Example sentences of "by [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kerfoot said this week that in 1988 one of his oil suppliers on the Rhine had been keen to send raw material to Britain by rail instead of road because of pressure from the German Government . |
| 2 | The DSS has a statutory duty to pay benefits of a given level approved by Parliament regardless of the level of sickness or unemployment that may arise in any one year . |
| 3 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 4 | In 1376 , following the Good Parliament , in which one of the oligarchs , the alderman Richard Lyons , had been impeached , a new system was introduced by electing the city council , by crafts instead of wards . |
| 5 | A recent study carried out by Management Today of the top 250 performing companies , highlights Rentokil at No. 46 . |
| 6 | The collections are dominated by seeds probably of the mustard and caper families , Zizyphus stones , grass grains , and seeds of leguminous plants ; the unidentified material consists of many examples of a few types . |
| 7 | For these reasons , and because it is so easy to change the screen size of a shot by zooming in or out without stopping for a cut , the zoom ( and the pan ) are often used by amateurs instead of a straight cut . |
| 8 | Much of this was pocketed by retailers instead of being passed on to customers . |
| 9 | By and large , planners were associated with incomers in that they wished to control the way things were done , viz to impose rules where there were none before and to replace the old social norms by fiat instead of the usual agreement between households . |
| 10 | Just carry on multiplying things by X instead of trying to jump to conclusions . |
| 11 | The former took the name of Shi'a ( which conveys the concept of a party of followers — in this case of Ali , whom the Shiites especially venerate , and by extension also of Husain ) and the latter that of Sunnis ( connoting the sunnah , the tradition relating the life-story and precepts of Muhammad , compiled from the Qur'an and the commentaries of the Prophet 's contemporaries . |
| 12 | THE Metropolitan Police are launching a recruitment campaign among blacks and Asians next year following criticism by MPs yesterday of low recruitment figures and a disturbingly high wastage rate among the ethnic minorities . |
| 13 | Taunton Cider , which is physically linked with the West Somerset Railway at Norton Fitzwarren , and Fitzgerald Lighting from Bodmin will now be sending their goods by road instead of rail . |
| 14 | Although built by Brush instead of Milnes , the bodies of these cars were almost identical to those of Corporation Nos. 46–55 . |
| 15 | The auditors also found Whitehall slow to adapt to new technology , and that millions was spent on correcting letters by hand instead of on word processors . |
| 16 | But a lot of the evidence which convicted the gang was found in rubbish left outside Lawless Cottage , collected by detectives instead of the bin men . |
| 17 | inform about society , thus continuing the induction of pupils which they are already experiencing into the tradition which is theirs by virtue either of birth or of taking up residence in a country . |
| 18 | By virtue both of the imperatives already identified , and their financial overtones , every decision taken will have budget implications , the onus of which can no longer be passed to the policies of the LEA , safely remote from the staff-room . |
| 19 | Nowadays these horizons have expanded to take in much of the world outside by virtue of changes in education , in transport and communications , and , as we shall see in the following chapter , by virtue also of changes in the social composition of village community itself . |
| 20 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary , where property has been stolen or obtained by fraud or other wrongful means , the title to that or any other property shall not be affected by reason only of the conviction of the offender . |
| 22 | It is provided , however , that if a person has a right to place animals on unfenced land , he is not to be regarded as in breach of a duty of care by reason only of his placing them there , so long as the land is in an area where fencing is not customary or is common land or a town or village green . |
| 23 | Such an agreement is not unenforceable by reason only of its being a conditional fee agreement . |
| 24 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 25 | The current legislation allows benefit to be backdated indefinitely by reason only of a mistake made or something done or omitted to be done by an officer of the DHSS . |
| 26 | ( a ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that a defence provided by s.56 ( diminished responsibility ) , 58 ( provocation ) or 59 ( use of excessive force ) applies ; or |
| 27 | ( b ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that , because of voluntary intoxication he is not aware that death may be caused or believes that an exemplary circumstance exists ; or |
| 28 | ( 4 ) Where a contact for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land satisfies the conditions of this section by reason only of the rectification of one or more documents in pursuance of an order of the court , the contract shall come into being , or be deemed to have come into being , at such time as may be specified in the order . |
| 29 | Women , though at one time excluded from most public functions , were never by reason merely of their sex in a substantially different position from men as regards criminal liability , property and contract , if we except the rule ( now nearly obsolete ) which prefers males to females in the succession to real estate on intestacy . |
| 30 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |