Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A most important consideration in laser techniques is the sensitivity of detection , which depends on the probability ( the ‘ cross section ’ ) for absorption of photons by atoms . |
| 2 | In Tuzla , UN aid workers were preparing to evacuate Serb civilians as part of attempts by the Unprofor commander in Bosnia , French General Philippe Morillon , to restart aid convoys . |
| 3 | Unpublished figures compiled as part of research by the Department of the Environment reveal that acid rain is causing more extensive damage in Britain than previous estimates had suggested . |
| 4 | In general , businesses prefer to avoid the courts , litigation ( and even lawyers ) so far as possible , and the terms may therefore make provision for settlement of disputes by arbitration , or by one of the other systems of alternative dispute resolution , such as conciliation , which are now available . |
| 5 | Students accepted on to the Diploma in Social Work will be considered for payment of fees by the Department of Health and Social Services only if they are allocated a quota place by the University . |
| 6 | Mr. Utley submits on behalf of the board that , on the true construction of section 18(1) , power to make an order for payment of costs by the board is only exercisable in favour of a person who is an unassisted party at the time when the relevant proceedings are finally decided , i.e. who is not then receiving legal aid . |
| 7 | However , this is scant comfort as it simply brings the dates for payment of tax by the self employed such as partners on to a more current basis similar to that applicable to companies and PAYE employees . |
| 8 | In theory the first step in the procedure is a formal application for payment of arrears by either the landlord or someone acting as an agent . |
| 9 | As the law stands , he of course has no separate claim , following the abolition of claims for loss of services by s2 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 . |
| 10 | Payments made ex gratia or as compensation for loss of office by the vendor of the business will not usually be deductible by the vendor because they are made in connection with the discontinuance of the trade and not for the purpose of enabling the company to carry on its trade . |
| 11 | He was replaced as mayor of Shanghai by his deputy Huang Ju . |
| 12 | There are even stories — apocryphal , perhaps — that her children 's toys are washed after visits from their little friends for fear of contamination by the common horde . |
| 13 | This conclusion directly contradicts many assertions in the literature ( Glue , 1971 ; Avery , 1977 ; Mayhew , 1977 ) that there is no loss of bone during digestion of prey by barn owls . |
| 14 | Never has Carrick been more lost for words than when he was approached in the Headingley committee-room after close of play by Reg Kirk , a former Yorkshire chairman . |
| 15 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 16 | The distinction between discovery of causes by resolution and demonstration of the effects of certain causes by composition , was coupled with another , that between what is ‘ more known to us ’ and what is ‘ more known to nature ’ . |
| 17 | Hailes is aware of the potential for exploitation of SustainAbility by industrialists who would like to present themselves as green without changing fundamentals : ‘ It is something we need to guard against . |
| 18 | Acting President Shehabuddin Ahmed opened the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) on April 5 [ see p. 38102 for formation of government by Bangladesh Nationalist Party — BNP — in mid-March ] . |
| 19 | ROGER MILLWARD last night resigned as coach of Halifax by mutual agreement with the club . |
| 20 | In addition , to determine the dietary effects on the cytolytic potency of the intestinal contents , luminal lytic activity was measured as lysis of erythrocytes by faecal water . |
| 21 | Ambrose identifies an investment route in which buildings ( shorthand for modification of land by action ) are acquired in order to yield a stream of income . |
| 22 | For what we need is not only the idea of non-arbitrariness but the idea of error and the ( logical ) possibility of correction of error by third persons . |
| 23 | Treatment for all these patients was standardised and consisted of correction of dehydration by the administration of World Health Organisation glucose oral rehydration solution supplemented by parenteral fluids where necessary . |
| 24 | notification of change of rate by phone . |
| 25 | The field is inclined at about 10.8° from the spin axis of Jupiter , and the centre of the field is offset from the centre of mass of Jupiter by about 0.10 R J , mainly along the equatorial plane . |
| 26 | Whereas the problem of payment of compensation by local authorities to a developer refused planning consent had always proved a great obstacle to effective control , the new situation was that where land was developed , the increase in its value resulting from the grant of planning permission was secured for the community by the imposition of a development charge ( equivalent to 100 per cent of the increase in value ) , to be assessed and collected by a Central Land Board . |
| 27 | The denial of the importance of freedom of speech by the Chief Justice in Duncan v. Jones suggests that it is open to the constable to take the surest means to prevent a breach of the peace , and can take whatever steps he chooses . |
| 28 | The regulations also give details of how the historic rights of inspection of accounts by the public , should be administered . |
| 29 | The notion of the social division of labour as employed by these writers will , however , be reconstructed below under the name of division of labour by strata . |
| 30 | The U-boat activity and the occupation of part of France by the enemy were responsible for the food shortages , which sent prices soaring . |