Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The only bright spot was provided by software and services , where turnover increased by 4.3% and 12.1% respectively . |
| 4 | Trace Computers Plc blames the fall in turnover for the six months to November 30 ( figures , see page five ) , on a planned reduction in the scale of its computer supplies business , where turnover fell by nearly £1m ; the company managed to shave £122,000 from its administrative and operating costs ; the original businesses of insurance broking systems , property management systems and bespoke software development have continued to prosper , the company says , and the Proteus distribution systems business , consolidated on its return to profits last year ; Trace Financial also made a small profit and there was interest in the BlueChip stockbroking product ; the group is still investing about £2m a year in research and development — with some contribution from its customers ; the Pink networking technology company had a disappointing half year , turning in a small loss after having made a profit last year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Where individuals referred by GPs were subsequently informally admitted or not admitted at all , in no case would the ASW have preferred compulsory admission . |
| 7 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 8 | She stared at the glass of the Tower , where reflections appeared by moments — Fand , Liban , Adam , Fincara . |
| 9 | Production in the industrial sector fell by 3.1 per cent , worst hit being the car industry where output fell by 23.4 per cent . |
| 10 | Strongest organic growth came on the Continent , where profits rose by 150 per cent in France and 70 per cent in West Germany . |
| 11 | Where bookings occur by an exchange of letters , the initial inquiry by the guest does not amount to an offer to contract , nor necessarily does the hotel 's reply to the guest stating the tariff and room availability . |
| 12 | Nights of fog and days of rain , cobbles and kerbs , and bagwash in a pram , land of the hard man and the wee hauf , the upper cottage flat and the fossil groves of tenements , where ships sailed by the end of the street , and the closes echoed with the cries of skelped weans and the rumble of passing trams . |
| 13 | Where standards followed by manufacturers are voluntary rather than mandatory such as British Standard , this is not within the defence anticipated here . |
| 14 | It was held in Chamberlain v IRC 25 TC 317 that where assets settled by X were invested in shares in a company controlled by the settlor , the whole of the capital of which was held by the trustees themselves , the income arising in the company did not arise from property comprised in the settlement within the meaning of TA 1988 , s672(1) . |
| 15 | where nurses pass by him . |
| 16 | Geoff Fear , Supervisor from Pest Control in Chester has succeeded where others failed by securing a significant price increase from a large bakery in Northwich . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own . |
| 18 | It is all very well for modern econometric historians to argue retrospectively that slave or serf agriculture was actually more profitable or even more efficient than agriculture manned by free labour . |
| 19 | It should be noted that the programme will have been more than 50% spent by then ( around £4m ) . |
| 20 | Leeds could n't immediately pay Fulham their share of the takings for the match at Elland Road on Christmas Day , so Fulham retaliated by withholding money from Leeds after the return match at Craven Cottage on Boxing Day . |
| 21 | The veteran climbers narrowly defeated by the 6,200-metre Jaonli in Kashmir two years ago , are setting off again this month , a little older and fitter than eve.r Sponsored by Saga magazine , the team includes Mike Banks ( 68 ) Joss Lynam ( 67 ) , Mike Westmacott , a 1953 Everest Vertan who is now 66 , Richard Brooke ( 64 ) and striplings Jim Milledge and Paddy O'Leary , 61 and 56 respectively . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 23 | the first arises where the general law imposes a stricter duty than rules made by a regulatory organisation . |
| 24 | The partial imputation shades into the split rate system , which treats distributed income in a more favourable tax manner than income retained by the corporation . |
| 25 | This was not totally without justification : there were signs of tension between Aung San and Than Tun supported by the Communists . |
| 26 | Include interests of groups of individuals and/or companies if known , even if less than 3% held by individual members of the group . ) |
| 27 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 28 | There is no evidence that books ordered from approval collections are any more successful than books ordered by other methods . |
| 29 | Equally , the figure is lower than figure derived by Hughes for her single chemistry thesis , where she found elements of the thesis research in five subsequent papers . |
| 30 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |