Example sentences of "[coord] by [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 2 | But the royal power of veto over the legislation of the colonial assemblies was still active at a time when it was dying out in Britain , and it could be exercised either by governors on the spot or by the government in London . |
| 3 | It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground . |
| 4 | The whole operation was for Reagan 's sake , as well as the hostages ' ; it was a present for him , preferably one to be delivered by Christmas , or by the State of the Union address in January , or by the elections in November . |
| 5 | Allocation decisions are made by the Librarian , or by the Librarian in conjunction with the library committee ( largely comprised of academics ) , or by the library committee alone . |
| 6 | The Everglades , home to a huge variety of plant and animal species , have been damaged by oxygenation caused by fertiliser run-off from sugar plantations , and by a reduction in water flow from the Kissimmee river . |
| 7 | In the case of kidneys , this is brought about by several factors — by changed rates of secretion of some hormones ( see Fig. 3.2 ) , by altered activity in the nerves going to the kidney , and by a reduction in blood supply to the kidneys . |
| 8 | The private housing market in Northern Ireland is characterised by a high level of new development and by a growth in owner-occupation . |
| 9 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 10 | As in the seventeenth century , the development of political consciousness was inhibited by the low cultural level of provincial noblemen , and by the differences in outlook between noblemen of different regions and different degrees of wealth . |
| 11 | Since beginning this letter I have been with Nansen in the Samara district , where the conditions are even worse than in Saratov , in spite of the very good work done by the ARA in Samara and by the Friends in Bouzoulouk . |
| 12 | But encouraging and rewarding reliance are not always of decisive importance ; it is sometimes better to leave some matter unregulated by convention in order to allow the play of independent judgment both by judges and by the public in anticipation of what judges might do . |
| 13 | These problems have been compounded in the 1980s by the government 's encouragement of the sale of council houses and by the rise in house prices in the owner-occupied sector , so that the acceleration in the urban-rural shift in the mid 1980s is not likely to have been caused by the lower paid . |
| 14 | So four major fund raising schemes and a lot is being planned locally , by branches and by the councils in Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales . |
| 15 | And by the mid-1980s in California one in two marriages ended in divorce , and one in three in other high-density populations in North America and parts of Europe . |
| 16 | He would have been saddened by the closure of Kelham and by the decline in numbers at similar Anglican institutions . |
| 17 | While textiles were always the major item , the old trade in pepper was being displaced by the coffee trade with Arabia , and by the trade in tea , which then came exclusively from China . |
| 18 | Pakistan was badly hit by revenue losses resulting from the Gulf crisis and by the suspension in October of US economic aid [ see below ; p. 37764 ] . |
| 19 | Such people are not all motivated simply by money , but by an interest in building and in architecture and , like everyone else , they have to live with their creations . |
| 20 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |