Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The event is paid for each year by donations from businesses , individuals and organisations , with the motorists giving up their time to drive the children to and from Southport . |
| 2 | One other element however was essential to provide the dynamic for righteous action by evangelicals ; certainty of God 's government was combined with conviction of free human will and agency . |
| 3 | Definition : Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period . |
| 4 | Others were purchased cheaply for agricultural use by villagers who were willing to do without the sale vouchers which were sometimes required by the government . |
| 5 | Imagine that a child has expressed some meaning with an innovative term , a , and that this meaning is identical to the one expressed by term b , the term conventionally used for that meaning by adults — e.g. , plant-man versus gardener . |
| 6 | To what extent will a more competitive European sector give opportunity for further expansion by competitors outside the Community ? |
| 7 | This causes a severe response in the fish with inflammation and mucus production causing the decay of tissue and thus opens pathways for further infection by bacteria , usually myxobacteria . |
| 8 | He called for tougher action by police on motorists who illegally park in and around existing bus stops . |
| 9 | This is a contemporary , well validated , 22 item self report scale developed for repeated use by patients with cancer . |
| 10 | Journalists who observe what they regard as improper behaviour by judges or lawyers could provide information to the Lord Chancellor 's Department without running any risk of a libel action . |
| 11 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 12 | Worn as an amulet they even warded off the evil eye and , in a more generalised form , are still carried for this purpose by Italians today . |
| 13 | On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 14 | And , in the 67th minute , again after good work by Saints ' forwards , a clever combination of passes between skipper Shane Cooper and scrum-half Jonathan Griffiths put centre Garry Connolly over . |
| 15 | This account is clearly an attempt to develop an objective theory of how society functions , and it delimits the scope for autonomous action by individuals . |
| 16 | The route has been constructed for joint use by cyclists and pedestrians , although it will occasionally be used by motor vehicles for maintenance or emergency purposes . |
| 17 | The route has been constructed for joint use by cyclists and pedestrians , although it will occasionally be used by motor vehicles for maintenance or emergency purposes . |
| 18 | Clearly , examinations , the way they are perceived , oriented to and drawn upon as a source of professional justification by teachers , are but one source of influence on the continuing pervasiveness of transmission styles of teaching in the school system . |
| 19 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 20 | The price of wheat is frequently used as a measure of degrees of economic hardship by historians of this period ; not every family , it is true , was totally dependent upon wheaten bread , but the steep upward price curve which was to reach an undreamt-of high of 113s. 10d. per quarter of wheat in 1800 must be a fairly accurate barometer of the plight of the poor , especially in the 1790s . |
| 21 | The Project aims to establish the forms and extent of political participation by women in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | The coming of the Republic was not a ‘ bourgeois revolution ’ involving the seizure of political power by representatives of a ‘ progressive ’ , entrepreneurial middle class . |
| 23 | The active part is played by a public corporation , the National Coal Board , which carries on the vast bulk of the exploitation itself whilst licensing a minute amount of private enterprise by others . |
| 24 | Many were the results of private enterprise by barons concerned with their own defence and their own private wars . |
| 25 | Staff Side chairman Paul Forster has expressed union concern at the decision ‘ to break the agreements with staff on pay and conditions in the face of strong opposition by employees . ’ |
| 26 | But there is not much other evidence of dishonest dealing by judges in Chancery at this time . |
| 27 | All that is needed is a demand from library users and an understanding of that demand by librarians . |
| 28 | The fear of direct influence by advertisers on programme content was one of the main planks in the opposition to ITV . |
| 29 | By contrast , radical elite theory attacks pluralism ( and democratic elitism as well ) for disguising the degree to which existing arrangements do not implement feasible ideals of direct control by citizens over decisions affecting their lives . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |