Example sentences of "by [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1500 works donated by artists from all over the world will be housed in the museum which will honour the memory of President Allende who was assassinated in 1973 . |
| 2 | Helped by calls on partly paid gilts sold last year , the Bank is ahead of the game this year . |
| 3 | Now , although there were no signs of any elephants , the shop was besieged by crowds of equally persistent villagers competing with each other to be served . |
| 4 | A guide prepared by LDC for environmentally responsible practice in site planning and construction for all developments . |
| 5 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 6 | The performances in Oxford itself of this summer 's season of theâtre de chambre will take place in the Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union , often used as a theatre , well-known to television viewers and famous as a training-ground for many of this country 's members of Parliament , including a number of Prime Ministers , as well as for the addresses there by statesmen from all over the world . |
| 7 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 8 | I remember two of them by heart after over eighty years . |
| 9 | Although actual imports have fallen from 337 million tonnes in 1980 to 246 million tonnes in 1983 due to lower domestic consumption , between 1983 and the year 2000 average yearly net oil imports will rise by 100% to over 400 million tonnes . |
| 10 | We then spent three days going by rail from there to Oban via Thurso and Kyle of Lochalsh - look at the map ! |
| 11 | The power of the sacrament is attested to not just by stories of miracles in which the devout see Christ himself present in the Host , but in terms of inward experience " wherof we haue knowynge onely by beleue with ynneforthe " [ ynneforthe : inwardly ] and the meditation ends with a prayer for the experience of the healing presence of Christ : Such cultivation of an inner experience of the reality of Christ 's being by means of affective meditation on his life is a discipline taken for granted in the writings of all the mystics to be discussed , despite their differences in emphasis . |
| 12 | With this diversity , extended distribution and mobility , came new forms and opportunities of artistic and cultural independence ; or , to put it more strictly , forms of direct dependence , within relatively monopolistic social and cultural reproduction , were modified and sometimes replaced by forms of more variable dependence on more diverse modes of such reproduction , and within this diversity there was some significant innovation . |
| 13 | There are a number of quite reasonable exceptions to the " open justice " principle , settled by Parliament after sometimes anxious debate . |
| 14 | Since it is axiomatic to the new classical macroeconomics that market economies are characterized by states of more or less continuous full employment , Keynes 's elasticities analysis is ruled out as irrelevant ex hypothesi . |
| 15 | The main attempt to tackle the issue of bombing , the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare , is an admirable and detailed interpretation of customary rules and general principles of the laws of war , but it was never adopted by states in legally binding form — partly because of the belief , widely held in the aftermath of the First World War that the important thing was to prevent war altogether , rather than to devise rules for how it might be conducted . |
| 16 | But if the delay is caused by vandalism by far one of the biggest causes in the North-East or terrorism , forget it . |
| 17 | In fourth-century-BC Athens it was possible to buy manuscripts reproduced by hand-copying at relatively low cost , and the scriptoria in which such copying was done — there is a reference in Pliny the Younger to an edition of a thousand copies — remained important through Roman to medieval times . |
| 18 | Great northern divers , having spent the winter singly in many of the Shetland voes , gather in parties and are joined by birds from further south . |
| 19 | The levadas have all been built by hand , in areas where access is impossible men and their picks being suspended by ropes from above . |
| 20 | Used carefully , however , over an extended period , Indian patronage could permit a politician to capitalise upon feelings of gratitude aroused by acts of seemingly disinterested friendship several years earlier , acts which would in fact be quietly brought to mind by a shrewd politician 's regular enquiries about the activities of his young friend in India . |
| 21 | This was done industry by industry at SIC Class level and separately for large and small companies . |
| 22 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 23 | He was then able to start taking fluids by mouth in gradually increasing amounts . |
| 24 | In 1972 there was a general agreement that major services , apart from housing , could not be provided economically and efficiently by units with less than 250,000 people . |
| 25 | As in many similar Romantic writings on the left of the political spectrum , the working class is considered authentic by virtue of precisely those attributes which have been forced upon it by oppression from above . |
| 26 | Not curdled , nor stained by influences from below . |
| 27 | Instead , the information descends into generality in a manner that can not be avoided by recourse to either word-frequency or syntactic information . |
| 28 | But this is almost impossible to do , even by recourse to highly contrived situations not encountered in the wild . |
| 29 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 30 | In addition to acting as local pilot to some of the remoter islands during our stay , there were trips by car to all the more interesting spots on shore such as the old village of Skara Brae , the Churchill Barrier and the Italian Chapel . |