Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I draw your attention , however , to work No. 5 , which is about ’ a railway commencing in the London borough of Islington by a junction with the Great Northern Railway at a point immediately below the southern portal of the western bore of Copenhagen tunnel ’ ? |
| 2 | The export of wood by merchants from Ragusa and other Dalmatian cities to the Arabs in Egypt , North Africa , Spain and Sicily contributed to the deforestation of the immediate hinterland . |
| 3 | However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C . |
| 4 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 5 | As a repository of works by some of the country 's leading names , the walls of the Underground certainly leave an impression . |
| 6 | What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ . |
| 7 | We also had to learn a great deal of poetry by heart — poetry which I can still recall all these years later . |
| 8 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 9 | Time and again we find him casting out unclean spirits from afflicted people : it is one of the well-known characteristics of Mark 's Gospel which on the whole contains little teaching , but a great deal of action by Jesus . |
| 10 | To carry these out well entails a great deal of labour by the clergy and their devoted lay helpers . |
| 11 | The maximum transport occurs in the breaker zone , where wave action is strong and continuous and where the lifting of particles by waves allows the current to operate to fullest effect . |
| 12 | He points out that in many areas , especially service industries , organisations have improved their efficiency and effectiveness and increased the perception of quality by getting the clients to do the work — self-service outlets are an obvious example . |
| 13 | The first phase of this initiative funded seven projects pertaining to the following themes : the implications of social and economic changes in the country on children in care ; the effects of regional differences in administrative and policy procedures on children in care ; evaluation of alternative forms of care ; and the perception of care by children and other parties . |
| 14 | Extraction of water by companies rather than below-average rainfall is responsible for the drying out of many of Britain 's streams and rivers , according to Lord Buxton , a leading conservationist . |
| 15 | Extraction of profits by vendor |
| 16 | The great Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne ( d. 814 ) convoked synods and gave their decisions the force of law by issuing them as royal capitularies . |
| 17 | The up-grading of the priest meant the down-grading of the layman and , as status declined , so criticism began to be voiced against the ecclesiastical hierarchy and against exclusive administration of sacraments by priests as the sole means of salvation . |
| 18 | He quotes a number of examples in illustration , which include the administration of cannabis by teenage babysitters ( Schwartz et al . , |
| 19 | The key lay not in the direct transfer of power into the hands of workers on the factory floor but the administration of industry by a ‘ workers ’ state' in their interests . |
| 20 | Public confidence in the administration of justice by police and courts is half-collapsed , and it has to be rebuilt . |
| 21 | The administration of justice by such bodies is a public function even when all the parties to the action are non-governmental . |
| 22 | On those facts C would , in my opinion , be committing a contempt of court , because he would be knowingly impeding or interfering with the administration of justice by the court in the action between A and B. ’ |
| 23 | Those who disrupt proceedings or undermine public confidence in the administration of justice by scandalising the judiciary are also liable to be dealt with for contempt of court . |
| 24 | The Zollverein had been a submit or the German Federation ( which included Austria ) and the North German Federation , founded after the defeat of Austria by Prussia at Königgrätz in 1866 , was itself a subunit of the Zollverein , as it did not include the southern states ( Bavaria , Württemberg ) . |
| 25 | Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue . |
| 26 | The great days of the Macedonian Church culminated in the creation of the patriarchate of Ohrid in 976 , during the reign of Tsar Samuel ( Samuilo ) , but the whole picture changed after the defeat of Samuel by the Byzantine emperor , Basil II , in 1014 . |
| 27 | Recommendation of reforms by ruling party |
| 28 | Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility . |
| 29 | Indeed , the police make use of the Doppler effect to measure the speed of cars by measuring the frequency of pulses of radio waves reflected off them . |
| 30 | The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities , and documents the principal barriers to entry . |