Example sentences of "in [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trust 's conservation manager , Dr Charles Beardall , said : ‘ Vegetation which has taken centuries to become established is being wiped out in minutes by these vehicles and important bird colonies are being disturbed . ’ |
| 2 | Fish and squid are killed in minutes by sounds much weaker than this . |
| 3 | Mr Fennell did not believe the change would lead to people being represented in courts by a solicitor only . |
| 4 | The call " for a 20 per cent reduction in emissions by 2005 , rather than stabilisation at 1990 levels in 2000 , to which the EC is committed " forms part of a list of 55 environmental measures which the group is calling for the community to implement . |
| 5 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 6 | three anecdotes , two comic and one pathetic ( about a poor widow and her son who is dying of consumption ) originally published as ‘ Our Next-Door Neighbours ’ in The Morning Chronicle 18 Mar. 1836 , and collected in Sketches by Boz . |
| 7 | The first six of these seven items originally appeared as ‘ Sketches of London , nos. 4 , 12 , 14 , 16 , 18 and 20 ’ in The Evening Chronicle ( see MORNING CHRONICLE ) between Feb. and Aug. 1835 under a common subtitle , ‘ The Parish ’ , and were collected in volume form in Sketches by Boz , First Series , ( Feb. 1836 ) . |
| 8 | In Sketches by Boz ( 32 ) he gives a detailed account of a visit to Newgate ; this gaol also features prominently in Barnaby Rudge , and appears in both Oliver Twist ( 16 ) and Great Expectations ( 32 ) . |
| 9 | He wrote song lyrics used in sketches by light entertainers such as Jack Hulbert . |
| 10 | One important contribution of these essays lies in showing just why this is necessary , with particularly helpful and clear accounts in essays by Anne Phillips , Moira Gatens and Michèe Barrett . |
| 11 | Focus is changed by squeezing the lens with muscles ( or in chameleons by moving the lens forwards or backwards , as in a man-made camera ) . |
| 12 | Myra is a dear , but she 's also a gossip … my reputation will be in shreds by the time I get back . ’ |
| 13 | 4 Implied obligations in contracts by sample |
| 14 | Using GARCH , he found that futures returns and innovations in returns led spot returns and innovations in returns by one hour . |
| 15 | A choreographer 's wish to exploit a particularly gifted dancer usually leads that dancer to develop more fully and to have more to give when cast in ballets by more objective choreographers . |
| 16 | They are found in ballets by Jooss , Massine , MacMillan and others . |
| 17 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 18 | It is considered that his present and future operations should be more carefully coordinated and controlled both in planning and in operations by H.O . |
| 19 | Tundra streams are richer in invertebrates by a factor of 10 , spring streams richer still by a factor of 100 . |
| 20 | Other developed countries as a group showed growths of 8 per cent in exports by volume and of 9 per cent in imports . |
| 21 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 22 | In 1982 the EEC limited production of CFCs 11 and 12 and cut their use in aerosols by 30 per cent . |
| 23 | At the same time , changing consumer habits cut use of CFCs in aerosols by 50 per cent . |
| 24 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 25 | The court heard that McGregor had been caught up in attempts by a neighbour to end a relationship between his 20-year-old daughter and an older man . |
| 26 | Early references to the flora are present incidentally or by inference in accounts by early travellers to the islands or other writers about the islands . |
| 27 | Men , women and children were slaughtered in groups by their Serb captors . |
| 28 | ‘ City Limits ’ features a series of modern novels set in cities by a selection of writers including Jeanette Winterson , Philip Kerr and Mordecai Richler . |
| 29 | The body of the 18 month old collie pup was found dumped in woods by the side of a road . |
| 30 | Lump-sum grants from a central government stimulate greater local authority spending than would occur as a result of an equivalent cut in taxes by a central government . |