Example sentences of "[vb mod] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they should by law , surely ! |
| 2 | If she should by chance ever read these words , I think she would confirm not merely that this was how he spoke but that I have not misrepresented her reactions . |
| 3 | Every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of land adjoining a railway should by letter , with a plan , search before exchange of contracts for details of any rights of the Authority over the land or any liability for maintenance of boundaries attaching to it . |
| 4 | True liquidated damages clauses should by definition be reasonable under s 3 of the UCTA , since they are a genuine pre-estimate of the damage suffered as a result of the type of breach in question . |
| 5 | At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed . |
| 6 | Where the subject is in danger of losing his liberty it is desirable that the wider terms of section 23(1) of the Act of 1968 should by analogy be applied . |
| 7 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 8 | An air of crisis hung over the closing stages of the 1993-94 budget process : the rejection of Bill Clinton 's stimulus package and a last-minute shortfall in grants from the state government in Albany left a $100m hole that suddenly forced fresh cuts on City Hall ( which , unlike the federal spendthrifts , must by law balance its budget ) . |
| 9 | A local education authority must by law appoint a chief education officer ( Regan 1979:28 ) : the people appointed assume responsibilities within the major spending service provided by local government . |
| 10 | In addition to current and capital accounts , appropriate local authorities must by law maintain separate accounts dealing with such services as housing and transport . |
| 11 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 12 | There had earlier been an interim order which lasted for some 13 days up to 23 December 1991 and it is common ground on this appeal that the 13 days must by reason of the regulations be subtracted from the three months . |
| 13 | The aim was cooperation to secure ‘ social redemptive work ’ which must by nature be ‘ thoroughly and systematically undertaken ’ . |
| 14 | Any theist committed to the view that God is omnipresent must by definition believe that there is evidence of God 's presence in the reality observed on earth . |
| 15 | Because they focus on local-level , small-scale issues , their achievements must by definition be limited to that level , and success , that is the accomplishment of the task , may even mean the disbandment of the movement . |
| 16 | An important point is that nearly all the methods which measure use must by definition relate to use of libraries ' existing collections , and thus reflect their existing limitations . |
| 17 | For all its frequent invocation as the ‘ concrete ’ , history must by definition entail a problematic represencing of an absence ; Derrida therefore argues that , even in its ‘ materialist ’ conceptualization , it can not avoid a certain metaphysics . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the dividing line between norm and criterion-referencing is far less distinct than it would appear , since the establishing of standards of performance used for assessment criteria must by definition imply the use of some form of yardstick or norm . |
| 19 | And therefore it must by definition be the case that anything over and above the one hundred and twenty two which I know Selby have not challenged on on on the basis of the assessment , er anything over and above that hundred and twenty two must siphon investment and economic activity from somewhere else because it 's not local , it 's not it 's not unemployed , it 's not local needs and it 's not migration . |
| 20 | In so doing it might by accident precipitate a general war , one from which the United States might emerge victorious , but which would leave Britain and Europe a radioactive desert . |
| 21 | Parliament could by legislation have provided for the revocation or variation of an injunction , but did not do so in section 39 . |
| 22 | He says he can capture far more detail on slides than he could by sketching . |
| 23 | We could by measurement give a numerical specification of each of the parts of the causal circumstance-the operation of the heater , its relative location , and so on-and also such a specification of the effect . |
| 24 | Young Basque men emigrated because no patrimony could by custom be divided , leaving younger sons to fend for themselves . |
| 25 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 26 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 27 | Model B , the plan favoured by the DES , would by contrast create a new sector of higher education consisting of about 90 major institutions of higher education in England outside the universities , including all initial teacher training . |
| 28 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 29 | Indeed , if it were , it would by definition not be random . |
| 30 | The wording referring to the specific location in the location description would by definition have to be drawn up the region , cos they would have intimate knowledge of the locality that er sorry and the costs would be drawn up by the region because they would know as I say intimately they would know that specific development |