Example sentences of "to [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recovery was due mainly to improvements by Netherlands subsidiary Logica BV , both as a result of its reduced headcount and improved sales performance . |
| 2 | The ‘ disturbances ’ refer to activities by supporters of Tibetan independence in Lhasa in 1988 . |
| 3 | The Roman system of supplying water to cities by means of aqueducts above ground presented an engineering problem . |
| 4 | This is a departure from the soul-searching that has gone on since Hayes v Malleable Working Men 's Club and Institute [ 1985 ] ICR 703 , of trying to find a useful comparative male illness ( prostate operation ? arthritic hips ? ) to emulate a medical condition comparable to the inconvenience caused to employers by a female employee 's pregnancy . |
| 5 | The real blame lies with the licence granted to employers by a statutory regime which stacks every deck in their favour . |
| 6 | Although there is no reference to crime in the Act of 1978 which corresponds to the reference in section 6 of the Act of 1935 , it is hardly to be supposed that Parliament , while creating a considerable extension of the right of contribution in cases other than cases of tort , nevertheless intended to narrow the right to contribution previously given to tortfeasors by the Act of 1935 . |
| 7 | The parasite is common in most countries although outbreaks of disease do not often occur , probably due to the fact that most systems of pig husbandry do not allow ready access to earthworms by pigs . |
| 8 | Private hire cars can only carry passengers in response to requests by phone . |
| 9 | Following his comments Shoob on Oct. 5 acceded to requests by the authorities to withdraw from the case and admitted that he had reached " certain preliminary conclusions " concerning the evidence . |
| 10 | Any or all of the program group boxes can themselves be reduced to icons by clicking on the downward facing arrow in the top right-hand corner of the screen or by selecting MINIMISE . |
| 11 | They were disillusioned with the protection afforded to seamen by legislation ; they had limited financial resources and preferred peaceful negotiation with the shipowners to strikes which they could ill afford and they saw no future in attempts to organise seamen on a national scale . |
| 12 | This is what most owners say when confronted by cherished furnishings , door frames or personal items , such as books or the remote control for the TV , that have been torn to shreds by beloved Rover in their absence , or nearly as distressing the evidence of his lack of toilet control . |
| 13 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 14 | There 's something about watching little birds , even dead ones , being torn to shreds by a powerful beak that turns my stomach . |
| 15 | The other major problem is that many applications still refer to fonts by ID number rather than by name , Aldus PageMaker is an honourable exception . |
| 16 | Details of the ‘ highly sensitive ’ information have not been made public , but it is understood to have originated from intelligence and diplomatic sources and probably relates to plans by Marcos loyalists to capitalise on his return to the country . |
| 17 | The name ‘ Spanish walls ’ ( mura Spagnole or bastione ) commemorates the Spanish governor of Milan , Ferrante Gonzaga , who had the walls built to plans by an Italian architect , Giuntallodi . |
| 18 | Monastic buildings were added to plans by Carlo Lurago and the church was redesigned by F. Špaček from 1733–5 . |
| 19 | All this is set to change if the Government agrees to plans by Oftel , the telecommunications industry regulator , to centralise the 999 emergency service by contracting it out to a private Call Handling Agency . |
| 20 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |
| 21 | Imagine introducing young people to molecules by giving them wooden cubes as atoms and dowel rods as bonds . |
| 22 | It cut net payments to creditors by $4 billion a year between 1989 and 1994 — twice as much as rescheduling would have done . |
| 23 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 24 | A statutory demand is one of the statutorily prescribed prerequisites to obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order . |
| 25 | The tenant has , of course , to undertake to open certain rooms and the garden to visitors on two afternoons a week , also to groups by appointment and occasionally to entertain for the Trust . |
| 26 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 27 | Eight of the 12 EC governments remain opposed to attempts by the EC Commissioner for competition policy , Sir Leon Brittan , to impose greater competition on national telecoms authorities . |
| 28 | The situation was more complicated , due to the fact that certain city officials with vested interests in the tannery operation had given the tannery written permission to send their chemical waste to the city sewage treatment plant , and were openly hostile to attempts by the YCCC or anybody else to raise the subject as a local government issue . |
| 29 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 30 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |