Example sentences of "for [noun] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
| 2 | The energy release of the early to mid-thirties is reinforced by the expectations of further children , by demands for possessions and by promises of more autonomy , power , recognition and money from the employer . |
| 3 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 4 | I am sure that the hon. and learned Gentleman knows the considerable steps that have been taken by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and by the Minister of State for the Armed Forces to deal with the aftermath of that tragic incident . |
| 5 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
| 6 | He set barns on fire , was up before the magistrates for theft and by the time he was thirteen he was stealing cars . |
| 7 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 8 | As I understood the submission , the Attorney-General was not contending that the use of Parliamentary material by the courts for the purposes of construction would constitute an ‘ impeachment ’ of freedom of speech since impeachment is limited to cases where a Member of Parliament is sought to be made liable , either in criminal or civil proceeding , for what he has said in Parliament , e.g. , by criminal prosecution , by action for libel or by seeking to prove malice on the basis of such words . |
| 9 | The pace of colonial emancipation would , in future , be governed more by the dependent peoples ’ view of their readiness for independence than by British administrators ’ judgement of their fitness to stand on their own feet . |
| 10 | That question has been answered very fully by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and by other Ministers , and there is nothing that I want to add . |
| 11 | If so , it is deplorable because I should prefer the remit to be allocated , as it were , by the Secretary of State for Scotland or by the Minister . |
| 12 | Growth by acquisition may take many forms : the purchase of a publicly held company 's shares by a recommended offer or by contested takeover bid , or the acquisition of shares or business assets by private agreement ( in either case for cash or by way of share exchange ) ; merger through the medium of a holding company which acquires the merging companies or their assets ; and , in France and certain other member states , merger by ‘ fusion ’ whereby a company loses its identity and is absorbed , with its assets and liabilities , into the new concern . |
| 13 | Our ties with them still matter , though they have been weakened by Australasia 's dependence on the United States for security and by our entry into the EEC . |
| 14 | The text of the work had to be submitted to Vienna for approval and by 24 August it had still not arrived for Mozart to set ( the wedding was to take place in October ) . |
| 15 | From the Communist viewpoint their campaign had been justified by the vote of 592,000 for affiliation and by the importance which it had given the Party in the eyes of militant Labour Party members . |
| 16 | In the Duma elections of 1912 the Bolsheviks won six of the nine curias reserved for workers and by 1914 the Mensheviks had lost control of the trade unions and social insurance councils in the Moscow and St Petersburg regions to their more radical rivals . |
| 17 | But whether or not I am right about a Niemecz on paper 60 rpm for the machine 's flywheels , the tempo relationships of the pieces on all three machines ' barrels are a constant and it is interesting to see that the tempo range for pieces either minuet-like in character or specifically called minuets ( in available manuscripts or because of the music 's original sources ) roughly corresponds to the ranges of minuet tempos metronomized by Hummel and Czerny for Mozart and by Czerny for Haydn . |
| 18 | Clause 5 was commented on by the hon. Member for Sedgefield and by my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney ( Mr. Porter ) . |
| 19 | In November 1985 North shipped out of America two Boeing 707-loads of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles , ostensibly for Israel although by now the pretence was wearing thin and they were simply transferred to Israeli cargo aircraft and flown straight on to Iran . |
| 20 | The contours of the political system can not be seen as something external to the mass media , something on which they have an ‘ impact ’ , since they play a part in its determination by , for instance , giving meanings to events , by setting the agenda for debate and by shaping the political climate . |
| 21 | As has been noted before , he followed the Beowulf -poet in being very loath to use the word ‘ heathen ’ , reserving it twice for Denethor and by implication the Black Númenoreans . |
| 22 | However , other studies , for example that by Masulis , have cast doubt on the universality of the results of Modigliani and Miller . |
| 23 | The police called for reinforcements but by then the workmen knew they were outnumbered and decided enough was enough . |
| 24 | But the effort proved exhausting for Egypt and by 1875 the country was heading for bankruptcy . |
| 25 | If you 've undertaken improvements which include replacement of soft furnishings — general decorations it is best to check with your local tax office to ensure you are eligible for relief as by themselves , these items do not normally qualify . |
| 26 | Bands in the digests were assigned by comparison with Maxam-Gilbert dimethylsulphate-piperidine markers specific for guanine or by comparison with previously published cleavage data . |
| 27 | Severity of disease was assessed by calculating percentage of predicted weight for height and by a standard symptom questionnaire . |
| 28 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 29 | Grade differences in long absences were reduced by 11% for men and by 36% for women after adjustment . |
| 30 | Far more important was the growth in manufacturing employment which increased overall by 31% or more than 1700 jobs for men and by 1600 jobs or 54% , for women between 1951 and 1966 . |