Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The models describe the way people learn by experience in terms of how they are affected by the sequence of sums of money received as rewards for correct decisions or lost as penalty for errors . |
| 2 | Should rainforests be used for hamburgers ? — trees destroyed for cattle ranches — is the question asked by Takeaway , which combines music , dance and action in a show devised by nine- to 20-year-olds of Cambridgeshire . |
| 3 | The numerous young of mammals such as rabbits and cats can even identify the particular nipple allocated to each and find it by smell within seconds of their mother returning . |
| 4 | These , perhaps by building on parts of Aristotle , will be able to advance knowledge even further than he did . |
| 5 | As the Roman polymath Pietro della Valle observed in 1640 madrigals were now not often sung , ‘ nor is there occasion to sing them , since people prefer to hear singing freely by heart with instruments in the hand rather than to watch four or five companions singing with book in hand at a table like schoolboys ( che ha troppo del scolaresco e dello studio ) ’ . |
| 6 | We therefore need a new table which shows the three-way table of age by income by attitudes to the law ( figure 13.5 ) ; the relationships can not be inferred from inspection of figures 13.2 , 13.3 and 13.4 alone . |
| 7 | I would like to go further , however , and suggest that the best outcome would be if discretion over monetary policy were removed altogether from the hands of the Treasury and the Bank of England and legislated by Parliament in terms of a monetary rule . |
| 8 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 9 | Some contracts provide instead for performance without delivery , generally by payment of differences by reference to a published price or index . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Additionally , an increasing proportion of research funding is obtained from the private sector , either by sponsorship of particular projects which are generally goal-oriented , or by support for Departments with a proven track record for the application of research findings , or the generation of potentially economically exploitable ideas . |
| 12 | Acclimation is the non-heritable modification of characters caused by exposure of organisms to environmental changes . |
| 13 | The commander , although partially blinded by blood from cuts on his head , made his way to the main cabin door , which he opened , and all occupants were evacuated . |
| 14 | 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 . ) . |
| 15 | As couples pass decennial milestones in their conjugal lives the occasions are marked , if not always in material form , by recognition in terms of the hierarchy of precious substances commonly accepted in western society — silver , ruby , gold and diamond . |
| 16 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 17 | thirty two 's the distance divided by the speed which is eight , thirty two divided by eight is four this is the rule for working out a journey time distance in miles divided by speed in miles per hour gives you the time in hours . |
| 18 | Why now should they be prepared to recognise as Messiah precisely the imperial authority which , three centuries before , had crucified Jesus — and which continued to practise execution by crucifixion on rebels against the State ? |
| 19 | I stress that money relates to new equity and is not directly linked to any specific plans by Stagecoach for bids for SBG companies . |
| 20 | ‘ Many clients try to overcome their difficulties by recourse to books on sexual technique . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By analogy with examples of repressors from other dimeric transcription factor families ( 26 , 49 ) one likely possibility is that ICR can heterodimerise with CREB through the leucine zipper . |
| 23 | The hydrocarbon prospects of the Variscan thrust belt in southern England can be examined from two angles : by analogy with results in the better explored lateral equivalents of the belt on the Continent and more particularly in eastern North America , and by an attempt to reconstruct the geometry and burial history of the pre-Permian rocks in the area of interest from the limited local clues available . |
| 24 | As many western states simultaneously suffered sharp increases in levels of unemployment and prices , concern grew over the growing costs of government welfare programmes , many of which were linked by statute to changes in price levels . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Crystals were grown at 4°C in microbridges by equilibration against reservoirs of 18% PEG 4000 , 50mM Tris , pH8.0 , starting from sitting drops composed of 4μl of protein at 17mgml in 25mM Tris , 140mM NaCl , pH7.4 , and 2μl reservoir . |
| 29 | The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers . |
| 30 | Here and there villages under strict seignorial control sat side by side with communities of free peasants . |