Example sentences of "of [noun] to [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She undertook the first serious application of photography to science by making photograms of her extensive collection of algae . |
| 2 | Mark bought an elephant , Tara , for £4000 and embarked on a 600 mile trek with five eccentric Indian companions , from Konarak on the shores of the Bay of Bengal to Sonepur by the mighty River Ganges . |
| 3 | Some have therefore concluded that such a tax deduction system would increase the flow of revenue to charities by more than the tax loss and hence produce an increase in social service provision . |
| 4 | In this section we have seen that it is usually possible to reduce the number of accesses to synonyms by loading first the records most frequently accessed . |
| 5 | The Commission initially addressed the problem of barriers to takeovers by commissioning an internal report by Booz-Allen and Hamilton . |
| 6 | The major constraints which tenure conditions impose upon conservation programmes that discourage private initiatives to invest in conservation practices are short leases which tempt the tenant to remove as much plant material and nutrients as possible from the soil within the period of tenancy ; insecurity of tenants in longer leases ; uncertainty of compensation to tenants by landlords for conservation works at the end of the lease ; and a lack of an accepted means by which landlord and tenant can share these outlays in the first place ( Barlowe 1958 ) . |
| 7 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 8 | William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days . |
| 9 | The effect of consent to treatment by the minor or someone else with authority to give it is limited to protecting the medical or dental practitioner from claims for damages for trespass to the person . |
| 10 | The catalysted conversion of methanol to ethanol by arrangement of two carbon monoxide and two iodide ligands attached to the central rhodium , which is in the rather low formal oxidation state of + 1 . |
| 11 | The catalysed conversion of methanol to ethanol by reaction with syn-gas , is also possible but not yet commercial . |
| 12 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 13 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 14 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 15 | Addition of the anti-E-cadherin antibody ECCD-1 into the binding assay reduced adhesion of LC to KC by 81 4% ( n =3 experiments ) ; equal amounts of anti-CD8 , anti-ICAM-1 and anti-Mac-1 antibody had no effect on LC binding ( Fig. 3 e ) . |
| 16 | Later this month , federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters . |
| 17 | One example of such a model is that of Vidale and Wolfe who related the rate of change of sales to advertising by the equation : unc where S = sales at time t ds/dt = rate of change of sales at time A = advertising expenditure at time r = sales response factor ( sales generated per unit of advertising expenditure ) M = saturation level of sales ( sales maximum ) |
| 18 | First is the liability of hops to deterioration by oxygen in the air . |
| 19 | The resulting work will be of use to policy-makers by providing a critical , through assessment in a field dominated by myths and emotions |
| 20 | These developments and the support provided for them were constantly underpinned by the continued demonstration of commitment to partnership by the school 's Governors and senior management team . |
| 21 | Richard Langhorn , the No. 8 whose stitches resulted in a letter of complaint to Swansea by Harlequins , has been passed fit to play for Quins in this weekend 's First Division game at Bedford . |
| 22 | The difference of view seems to be that a deficiency of official reserves and lack of access to funds by some countries is a reflection of their creditworthiness rather than a global lack of reserves . |
| 23 | It was announced on Sept. 1 that the former Socialist ( SPÖ ) Chancellor , Fred Sinowatz , together with the former Foreign Minister , Leopold Gratz , and the former Interior Minister , Karl Blecha , would be charged with abuse of office in connection with the illegal sale of arms to Iran by the Noricum company in 1984-85 . |
| 24 | Darwin tells us that he was spurred on to commit his theory about the mutability of species to paper by having read Thomas Malthus 's An Essay on the Principle of Population . |
| 25 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 26 | Over the first four years , the company projected an income growth from some £60,000 in the first year of operation to £555,000 by the fourth year . |
| 27 | And thirdly , Paul argues that the way of self-commendation to God by merit is not the way of God 's heroes in the Old Testament . |
| 28 | We have no direct control over the provision of services to clients by suppliers . |
| 29 | Fifth-century Athens followed Pisistratus ' example consciously : he had swivelled the Eleusis Hall of Mysteries round so as to face the city of Athens ; in the 420s Athens inscribed a great decree regulating the offering of first-fruits to Eleusis by her own demes , by the cities of the empire , and by others of the Greeks ( ML 73 = Fornara 140 ) . |