Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | You can judge the effectiveness of different methods by the number of eggs produced . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Divide the number of words by the number of sentences to give an average measure of words per sentence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It became possible to control , if not cure , the symptoms of many psychiatric disorders by the use of drugs , and therefore it was possible to discharge patients after fairly short stays in hospital , continuing their drug therapy , in many cases , as out-patients . |
| 8 | Yet , according to calculations by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals , the two universities performed much as expected , given their subject mix . |
| 9 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 10 | ( a ) Examples of additional enquiries ( 1 ) Is the seller aware of any development or proposals for the development or use of property in the neighbourhood which might adversely affect the property or the amenities of persons living in it ? ( 2 ) Has the property to the seller 's knowledge been affected at any time by structural , building or drainage defects , flooding , dry rot , timber infestation or rising damp ? ( 3 ) Please confirm that any damage caused to decorations by the removal of fixtures and fittings will be made good by the seller before completion . |
| 11 | We have then in homoeopathy a system of therapeutics which aims at helping the body 's innate self-healing abilities by the use of remedies derived in the main from the mineral , vegetable and animal realms . |
| 12 | The move also followed the passing of budget resolutions by the House of Representatives on May 1 and by the budget committee of the Senate on May 2 , both of which embodied much deeper cuts in military expenditure than those contained within the Bush budget , which was increasingly viewed as obsolete because of its failure to address the implications of the radical change in Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | This approach is most obviously to the fore in Buddhism which emphasizes the necessity for getting beyond concepts by the use of words like anatta , anicca , and nirvana . |
| 14 | Major geographical changes appear to have caused widespread extinctions by the destruction of habitats . |
| 15 | The formation of ordered growth centres by the alignment of chains from the melt is called spontaneous nucleation . |
| 16 | There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms . |
| 17 | Other similarly inadequate and tortuous routes have been suggested to combine NNEB qualifications for nursery nurses with those offered for translators and interpreters by the Institute of Linguists , or for office workers , business people , and other professionals by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry . |
| 18 | Research is currently being carried out to manipulate haemoglobin F levels by the use of drugs , although progress to date has been disappointing . |
| 19 | Drama , counterpoint can be enriched beyond bald competition between two themes by the use of transitions and interweaving sub-plots . |
| 20 | Not everyone is moved to tears by the fate of vultures and wolves , but it is possible to think that the old crops of predators and scavengers were somehow more attractive than the new lot . |
| 21 | … Law then emerges as the evaluation of the interests by the interweaving of interests . |
| 22 | Even if they do , the timing of the tax payments by the recipient of dividends may differ from that of the tax payments to those making dividend payments . |
| 23 | The process of identifying these sites has been enhanced by the introduction of the new GIS for road accidents by the Director of Highways . |
| 24 | The European Parliament should be given further additional powers : powers to initiate proposals for legislation , which would be considered by the Commission and the Council of Ministers ; powers of second reading on social and environmental decisions by the Council of Ministers . |
| 25 | Such reflections , of course , are counterbalanced by equally sketchy references to the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ during the period of transition from capitalism to socialism , and to the eventual ‘ abolition of the state ’ , the elimination of ‘ a political power properly so-called ’ , and the replacement of ‘ the government of men by the administration of things ’ ( the latter notion derived from Saint-Simon ) . |
| 26 | Another consequence of modern farming has been a change in the types of farm buildings , which may have affected Barn Owl and Swallow numbers by the loss of sites as traditional Sussex barns disappear . |
| 27 | As the price of the underlying assets changes , the value of the units will change and will be calculated ( again ignoring expenses ) by dividing the current value of the assets by the number of units in existence . |
| 28 | You will be advised in detail of the highway requirements by the Director of Highways in the next few days . |
| 29 | A seminar tonight held by Belfast educational psychologists Mary Blease and Bridgeen O'Neill is the first in a series of measures by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers to help their members cope . |
| 30 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |