Example sentences of "by [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report commissioned by the UK government on acid rain and nitrogen oxides has concluded that many ecologically sensitive parts of Britain , particularly the wet , upland areas , are in danger of being damaged by emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere . |
| 2 | A section of the show is devoted to portrait drawings by artists of members of their family or friends and includes drawings by Annibale Carracci of his father , G.B. Tiepolo of his son , Gustave Schinkel of his daughter and Lucian Freud of his daughter . |
| 3 | This is perhaps the result of a deliberately indifferent attitude by the composer , who says that the piece can be played by most instruments as a solo , or by groups of instruments as ensembles ; that the general tempo can be between = 42 and 132 , the duration between four and twelve minutes ; and that the ordering of different melodic strands can be quite haphazard . |
| 4 | He had taken a captured Italian Lancia lorry along on the trip , as he had heard that there was a roadhouse at Mersa Brega used by groups of officers for meetings . |
| 5 | Pages headed Handout are intended primarily for use when the course is being completed by groups of students under the guidance of an instructor or course leader . |
| 6 | The second is the introduction of group representation theory in which groups are represented ( via homomorphisms ) by groups of matrices with complex number entities . |
| 7 | The practical work of establishing comparability is undertaken by groups of experts from each member state . |
| 8 | Clearly irritated , Gorbachev and other senior officials watching the parade faced barracking by groups of protesters for more than 30 minutes before leaving the balcony of the Lenin Mausoleum . |
| 9 | The role of individuals is important because industrial behaviour is very strongly influenced by organized trade unions , and trade unions are led ( at all levels … ) by groups of individuals with considerable power , influence and discretion over the industrial relations strategies which they pursue … . |
| 10 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 11 | Current proposals for changes in family law , recent criticisms by courts of changes in practice and varying standards , and recent research by the Conciliation Project Unit for the Lord Chancellor 's Department all raise important questions about how these services should be provided . |
| 12 | Our discussion of the balance of payments in Section 7. i.1 showed that payments imbalances on the current account would need to be offset by transactions in assets and liabilities ( the capital account ) ; a deficit on the current account , as in the case of the USA ( and also the UK ) , is offset by inflows of funds in the form of short-term and long-term capital . |
| 13 | So , at least , is the story presented by Bernard of Angers in the Miracles of St Foy ( it is clear , however , from the subsequent narrative that , whatever the short-term effects of the thunderbolt , Garsinde 's claims were pursued again later by her husband . ) |
| 14 | Badly hit by £213m of losses on domestic mortgage guarantee insurance , it nearly trebled its pre-tax loss to £301m and saw the departure of chairman and chief executive Michael Butt — once considered heir apparent to BAT chairman Sir Patrick Sheehy . |
| 15 | Some contracts provide instead for performance without delivery , generally by payment of differences by reference to a published price or index . |
| 16 | The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively . |
| 17 | It teaches that the human body is traversed by flows of ch'i along lines known as ‘ meridians ’ . |
| 18 | Instead of a world of national economies linked mainly by trade , we have a world linked more closely by flows of funds across national frontiers . |
| 19 | Repeated attempts to fit a more appropriate sceptre as originally intended have been thwarted by generations of students with a keen sense of tradition . |
| 20 | With handles in the shape of a stork , enhanced by gold plating , they have been valued by generations of needleworkers for their very fine points , making them ideal for intricate sewing and embroidery work . |
| 21 | Acclimation is the non-heritable modification of characters caused by exposure of organisms to environmental changes . |
| 22 | This is followed on the afternoon of Shrove Tuesday by processions of individuals in fancy dress — adults and lots of children . |
| 23 | But the plan 's ‘ Check List of Action Required ’ in this regard ( HMSO , 1965 , p. 17 ) was hardly adequate to produce a rapid improvement , and in many cases the ‘ action ’ was deferred : ‘ studies will be made , industry by industry of ways of increasing exports ’ ; ‘ Plans will be made , industry by industry , to save imports ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 24 | A mountain of research has shown that the population of a species is commonly limited by shortages of resources in a density-dependent manner ; the larger the population the greater the shortage and the more marked the effects of starvation . |
| 25 | The Red Army had won control of eastern Europe by force of arms in early 1945 and only force of arms could drive them out . |
| 26 | In animal experiments , increased mucosal permeability could be prevented by depletion of granulocytes with antineutrophil serum , and ileal mucosal permeability increased after exposure to neutrophil derived oxidants . |
| 27 | The Government has vowed to outlaw the sale by touts of tickets outside grounds on the day of matches . |
| 28 | They had landed with the Anzacs at Gallipoli , when the battleships were deterred by fear of mines after HMS Irresistible and HMS Ocean were mined in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915 . |
| 29 | Muscle relaxation was inhibited by preincubation of cells with N G -monomethyl-L-orginine ( 100 µ m/l ) but not by preincubation with N G -monomethyl-D-orginine ( 100 µ m/l ) . |
| 30 | The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers . |