Example sentences of "by [verb] [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite spontaneous , for the Germans instigated nothing although they would sometimes co-operate in an elementary way by allowing wood for goalposts or permitting the construction of a theatre . |
| 2 | The association 's director of public relations , Alison Slann , said : ‘ This major industry initiative provides significant benefits for the general public by allowing recourse for consumers dissatisfied with their relationship with a direct marketing member company and to seek to conciliate in the dispute . ’ |
| 3 | The Estonian Supreme Soviet on June 27 passed a law which restricted immigration into Estonia from the rest of the Soviet Union , as well as from abroad , by establishing quotas for immigrants and introducing permanent and temporary residence permits . |
| 4 | If we form the matrix unc by writing columns for rows in order , the new matrix , of order ( n × m ) is called the transpose of A and is denoted by |
| 5 | With experience you can sometimes spot the favoured side of a beat by looking upwind for clues . |
| 6 | It defrays the cost of litigation by providing cover for individuals and members of families or groups . |
| 7 | Platelets also participate in the fluid phase of coagulation through their active biochemical contents and by providing surfaces for reactions to take place . |
| 8 | Finally , a government controls people by providing remedies for breaches of laws and for the violation of people 's rights . |
| 9 | The Catering Committee will be considering whether what used to be St. Stephen 's tavern could help by providing facilities for visitors . |
| 10 | Your directors consider that employees at all levels should be encouraged to identify their interests with those of the Company 's shareholders and that this objective can be furthered by providing means for employees to become shareholders themselves . |
| 11 | Most other aspects of personnel management are single-status , too , although IBM UK has gone with the national trend by providing cars for managers where their outside counterparts would merit cars . |
| 12 | Elsewhere prisoners have restored a range of vintage farm machinery … this is strictly for show … but the prison horse is kept busy carrying hay.Leyhill earns its keep by providing food for jails throughout the south west … these glasshouses produce eight tons of tomatoes a week.Plants for displays at other prisons are also propagated under glass , together with the half a million bedding plants for use at Leyhill and elsewhere . |
| 13 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 14 | We can get some sort of control reference by comparing figures for fatalities and serious injuries ( all of which would be reported ) during commuting hours ( when drivers are most likely to be sober ) with those during weekend nights . |
| 15 | It is complemented by reading weekends for honours students , and by friendly , informal contact with the fifteen members of staff . |
| 16 | The Hungarian émigré Alexander Korda gained a foothold in British production by making Service for Ladies ( 1932 , Reserved for Ladies in US ) and five other pictures for Paramount . |
| 17 | I recouped the payment by making garment for friends and some of the girls in the office . |
| 18 | By placing responsibility for costs in the hands of clinicians , expenditure control can be made more sensitive to the clinical priorities . |
| 19 | Morrisons and Presto supermarkets are also doing their bit to help the people of Kostroma by leaving trolleys for shoppers to put tins of food in . |
| 20 | Despite these problems , excessive use of sprays can be avoided by monitoring crops for pests or damage . |
| 21 | The group was established to benefit the village area by raising funds for improvements . |
| 22 | We will encourage , and if necessary legislate for , banks to treat small businesses fairly by agreeing contracts for services . |
| 23 | On the one hand the cost of money capital could be reduced , by offering funds for projects consistent with the overall investment plan at low interest rates , and on the other the level of aggregate demand could be boosted by the public sector projects . |
| 24 | But by exchanging sterling for Deutschmarks and then Deutschmarks for dollars , 1 would buy $2.00 . |
| 25 | Therefore an arbitrageur could make virtually riskless profits by exchanging sterling for Deutschmarks , Deutschmarks for dollars and dollars for sterling : . |