Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , barristers usually talk about cases by identifying themselves with their lay client . |
| 2 | Easy dribbling through defences by zigzagging , plus farcical free-kicks kill this sluggish overhead-view game . |
| 3 | By the middle years of the fifteenth century litigants in civil suits before the Parlement of Paris could send word that they would not appear in person because they were engaged in war for the public good ( ‘ in expedicione causa rei publice ’ ) or were being detained as prisoners by the enemy . |
| 4 | As for war policy , Spartan censorship and secrecy could not conceal the rivalries and back-biting : jealousy , phthonos , felt for Brasidas by the ‘ leading men ’ of Sparta caused him to be starved of supplies ( iv . |
| 5 | It was expected to be ready for operations by 1 May with a strength of two troops . |
| 6 | It must now be a matter of top priority for hauliers to take the best insurance advice available on the risks being run and the cover available for operations by road and sea to mainland Europe . |
| 7 | Published in connection with the 50th Anniversary of Hurn being opened for operations by the RAF in 1941 , the Author charts the events and aircraft that have used the Airport over the years . |
| 8 | In fact , the average distance covered during pursuits by cheetahs is only 183 yards . |
| 9 | Most holidays use scheduled services with Alitalia or Citalia Special Flights and offer the flexibility of flying into one airport , out from another with travel between cities by First Class rail . |
| 10 | To provide customisation LIFESPAN allows users to configure lifecycles for objects by defining a number of states , transitions between these states and actions upon entry into a state . |
| 11 | Process modelling allows users to configure lifecycles for objects by defining a number of states , transitions between states and actions upon entry of an object into a state . |
| 12 | Process modelling allows users to configure lifecycles for objects by defining a number of states , transitions between these states , and actions upon entry of an object into a state . |
| 13 | Many functionalists argue that this integration is based largely on ‘ value consensus ’ , that is on agreement about values by members of society . |
| 14 | Why , when animal teeth were available and were in fact used for necklaces by the simple process of perforating their roots , did men go to the trouble to carve beads from solid ivory ? |
| 15 | Provence is as he painted it , we use his images as icons by which to recognise certain things , the cypresses above all , the olives , some configurations of rock and vegetation , the line of the Alpilles , the plain of the Crau , the light itself . |
| 16 | A firm with experience in managing and marketing property — like , say , Citicorp — can produce better returns for shareholders by doing the final sales itself . |
| 17 | Best hoot of the lot was the gladiatorial look dreamt up for Spurs by Jimmy Jumble . |
| 18 | The Halifax lifted its interest rates for savers by 0.75 of a point . |
| 19 | The only excitement in her life now seemed to be the exchange of clothes for hats by Mrs Bretton-Fawcett . |
| 20 | This , in turn , contributed to the formation of a network called People in Communication ( PIC ) which works on policy issues and communication education : some of these activities are now supported as projects by WACC . |
| 21 | Statistical comparison was by one way analysis of variance followed by comparison between groups by Fisher 's least significant difference in all experiments . |
| 22 | Probability of relapse curves were computed by the Kaplan-Meier method , and were compared between groups by the long rank test . |
| 23 | Non-parametric data are expressed in terms of the median and lowest possible CI above 95% as calculated by the binomial based method , with comparison between groups by the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 24 | In London historians and critics are solicited for opinions by the auction houses , sometimes but not always accepting a fee ; commissions for articles are independent decisions by editors . |
| 25 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 26 | The basis of network planning is the representation of sequential relationship between activities by means of a network of lines and circles . |
| 27 | Indicating United States recognition of Iran 's regional importance , US President Bush told Arab journalists in Washington on March 9 that as a " big country " Iran " should not be forever treated as enemies by all of the countries in the region " . |
| 28 | The other margin is for notes by the person receiving the minutes after the meeting . |
| 29 | However , the coup was also in response to what leading factions within the army perceived as attempts by Chatichai to undermine their influence . |
| 30 | His initial steps were taken to foil what he interpreted as attempts by the superpowers or their proxies to bolster the bipolar order . |