Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] of [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justification is that a respondent should not be put at further risk of costs by virtue of the Revenue 's wish to have final authority on some aspect of taxation law , which will inevitably be of general application . |
| 2 | Evidence to support this conclusion comes from a further set of studies by Honey and Hall ( 1989b ) , who examined the effects of compound pre-exposure in the conditioned suppression paradigm using two auditory stimuli , a tone and a click . |
| 3 | Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking . |
| 4 | Such a policy would have to be in conjunction with better policing of regions by park patrols and resident ecologists . |
| 5 | In Ireland she heartened the embryonic movement for the higher education of women by personally securing the involvement in it of the Roman Catholic convent-school nuns . |
| 6 | We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding . |
| 7 | For example , in the MISLIP project teachers in different subjects ( biology , history , English ) found that the microcomputer helped pupils to plan projects better and improved the motivation of pupils ; while the school librarian at Bankhead Academy pointed to the use of a wider range of resources by pupils in the school library . |
| 8 | to promote greater accountability of schools by requiring them to report on their practice to their governing bodies and to the LEA ; to promote the improvement of educational practice by requiring schools to undertake a review of their activities . |
| 9 | This fall in pregnancy rate has been explained by the greater use of contraceptives by teenagers , particularly those over sixteen . |
| 10 | This type of analysis forces a recognition of a greater diversity of structures by which history may be written and understood . |
| 11 | Swedish employers believed that the greater coordination of negotiations by means of central bargaining could reduce the incidence of industrial conflict . |
| 12 | This failure to find any effect of presenting the S2 during pre-exposure confirms the findings of an earlier set of experiments by Westbrook et al . |