Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such oils may help to lower the risks of heart disease by reducing the stickiness of blood that can lead to a heart attack . |
| 2 | ‘ new Invention of Raiseing of Water and occasioning Motion to all sorts of Mill Work by the Impellent Force of Fire , which will be of great Use and Advantage for Drayning Mines , Serveing Towns with water , and for the working of all Sorts of Mills where they have not the benefit of Water nor Constant Windes ’ . |
| 3 | Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann ( Pan , £2.99 ) |
| 4 | Comme des Garçons shirts , suits by Paris-based Nino Cerruti and the simple strengths of silk shirts by Equipment are among the other French designs being stocked by Woodhouse this season . |
| 5 | Currently CML offers a choice of three books of garment patterns by designer Teresa Schiff and two collections of artwork for electronics and intarsia work with a proportion of designs suitable for punchcard machines . |
| 6 | ( It is possible to learn about aspects of sentence structure by studying linguistics , specifically the part of linguistics called SYNTAX . ) |
| 7 | In the LP days Altarus released the first-ever recordings of piano music by John Foulds , thus casting overdue light on a substantial but hitherto shadowy figure ( I understand this recording is scheduled for re-issue — keep an eye open for it : the music is wonderful ) . |
| 8 | In November of 1968 , he responded to the demands of Derry Catholics by proposing that the Londonderry City Corporation ( which since partition had been gerrymandered so that the Protestant minority retained control ) be replaced by a nominated body , that housing allocation be removed from political control to be administered on a fair ‘ points for needs ’ system , and that the Special Powers Act be re-examined . |
| 9 | The move follows three months of protest actions by environmental groups after repeated reports that large consignments of potentially-dangerous wastes were planned to be exported to the country for disposal from France and the United States . |
| 10 | Out of 859 transgressions of pollution laws by 20 companies between 1985 and 1990 , only 1 per cent were prosecuted . |
| 11 | Take for example , the accounts of defence spending by the British Government as shown in Fig. 8.1 . |
| 12 | I discovered the skills of change masters by researching hundreds of managers across more than a half-dozen industries . |
| 13 | As to the evaluation of their individual skills of pupil management by members of the Senior Management Team , the Head of Department commented , ‘ we have never known them as teachers … but we do see them conducting assemblies ’ . |
| 14 | When you are on to more advanced machine knitting and attempt some intarsia knitting , that is , knitting blocks and strips of colour adjacent without floats at the back , by means of an intarsia carriage , you will be able to make coloured cable strips without knitting the contrast separately simply by knitting strips of colour side by side and cable crossing them . |
| 15 | Further details about the seminar and copies of Risk Management by Bank Managers are available from The Department of Financial Services , . |
| 16 | The pair have gone against the wishes of management staff by opting for High Wycombe in preference to a ‘ compulsory ’ Commonwealth Games get-together at Inverclyde Centre , Largs . |
| 17 | The need for evaluation was realized by librarians , and obviously some evaluation was taking place , but few systematic attempts to evaluate programmes of user instruction by different methods had been made . |
| 18 | In the United States the State of California 's Air Resources Board announced new regulations for petrol on Nov. 24 , requiring a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants by March 1996 . |
| 19 | It was expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 20 | It is expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 21 | Installing and operating enough flue gas de-sulphurization plants to cut UK power station emissions of sulphur dioxide by 50 per cent would add 6 per cent to UK electricity prices . |
| 22 | The Finnish oil industry has reduced emissions of sulphur dioxide by 80 per cent in the past 12 years . |
| 23 | Using biodiesel , or rapeseed methyl ester , in place of 400,000 tonnes of fossil fuel a year would reduce Germany 's total emissions of greenhouse gases by between 0.5 and 0.7 per cent . |
| 24 | The Clinton administration has missed its self-imposed deadline of mid-August for presenting detailed proposals on how to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by the turn of the century . |
| 25 | Gore , Tim Wirth of Colorado , and 46 other senators proposed a new law last week that would cut US emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 per cent in 15 years . |
| 26 | Its main proposals were ( i ) a 20 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide by the year 2000 , with a 40 per cent cut by 2010 ; ( ii ) a ban on offshore oil drilling in state waters ; ( iii ) a halt to logging in the ancient redwood forests ; ( iv ) a requirement that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development ; and ( v ) a ban on all pesticides with the potential to cause cancer or to damage a developing foetus . |
| 27 | As a result , the government 's own modest target of stabilizing the emissions of carbon dioxide by the year 2005 may not be met . |
| 28 | The report 's assumptions are based on one of the " business as usual " scenarios from the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : a doubling of the world population , an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide by 180 per cent and a global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees centigrade by the end of the next century [ see ED 57 , 59/60 ] . |
| 29 | This must be one of the most ingenious cases of tool use by any animal . |
| 30 | Besides groups of bronze statuettes by Degas and Henry Moore , notable works include Miró 's ‘ Tëte ’ ( 1974 ) , ‘ Oedipus II ’ ( 1962 ) , a stone and bronze sculpture by William Turnbull , Kim Lim 's ‘ River-Stone ’ , a new standing block of Calacatta Siena marble , delicately decorated with incisions , a vast wall sculpture ( 1987 ) created by Mimmo Paladino from gold and encaustic and bronze , and Julian Schnabel 's ‘ Jacqueline ’ , a bronze bust of his former wife mounted on a steel platform and shown at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1987 . |