Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This demand may be generated through a pre-agreed schedule of transmission times or by a specific design need or crisis . |
| 2 | In addition , a serious breach , or a breach of a term classified by the contract or by the general law as a condition , will allow the innocent party to terminate the contract . |
| 3 | In many cases there is a hefty bank and ditch marking the village boundary , but in others this may be marked only by a slight change in level or by the continuous line of the rear of the platforms . |
| 4 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 5 | To return to crack propagation in brittle solids , it does not really matter for our present purposes whether fracture is initiated by a dynamic blow or by a static load . |
| 6 | Some years ago much interest was shown in the production of Single Cell Protein ( SCP ) either by the bacterial degradation of oil products or by the intensive culturing of algae in a medium containing inorganic nitrogen compounds . |
| 7 | This pattern can be explained either by an artefact arising with short PCR probes detecting clusters of short repeats or by a low abundance of the ERG product among other repeat products containing CpG trinucleotides . |
| 8 | Any spell cast by the bearer of the Staff will automatically work — it can not be dispelled or nullified in any way either by a magic card or by a magic item . |
| 9 | This chapter : ( 1 ) describes how an expert is appointed , either by the parties or by a professional body ( 10.2 ) ; ( 2 ) explains the problems created by the absence of effective appointment machinery independent of the parties ( 10.3 ) ; ( 3 ) shows how an appointment may be invalid ( 10.4 ) ; ( 4 ) provides a list of appointing authorities with figures for some of their rates of appointments ( 10.5 ) ; ( 5 ) outlines procedures for making an application to an appointing authority ( 10.6 ) ; ( 6 ) shows that the court will not help parties obstruct appointments ( 10.7 ) ; ( 7 ) considers the difficulties that can arise from perceived conflicts of interest ( 10.8 ) . |
| 10 | This is a formal step which may be taken by the agent or by the local solicitor . |
| 11 | Attempts to delay stent clogging by prescribing long term antibiotics or by the mucolytic action of aspirin have met with little success , though recent studies suggest that silver impregnation of the stent and omitting side holes may be helpful . |
| 12 | If a comprehensive settlement included the repatriation of the refugees ( admittedly a wholly inconceivable eventuality at present ) , Jordan would cease to have either economic or political importance , and would probably be absorbed eventually either by Syria or by the Palestinian state . |
| 13 | In one statute ‘ confidential information ’ means information disclosure of which is forbidden by statute or by the civil servant who gave it to the local authority . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , no power is conferred for this purpose , either by statute or by the common law , although there was ample authority to enter to arrest if there were sufficient grounds to suspect that an offence had been committed . |
| 15 | Unfortunately even where fitted , dpc 's can easily be fractured or by-passed by ground movement , bad workmanship or by the plain ignorance of builders or owners . |
| 16 | The downturn in the tyre industry hit rubber prices , which fell to a four-year low in Asia , despite purchases for the buffer stock and by the American government for its defence stockpile . |
| 17 | It was not a final closure and by the new century a younger generation was challenging the social-purity consensus . |
| 18 | ‘ I was absolutely taken aback by my result and by the national result , ’ he admitted . |
| 19 | Under its 1958 Constitution ( revised in 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1974 and 1976 ) executive power in the Fifth French Republic is vested in a President , who is directly elected for a seven-year term by universal suffrage and by an absolute majority of votes cast . |
| 20 | The leaders and the activists were no doubt also motivated by personal ambition and by a jealous regard for their own organizations but , at various crisis points , many were willing to subordinate their own ambitions to the greater goal of ‘ saving Ulster ’ . |
| 21 | The Opojaz group , as its full title implies ( The Society for the Study of Poetic Language ) consisted of students of literature who were united both by a dissatisfaction with existing forms of literary study and by a positive interest in the poetry of the Russian Futurists . |
| 22 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 23 | The merest traces of various gases exist at the surface of Mercury , amounting to about 10 12 times less than the mass of the Earth 's atmosphere and which can be entirely accounted for by capture from the solar wind and by the radioactive decay of certain isotopes in the surface materials . |
| 24 | The belief that there is no real alternative is being challenged by the activities of teachers working in consultative/support roles and by an increasing body of research . |
| 25 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 26 | An important role in providing such information is played by COSIRA and SICRAS and by the industrial development bureaus operated by many local authorities . |
| 27 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 28 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 29 | Viewed by many as a vain upstart , de Gaulle 's stand was in fact inspired not by ambition but by a deeply-held belief in the grandeur of France . |
| 30 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that the privatisation of the inspectorate inherent in the Education ( Schools ) Bill goes far further than that presaged in the schools charter and includes , under the guise of additional inspectors , the substitution of private money-making firms to do the work currently carried out , not just by local inspectors but by the chief inspector of schools ? |