Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trigger for this new genre of ‘ science mysticism ’ has been the extraordinary success of Stephen Hawking 's best-seller A Brief History of Time — which has sold three million copies and forms the basis of a forthcoming documentary about Hawking by film producer Stephen Spielberg — aided by the popular surreal case studies by psychiatrist Oliver Sacks . |
| 2 | Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm |
| 3 | Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing , which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac . |
| 4 | The means of escaping poverty are not worth pursuing by a woman who genuinely wishes to be happy . |
| 5 | Convulvulus cneorum and Stachys olympica ‘ silver carpet ’ have the added advantage of soft , velvety leaves , ideal for stroking by young hands discovering texture . |
| 6 | Both Redworth Hall , Heighington , and Hallgarth Hotel , Coatham Mundeville , have got the go-ahead for their proposed courses , while Romanby golf course , Northallerton , will be opening their 12bay driving range at the end of the month with an 18-hold , 6,660-yard course due for completing by 1994 . |
| 7 | Nurses must be aware of both the temperature at which clothes are processed , the category of soiling and the safe packing for handling by porters and staff en route . |
| 8 | If the deceased has died in hospital , the bodybag should have been provided but the other items will be required for handling by funeral operatives . |
| 9 | In the course of the project just under half the parish Memoirs deposited in the Royal Irish Academy are to be prepared for indexing by computer so that these will be available in a printed out form from the microcomputer . |
| 10 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 11 | IN THE Collins Gem series appear two new titles : Food for Freezing by Juliet Brigstocke and Food for Microwaving by Lorna Rhodes . |
| 12 | In the Cambridge Arts Dick Whittington , La Donn' E Mobile was pressed into service for a song about cooking by Graham James as Sarah the Cook , a delightful dame smack in the Dan Leno tradition . |
| 13 | I 'm all for sticking by players through bad patches but my patience is running out . |
| 14 | Many of the noxious or offensive gases , at present listed in s.27(1) of the 1906 Act as amended by Regulation 4 , Schedule 2 of 1983 , S.I . |
| 15 | Section 38 of the 1954 Act as amended by s 5 of the Law of Property Act , 1969 provides for application to the court for the court 's approval to an agreement excluding the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 16 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 17 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
| 18 | The applicants in the main proceedings stated in that connection that there were ‘ traditional communities ’ of fishermen resident in the United Kingdom which there might arguably be a case for protecting by a requirement relating to the residence of the crew or ‘ operators ’ of fishing vessels . |
| 19 | A spokeswoman said yesterday that the exact timescales depended on finding suitable alternative properties for the current occupiers of the builders ' yard , but the development is expected to be open for trading by the summer of next year . |
| 20 | The negotiations , under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe , aim to reach agreement on a new " sulphur protocol " , due to be ready for signing by the end of the year . |
| 21 | The first four sections of Chapter II of Part VII replace , with amendments , the concessions to smaller companies originally afforded by the 1981 Act as permitted by the Fourth Company Law Directive . |
| 22 | Highland cut its own output of new whisky for blending by a quarter . |
| 23 | Be aware that bankside vegetation is being used for nesting by moorhens , swans and coots and that sandy banks will be the home for sand martins arriving back from Africa . |
| 24 | A left hemisphere advantage for matching by name ( Cohen , 1972 ) would be expected to lead to a RVF superiority on a memory search for letter names . |
| 25 | We are looking for understanding by listening to something or someone . |
| 26 | He predicted the economy will start to grow again next year by one per cent , after contracting by one per cent this year — bringing us back to 1991 levels by 1993 . |
| 27 | After unloading by evaporation the crust rose and shoreline features are now elevated up to 64 m above the present water level . |
| 28 | The Royal Society had by the 1870s become an academy ; its elections were an accolade , bestowed after agonizing by a committee . |
| 29 | Peregrines , whose numbers have recovered in recent years after poisoning by pesticides used in the 1960s caused a slump in the population , are given special protection by the Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 30 | the separate insertion of a single page into a book either during or after binding by pasting one edge . |