Example sentences of "by [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the hundreds of demonstrations by artists and craftspeople covering all art forms , this year The Artist has helped organise a very much larger Materials and Techniques section where you will be able to try out art materials , ask questions and buy products from many of the UK 's leading art materials ' manufacturers . |
| 2 | But just as the policy determinants of welfare are multiple , and sometimes unexpected , so individuals ' welfare is influenced by phenomena that have nothing to do with the activity of the state . |
| 3 | The Trust provides fact-sheets and support for anyone affected by toxoplasmosis and educates health professionals . |
| 4 | A spokesman from BICC was dismissive of the large choice of search firms available , considering that there were far too many ; once he had learned by experience and found good firms , he would stick to those he knew best , regardless of their size or type . |
| 5 | The Planning and Compensation Act outlines a system where appeals are more likely to be dealt with by courts than planning authorities . |
| 6 | At present however , service managers lack information about the nature of current practice , the demands made on welfare officers by courts and divorcing families , and the resource implications of these . |
| 7 | In Phillips v. Brooks ( 1919 K.B. ) a rogue called North entered a jeweller 's shop , selected some items including a ring and asked to pay by cheque and to take the ring with him . |
| 8 | In December 1988 Gorbachev took the United Nations by storm and wrongfooted the American administration , then impotent during the hand-over of power from Reagan to President-elect George Bush , by announcing a unilateral reduction of 10 per cent in Russia 's conventional forces . |
| 9 | It should not be supported by sticks or hooped frames to form ‘ tunnels ’ as movement in the wind may wear holes in it . |
| 10 | If a libel is extremely serious , to the extent that a court is prepared to hold that it can not be compensated by money and deserves to be punished as a crime , its publisher may be made the target of a prosecution . |
| 11 | Gower responded in his book ‘ Gower ’ by describing the England captain as driven by money and blasted former team manager Micky Stewart 's soccer-style approach . |
| 12 | Later he told a news conference that independent schools will be hit hard by recession and suffer a wave of closures . |
| 13 | Especially important , we agree , is the likelihood that governments pursuing policies of austerity will be forced by recession and rising unemployment to throw in the towel . |
| 14 | Plant and animal breeding programmes have utilised a crude form of genetic engineering by crossing or interbreeding related species in the anticipation that the offspring will contain preferred characteristics . |
| 15 | But she achieved whatever she did against a massive public distaste for modern art , a fact well documented by Arnold and set clearly in the context of international and national attitudes . |
| 16 | I am encouraged to have seen that submissions based on such discussion are increasingly made by counsel and entertained by the courts and your Lordships have in the present appeal benefited from counsel 's industry in this respect . |
| 17 | It 's a form of monologue , of course , and I could never stand before a learned judge and be cross-questioned by counsel and state upon oath all that that tree says to me . |
| 18 | In contrast the ISAs function predominantly by ideology and derive a unity through the dominance of ideology by the ruling class : |
| 19 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 20 | Repeated attempts to amend the Constitution in order to accommodate the Compact had been approved by referendum but had failed to achieve the requisite 75 per cent majority . |
| 21 | He invited them to decide by referendum whether to opt for autonomy , with full French support , or for independence outside the community . |
| 22 | The Constitutional Assembly , approved by referendum and elected in December [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ] , and so far with 73 members , began on Feb. 5 its five months of meetings intended to produce political and legal reforms and thus to rescue the country from endemic violence . |
| 23 | The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al . |
| 24 | However , this cyclostyled news-sheet was generally moderate in tone ; in fact , it was often used by Nyerere when trying to cool down the more militant of his followers . |
| 25 | Hence there is a role for government collective action to improve the efficiency of resource allocation by negotiating and enforcing regulations regarding the use of common goods . |
| 26 | The answer is that greater corporate profits may be made by releasing assets by sale of machinery , land and buildings , and by investing them in another sector ( e.g. offices ) , or by building or re-equipping another , substitute factory elsewhere . |
| 27 | And living organisms themselves constantly change their environment , altering its chemical composition by eating , breathing , excreting ; altering its geography by building and destroying ( this relatively obvious concept has been raised to almost metaphysical status by James Lovelock and his devotees as the grandiosely named Gaia hypothesis ) . |
| 28 | Artificial Intelligence is a new discipline that seeks to explain intelligent behaviour by building and testing models of cognitive processes in the form of computer programs . |
| 29 | The sewing 's fine as my machine 's controlled by foot but cutting out is hard . |
| 30 | Or , if you 're travelling by foot or want to be seen clubbing , Red or Dead has a range of shoes with luminous soles at £50 , from 61 Neal St , London WC2 ; Royal Exchange , Manchester ; 6 Slater St , Liverpool |