Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 The service was organised by clergy in response to calls from local people who wanted help to cope with their grief .
2 The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively .
3 The martel de fer was a type of mace used by both horse and foot soldiers , and was often carried by archers in preference to the sword .
4 Since — outside the public sector , or some industry-wide schemes — only Britain offers ‘ portable ’ pensions , carried by employees from job to job , British pension funds can expect to win recruits from other countries .
5 Editor , — The logistic problems that Stella Lowry associates with community based teaching could be resolved by funding in proportion to that supporting teaching hospitals .
6 Nevertheless the Belgian scholar van der Vyver pointed out that a panegyric addressed by Ennodius of Pavia to Theodoric the Great in 508 refers to a recent influx of Alamans into Ostrogothic territory , and he suggested that this should be linked to Clovis 's victory , which he placed in 506 .
7 The extraordinary array of chains and fetters , manacles and shackles exhibited by Birmingham for export to America 's slave states , for instance …
8 During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics .
9 A famous letter written by Fulbert of Chartres to William V of Aquitaine rehearsed the duties of the vassal in terms deliberately chosen to be easily remembered by the warriors to whom it was to be read :
10 Data will be collected by means of questionnaires to mother and fathers and interviews with mothers and siblings .
11 This process is slow in unmyelinated fibres but quicker in myelinated ones , when the action potential is transmitted by jumps from node to node .
12 From Rotterdam Cottage the cannabis was moved by road in vans to a garage in Station Road , Penge , South East London which , in the words of Scotland Yard 's drugs squad chief was " fortified almost as well as the Bank of England " .
13 These are databases carefully prepared by teams of specialists to be available soon on-line or distributed on disc .
14 I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care .
15 This sale of English furniture will put on offer a serpentine library table with original leather-lined top made by Gillows of Lancaster to a design by Thomas Chippendale .
16 Proposals made by way of change to a deposit copy have a relatively stronger affect against emergence , owing to the lesser public consultation which attends them prior to the enquiry stage .
17 Since 1974 the ‘ local ombudsman ’ has been available to supplement the role of local councillors in dealing with complaints made by citizens in relation to local government services , while more recently certain statutory requirements have been emplaced to give other , slightly more formal , remedies .
18 Take the following comments made by Ashwina in reply to my opening invitation to talk about a particular character she liked on television .
19 It is also important to recognise that it is on the basis of these statistics that important decisions are made by governments in relation to their policies towards crime and its treatment .
20 Modern Scottish Glass has already been seen by scores of visitors to the Tweeddale Museum , Peebles .
21 Many Western companies , frustrated by restrictions on sales to the eastern bloc , are likely to find the Soviet technology sales drive particularly galling .
22 Meanwhile , goods continued to be transported by road from Aqaba to Iraq .
23 Consignments of highly toxic chemical waste from Italy have been transported by lorry across Europe to Britain , at the rate of 200 barrels each week since February .
24 Its stylistic complexity was attributed by John of Salisbury to vanity rather than subtlety .
25 Given the fact that insistent negation in dreams and the speech is interpreted by psychoanalysis as resistance to a truth which the conscious mind would sooner deny , are the negatives not perhaps to be disregarded altogether ?
26 The news of his death would have quickly spread , and next morning it is probable that his body was conveyed by barge down river to Rochester , and then on to Canterbury .
27 It is clear that money was to be made honestly at this profession ; even clearer that forgery and other types of fraud were frequently used by moneyers as short-cuts to wealth .
28 The only modification offered by Law in response to the outcry from Unionist free-traders was that food taxes would be imposed only if requested by the Dominions ; after his talks with Borden , there was no doubt about this anyway .
29 They recognized that a return to the Carolingian situation , in which , in theory at least , all free men were bound by oaths of loyalty to the crown , was an unrealistic aspiration ; and they did not even succeed in asserting their lordship over all French rear-vassals , on the lines suggested by Suger .
30 The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context .
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