the French had to be brought from Marseille and Genoa . |