Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do so , both verbs and nouns need to be qualified by adjectives and/or adverbs determined by the choreographers during the making of the design . |
| 2 | Problems may arise in respect of expatriates working in the same location on longer-term postings or even local company employees who are dissatisfied with their rates of pay in comparison with salaries and/or bonuses earned by fixed-term contract workers . |
| 3 | In both children and adults there may be a rash of tiny red-purple spots or bruises caused by bleeding under the skin . |
| 4 | Birthmarks , or other natural defects , were thought to be marks or bruises left by elves , and Queen Margaret insulted Shakespeare 's Richard III accordingly : |
| 5 | Parliament , moreover , was open to considerable royal influence , since a large proportion of its members , both in the House of Lords and the House of Commons , held offices , pensions or contracts awarded by the Crown . |
| 6 | For the equivalent of £8.20 there was fruit juice , grapefruit , croissant or pastries followed by as many rashers of British bacon and British eggs as customers could manage . |
| 7 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 8 | All goods must be of sound materials , workmanship and ( where you are responsible for this ) design , and shall be equal in all respects to relevant samples , or patterns provided by or accepted by us . |
| 9 | The large urban or dockside warehouse is a building type strongly related to the grander grain and textile mills , not only because it often stored the raw materials or products processed by these latter buildings , but also in its constructional composition . |
| 10 | Such imprecision creates the greatest problems within a legalistic approach to restrictive practices , where courts faced by inadequate definition have had to develop their own interpretations . |
| 11 | In this way , researchers can never explain why it is that wants or preferences manifested by individuals in social and political action are originally formed . |
| 12 | The latest fishkeeping equipment & books reviewed by KAREN YOUNGS , NICK FLETCHER , IAN LUCAS and Editor STEVE WINDSOR . |
| 13 | Brassicas , for example , can then be netted against pigeons , or carrots surrounded by a low fence of plastic sheeting to repel root fly . |
| 14 | Nuclear extracts were also immunoprecipitated with CREB antibody ( Anti-CREB ) or proteins purified by sequence-specific DNA-affinity chromatography ( DNA-affinity ) and probed as above . |
| 15 | You will produce any memoranda or books held by him and , above all , the manuscript he was so fond of studying with its doggerel verses which drew him and others into the blackest treason . ’ |
| 16 | Much is sometimes made of the rivalries or jealousies fostered by these networks ; a ‘ revolution ’ occurred in 1974 when the person appointed to head the CNET , Jean-Pierre Souviron , was not , like his predecessors , the product of ENST but of another engineering ‘ grande école ’ — l'Ecole des Mines . |
| 17 | Policy would focus on economic efficiency , there would be explicit rules and guidelines ( including exemptions from the rules ) , there would be a relatively unified set of competition-policy institutions ( a strengthened OFT , and a reformed MMC to act as a tribunal to review the analysis and proposals for fines or remedies made by the OFT ) , and there would be penalties for abuses . |
| 18 | And everywhere the sun streamed or lay in golden pools or rainbow spots or squares made by windows patterned with the shadows of leaves . |
| 19 | This might involve the child in selecting a picture or an object from an array to match the word or words spoken by the teacher or therapist . |
| 20 | You can have hardly few weeks or months go by when you see some , you know er , latest lunatic disproof of Darwin , you know , appears in the press . |
| 21 | We have an active social life and often go out to dinners or parties given by couples like ourselves , in their 30s or 40s . |
| 22 | As with the plain indirect method , the mosaicist can make use of designs produced in a distant workshop , or designs produced by other craftsmen . |
| 23 | On the subject or responses mediated by the Th2 subset of CD4+ cells , the story of the eosinophil grows more intriguing with news that these cells are a major source of interleukin-5 and possess IgA receptors ( M. Capron , Pasteur-Lille ) . |
| 24 | So perhaps Hahnemann was quite right when he suggested that inherited factors from past infections or infections suffered by ancestors caused imbalances which lay at the heart of the chronic diseases . |
| 25 | Nor was he poor , in terms of the poverty portrayed in the colourful slides , where black children with hunger-distended bellies stared at the camera , where lepers crouched by begging bowls . |
| 26 | The safest way to ensure this is to take your basic structures from stories or texts told by your language helper or other speakers of the language . |
| 27 | Fourth ( less obviously ) , there are blocks caused by bacterial or viral toxins or byproducts which affect cellular function , or blocks caused by the insertion of viral DNA into our own genome , our own genetic material . |
| 28 | It is unnecessary for the purposes of this judgment to set out in any detail the content of these articles : it is sufficient to say that they question the propriety of certain investments made by the council of moneys in its superannuation fund , with Mr. Bookbinder as the prime mover , in three deals with Mr. Oyston or companies controlled by him . |
| 29 | Propagation can be achieved by planting cuttings or side-shoots produced by the plant on very short runners . |
| 30 | These clusters , which have been made readily available to agencies , provide a very useful ‘ shorthand ’ for analysing and describing relevant markets or brands covered by TGI , since the data provide a direct link between brand or product use and media use . |