Example sentences of "by [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er what do you mean by change of circumstances ? |
| 2 | The protection for the person called upon to produce documents lies , thus , not in a limitation by category of documents ( ‘ reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge ’ ) but in the fact that the applicant must satisfy the court that , after balancing all the relevant factors , there is a proper case for such an order to be made . |
| 3 | Statistical information , principally loan counts , is analysed by category of borrowers and by department ( to show the characteristics of active readership ) and by subject ( for purposes of fund allocation ) . |
| 4 | Moreover , under the optimality theory the outcome does not depend on patterns of pleiotropy , and could in theory be reached by fixation of alleles each with an effect on fitness at only one age . |
| 5 | The pump wagon is crewed by stand of Snotlings . |
| 6 | This chapter first appeared as an article in Current Perspectives in Social Theory , Volume 8 , pages 197–213 , 1987 , and is reproduced by permission of JAI Press Inc , USA . |
| 7 | A tall , narrow stone like the Attic ones , of the early fifth century , was found at Orchomenos in Boeotia and is signed by Alxenor of Naxos . |
| 8 | Some contracts provide instead for performance without delivery , generally by payment of differences by reference to a published price or index . |
| 9 | In many cases it satisfies the complainants — and , where it is accompanied by payment of costs , it will satisfy their lawyers as well . |
| 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 | In the last case , more complex patterns of use may have been discouraged by fragmentation of networks and ticketing systems . |
| 12 | Acclimation is the non-heritable modification of characters caused by exposure of organisms to environmental changes . |
| 13 | 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 . ) . |
| 14 | More generally , our identification of a likely mechanism for an HLA-disease association by characterization of peptides bound to the relevant HLA type and screening of candidate antigens for epitopes congruent with a derived motif , should encourage similar approaches to other disease associations . |
| 15 | Other demand is made purely by force of circumstances ( eg after a car crash ) . |
| 16 | Ware was a strict Palladian by upbringing but a stylistic schizoid by force of circumstances . |
| 17 | In the early stages of the war , most of Free France 's fighting , by force of circumstances , had been against other Frenchmen — in Africa , the Middle East , and elsewhere . |
| 18 | As Johnston said , it was bad luck on Dave Millard who had begun brilliantly and who , though eventually submerged by force of circumstances , had still shown Johnston a player he evidently never saw in Australia . |
| 19 | We have witnessed a further attempt on the part of the Fascist element in Spain to supersede the democratically elected Government of the People of Spain by force of arms . |
| 20 | To gain the upper hand Charles had to repeatedly invade and conquer the four Saxon regions ; he used drastic techniques of extermination and punishment ; he transplanted entire tribes forcibly to weaken any sense of identity and revolution ; he built towns , churches and castles wherever possible , and supported large numbers of Christian missionaries to the pagans by force of arms . |
| 21 | Charlemagne was a charismatic man who held his widespread and disparate peoples together as much by force of personality as by force of arms . |
| 22 | But two men prevented this , one indirectly , the other by force of arms : Rodrigo del Bivar and the Almoravid chieftain , Yusuf ibn Teshufin . |
| 23 | He replied that he held his power in Italy by the same right of conquest established by Charlemagne and Otto , he had come , he said , ‘ not to receive as a suppliant the transient favours of an unruly people , but as a prince resolved to claim , if necessary by force of arms , the inheritance of his forebears ’ . |
| 24 | Indirect Rule dramatized , sanctified , and institutionalized the belief that backward races should and could be ruled by force of character rather than by force of arms . |
| 25 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 26 | He accuses her of being a stooge of the EGP , the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ; he say she is a front for this ‘ hard-line rebel group ’ which is ‘ bent on achieving communist revolution by force of arms ’ . |
| 27 | The issue had been settled by force of arms . |
| 28 | And arrowheads and other debris excavated from the ruins indicate that Qumran , too , opposed the Romans by force of arms . |
| 29 | Having gained a substantial following in Judaea , he undertook to occupy Jerusalem by force of arms and drive the Romans from the Holy Land . |
| 30 | But we 'll not betray them — we 'll make Ireland free , by force of arms if need be ! " |