Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system was being increasingly undermined , however , both by the growing numbers of those holding Matai titles and by a reduction in the traditional structures through which the chiefs had exercised authority . |
| 2 | However , no doubt mollified both by the President 's dramatic decision on Tuesday to announce the release of eight long-term political prisoners and by the urbanity of his style , the archbishop did note that the talks had proceeded in ‘ a far better atmosphere ’ than previous encounters he has had with the government . |
| 3 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 4 | The dysfunctional force of this distinction between education and training has been reinforced by the binary system of state and public schools and by the belief in a ‘ classic ’ non-vocational education as a gold standard or jewel in the crown against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged . |
| 5 | Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room . |
| 6 | But in October 1341 , relieved of financial pressure by the desertion of some allies and by the bankruptcy of his Italian bankers , Edward repealed the offending statutes , though it is significant that it was done with the advice and assent of the earls , barons and other wise men . |
| 7 | The work of the committees of the council is always the subject of report to the council in some form , either as a report of what the committee has done under delegated powers or by the submission for the approval of the council of the recommendations of the committee . |
| 8 | They each had a few jokes and by the time the roach was flushed away she was already experiencing her first rush , a warm , dreamy sensation that seemed to encompass her whole being . |
| 9 | For example , there is evidence to suggest that a good deal of communication is achieved not so much by the online assembly of analysed items but by the adaptation of formulaic phrases ( see , for example , Pawley and Syder 1983 ) . |
| 10 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 11 | Nivelle 's campaign in Champagne opened on 19 April and met with the same fate as most earlier attacks : some 120,000 Frenchmen fell before the German machine-guns and by the day 's end an advance of only 550m/600yds had been made , in tragic contrast to Nivelle 's expected g.6km/6mls . |
| 12 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 13 | I was there for nearly six months and by the end of the first week , I wanted to die . |
| 14 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 15 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |
| 16 | Plant growth is expressed by the division of cells in localised regions and by the expansion and differentiation of these cells . |
| 17 | Except in the most westerly provinces , the land was redeemed not by individual peasants but by the village commune . |
| 18 | Except in the most westerly provinces , the land was redeemed not by individual peasants but by the village commune . |
| 19 | Dr V. Hasanali of the Soviet Institute of Climatology and Medicine , has stated in a paper published in Moscow that the vital activities of humans are affected not by individual factors but by the sum total of certain external factors . |
| 20 | If it remains in the NHS she should give an assurance that the quality of service will be improved , presumably both by refurbishment of remaining facilities and by a relaunch of the NHS nursing home project . |
| 21 | Not when it 's dark nights cos by the time I get home |
| 22 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 23 | The desire to modernise the UKCC and the national boards , and to condition them for the 1990s is uncontentious and is supported by the Opposition , by the professional organisations and by the health unions . |
| 24 | This must include spending by private individuals and by the state , the latter providing for ‘ collective consumption ’ of health and welfare services . |
| 25 | Such national rules may have to be challenged by individuals in national courts or by the Commission before the ambit of this restriction of the ‘ general good ’ is finally resolved . |
| 26 | The trip took three weeks and by the time she arrived , South Georgia had been recaptured . |
| 27 | These years were also marked by judicial executions and forfeiture of lands on a scale unknown , perhaps , since the Conquest , and the relations between the crown and nobility for the rest of the century were to be influenced by these upheavals and by the precedent set when the king himself was deposed . |
| 28 | Structures of control and ownership are inevitably affected by the rise of giant corporations and by the growth of financial institutions such as investment trusts and pension funds . |
| 29 | If even attempts to improve the standard of estate management did not raise the level of the returns ( and the study of the Talbot Whitchurch estates suggests that these were more affected by the underlying economic conditions than by the standard of management ) , the only prospect for a lord was to seek some supplementary income beyond that of his estates . |
| 30 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |