Example sentences of "[subord] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If change comes ( and if it does , it will be mild ) it will be driven more by the problems with Tokyo than by the aspirations of Osaka . |
| 2 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 3 | Some of the features of the legal model which we have depicted such as the power of the shareholders to dismiss the directors and the fiduciary duties imposed upon the directors are provided for by the law rather than by the articles of association . |
| 4 | The labour market disadvantages of people with disabilities have been largely caused by unequal treatment institutional discrimination and structural barriers to equal opportunity , rather than by the limitations of disability itself . |
| 5 | It is also how one must determine whether others have acted well or not , so far as externals go , though how far they have acted well in a proper inward sense , that is , how far they have been truly guided by the categorical imperative , rather than by the calculations of self interest , is hidden away in the depths of their being , hidden perhaps even from themselves . |
| 6 | That can be delivered by the industry , rather than by the words of politicians . |
| 7 | Could people be made to change their durable possessions as if by the whims of fashion ? |
| 8 | For me , the length of copy is largely determined by the complexity of the message to be communicated — as well , of course , as by the limitations of space or time . |
| 9 | The formal reopening will be attended today by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Mr Modrow as well as by the mayors of East and West Berlin . |
| 10 | Sometimes , too , information was deliberately falsified , misrepresented , touched up or omitted or withheld from the pope , as by the emissaries of Baldwin IX of Flanders . |
| 11 | This new field of local political research was stimulated by an increase in local authority activity , especially in housing and urban renewal , in the 1960s and early 1970s , as well as by the responses of community groups . |
| 12 | In late 1987 , a return to the retention ratio system was favoured by the Economic Chamber of Yugoslavia , as well as by the governments of Slovenia and Croatia . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it must be supposed that there were economic as well as social inducements to the policies of expansion beyond the West Frankish frontiers pursued by the dukes of Normandy , Aquitaine , and even Burgundy , as well as by the counts of Toulouse , Flanders , and for brief periods Blois and Anjou . |
| 14 | This doubt allowed the possibility of a claim by his rival , Matthew Stewart , earl of Lennox , even though by the rules of primogeniture Arran had the stronger case ; for he was descended from the son of James II 's daughter Mary , whereas Lennox was descended from her daughter . |