Example sentences of "' by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trafalgar House raised chief executive Eric Parker 's salary by 62.7 per cent to £480,000 and chairman Sir Nigel Broackes ' by 37.6 per cent to £300,000 . |
| 2 | Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative . |
| 3 | In the altar of St Anna 's Chapel ( 16 ) or chapel of the Nostic family , note the early Gothic panel from 1266 , originally from Trier Cathedral but given to St Vitus ' by the Nostic family . |
| 4 | The persecution of the bull cult in the later medieval period combined with the ruthless sack of the town in 1461 forced the closure of many of these smaller churches : St. Mary 's Bynwerk , St. Clement 's , St. Thomas ' , St. Andrew 's , St. Paul 's , St. Stephen 's , St. Michael 's Cornstall , All Saints ' by the Bridge and St. Peter 's all disappeared . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , Cowart ( 1969 , p. 223 ) suggested that welfare programmes are ‘ perceived as a ‘ gravy train ’ for low income Negroes ' by white southern politicians and as ‘ a promoter of illegitimacy ’ amongst them . |
| 6 | This result was interpreted in terms of meaningfulness ' by Matsumiya , Tagliasco , Lombroso and Goodglass ( 1972 ) who showed in a separate study that inter-hemispheric asymmetry was greatest when subjects had to understand each stimulus word , and minimal when they could ignore the semantic content . |
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| 8 | Tad Szulc discusses the problem of the Cuban government 's trials of Batista ’ war criminals ' by revolutionary justice : ’ … the issue — in the eyes of Fidel Castro and masses of Cubans — was that while the United States government had never protested against the killing and torture of thousands of the old regime 's opponents by the Batista police and soldiers ( and public opinion took hardly any notice ) , now that the victorious revolutionaries were punishing their opponents with executions and lengthy prison sentences Americans were indignant [ about the lack of Anglo-Saxon judicial guarantees ] ' ( 1986 , pp. 385–6 ) . |
| 9 | Demonstration experiments in which a polymer solution is shown to possess the ability to extend under tensile forces are described in " Elastic Liquids ' by Lodge 91964 ) . |