Example sentences of "[noun] by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a lifetime of line-ups by the sound of things , I say in a rather low voice . |
| 2 | A long time must be spent on suppling the horse by the use of circles , turns , changes of bend and transitions . |
| 3 | You can judge the effectiveness of different methods by the number of eggs produced . |
| 4 | It is true that small local fortifications , sometimes churches adapted at great expense by the addition of towers , parapets , walls and even moats , might bring some measure of safety , at least against small bands of soldiers or evil-doers . |
| 5 | They walked along by the harbour , where the tall masts and the draped fishing nets made a dramatic backcloth as the men prepared for their nightly trip out , working on the nets and the sailing gear by the light of lanterns , and with much singing and swearing and good-natured banter . |
| 6 | It 's thought the sword guard will be bought by The museum of Wales when it 's put up for auction by the Receiver of wrecks later this year . |
| 7 | And , in the determination of a new equilibrium between town and country this displacement of commodity production and circulation by the production of use-values and the circulation of products was further extended . |
| 8 | By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view . |
| 9 | To calculate the amount of fabric that is left for the pleats , deduct the pole length from the finished fabric width , and divide the result by the number of spaces . |
| 10 | For three or four colours on the screen , multiply the number of squares high by two , then multiply this result by the number of squares wide . |
| 11 | The RSC Research Fund exists to assist members in their research by the provision of grants of up to £1000 towards , for example , the purchase of chemicals or equipment or for running expenses of chemical education research . |
| 12 | You can not judge a TV campaign 's weight by the number of crosses on a visual . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Divide the number of words by the number of sentences to give an average measure of words per sentence . |
| 14 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 15 | In March 1992 , the group 's holding in Clerkenwell Ltd was reduced to 55% by the sale of shares to the local management . |
| 16 | Firstly , I think it 's a vote by the majority of parents to say that they want the school to stay local , to stay within Local Authority control . |
| 17 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 18 | But it was clear the statement was written yesterday because it hailed a vote by the House of Representatives on Tuesday night to make the extradition of drug traffickers a topic for a referendum . |
| 19 | The pope 's tribunal was the highest tribunal for all , but why should this tribunal not be extended in practice by the delegation of cases that came to it from all over Europe to judges , acting on behalf of the pope , in the countries from which the appeals came ? |
| 20 | The absolutist state was necessary to maintain control of a peasantry freed from the politico-legal coercion of feudalism by the commutation of dues into money rents . |
| 21 | Take the external measurements ( length and breadth only ) of your house , multiply them , then multiply that figure by the number of storeys |
| 22 | The other is about the absorption of individual action by the system of rules governing it . |
| 23 | The world of maths is male and this is reinforced in several books by the number of questions which revolve around men and boys doing things susceptible to mathematical calculation . |
| 24 | Because teachers ' centres and the increase of in-service education in the late 1970s and 1980s occurred outside schools , there was some separation between the flow of curriculum development in the sense in which it was supported in schools by the work of advisers and advisory teachers and in the way it made its impact on individual teachers through regular courses of familiarization and in-service education . |
| 25 | The Majlis now had 268 members , the results in two single-member constituencies having been declared invalid by the Council of Guardians ; re-runs for these two seats would be held by means of mid-term by-elections . |
| 26 | Because the flow stress of glass is very high at room temperature and because glass is very susceptible to fracture by the spread of cracks , glass , and materials like it , nearly always fracture in the familiar brittle manner and we find it difficult to imagine anything different happening . |
| 27 | An interesting point is that the tendency to fracture by the spreading of cracks is relatively little affected by temperature whereas the viscosity or shearing stress is very dependent upon temperature . |
| 28 | At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics . |
| 29 | Another aspect which is undoubtedly seen as a benefit by the majority of teachers , the elimination of the need to decide who should be doing ‘ O ’ level or CSE , was clearly identified by the Head of Art at Redbrook Secondary : |
| 30 | Such towns often show their unencumbered planned origins by the grid-pattern of streets , or generally rectangular layout , and they include not only the obvious planned towns such as those noted by Professor Hoskins at Kingston-upon-Hull ( 1293 ) and Strattord-upon Avon ( 1196 ) but also Newmarket , Suffolk ( 1217–23 ) , Market Harborough ( 1167–77 ) , Liverpool ( 1207 ) , Leeds ( 1207 ) and North Shields ( 1225 ) . |