Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long time must be spent on suppling the horse by the use of circles , turns , changes of bend and transitions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You can not judge a TV campaign 's weight by the number of crosses on a visual . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Take the external measurements ( length and breadth only ) of your house , multiply them , then multiply that figure by the number of storeys |
| 17 | The other is about the absorption of individual action by the system of rules governing it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | For John , on his endless round of visits to cuttings and embankments , tunnels and bridges , it was sometimes hard to believe that all this buzz of well-organized industry could be brought to a halt by the movement of bits of paper in the far-off City . |
| 24 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 25 | Anand was chosen despite the passage by the House of Representatives on June 10 of amendments to the Constitution , the chief among which , intended to reduce the role of the military , stipulated that a future Prime Minister had to be an elected member of parliament . |
| 26 | ( ii ) The professional judgement of the assessors may be focused to some degree by the employment of criteria . |
| 27 | He was plagued in the south by the lack of models . |
| 28 | Because of the recent declarations of independence by the majority of republics there were fears that without an agreement on economic union the economy would collapse . |
| 29 | Ltd. , sought determination by the court of questions arising out of a charterparty made between themselves and the defendants , Woodhouse Drake & Carey ( Suisse ) S.A. , relating to a cargo of rice on board the vessel Mary . |
| 30 | Anna Essinger 's commitment to refugee children was extended into the peace by the arrival of youngsters who had survived the concentration camps . |