Example sentences of "use [prep] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taiwan and Ireland are said to be preparing to halt the use of driftnets by June 30 next year . |
| 2 | It could be argued , on a theoretical level , that that should have been a concern since the use of SSAPs by businesses means that the compilers of the national income accounts are presented with the same problem — but that is left to the statisticians to resolve . |
| 3 | Irigaray 's analyses of the use of pronouns by hysterics and obsessives ( 1966:29–31 , 1967:55–68 ) reveal that whereas obsessives are unable to say ‘ me ’ because they are caught in a specular image of themselves in which there is no object , only an undifferentiated self ( Irigaray 's ‘ on ’ ) , hysterics are unable to say ‘ I ’ because they are unable to complete the trajectory through the other that would allow them access to full subjectivity . |
| 4 | A crude analysis of the use of doctors by the various socio-economic groups shows , for both males and females , either a similar or a lower use by the semi-skilled and unskilled groups than other groups . |
| 5 | Analysis on these lines often has a basis in lexical studies ( the Chubin & Moitra paper suggests subject analysis of reference contents from titles cited ) , and since metaphor plays such an important part in descriptions of the citation process ( Cronin 1981 ) , there is a danger that the models may be descriptive of a meta-reality which does not truly model the actual use of citations by authors and readers . |
| 6 | No action has been taken against those responsible for the shootings or to introduce any official regulations on the use of firearms by law enforcement personnel . |
| 7 | AI has called for an independent inquiry into the killings and repeatedly called for a curb on the use of firearms by the security forces . |
| 8 | It was also in 1883 , amidst considerable alarm about the increasing use of firearms by burglars , that the London police were armed for the first time in their history . |
| 9 | It may be wise , they conclude , to restrict the use of VDUs by pregnant women . |
| 10 | The survey did not include use of lawyers by business clients . |
| 11 | This research project investigates the development of spatial cognition in early childhood , focusing on three areas ; 1 ) spatial orientation in 2-5 year olds , 2 ) use of coordinate reference systems by 4-7 year olds , and 3 ) interpretation and use of maps by 4-7 year olds . |
| 12 | The principal points include : , setting a target for a 30 per cent reduction in global carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 ; , a total ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons by 1994 ; , introducing an " energy tax " to encourage conservation of energy ; , adopting a system of marketable " permits to pollute " , which could be traded between companies ; , introducing road pricing and peak hour bans on cars in congested city centres ; , phasing out tax perks for company cars and replacing the Vehicle Excise Duty with a local authority tax on car use . |
| 13 | This increase has generally followed the increased use of fertilisers by something like two decades , so that as yet there is little pesticide in most groundwater . |
| 14 | There were no differences in the use of services by the social class of the older people . |
| 15 | The national data on use of services by age may indeed not truly reflect needs of individuals at different ages ; there is , after all , evidence of rationing by age , so the elderly may not get the health care they need . |
| 16 | International action is now needed to ban the use of gill-nets by amateur fishermen . |
| 17 | No , they said , we are talking only about the responsible use of contraceptives by those who have already had several children . |
| 18 | This fall in pregnancy rate has been explained by the greater use of contraceptives by teenagers , particularly those over sixteen . |
| 19 | The youths were black , a fact made clear by the relatively unusual use of photographs by the papers ; the young women were white . |
| 20 | Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography . |
| 21 | On Aug. 28 , 1990 , the then Agriculture Minister , Braks , announced a programme — described as the strictest in the world — designed to halve by 2000 the use of pesticides by the country 's intensive agricultural industry . |
| 22 | Elimination of government subsidies for agrochemicals has contributed to a sharp fall in the use of pesticides by rice growers in Colombia and Venezuela . |
| 23 | The clever use of colours by the Ralph Kleeli salon gives this style depth and volume |
| 24 | The main thrust of this book is the educational use of microcomputers by school librarians and teachers in relation to the use of library and classroom resources . |
| 25 | The only area in which the courts have examined the use of the Chinese wall in any significant depth concerns the use of walls by firms of solicitors which have found themselves advising a client who has an adversarial relationship with a former client . |
| 26 | One of the unquestionable advantages of the growing use of computers by humanists is that it has done something to bridge the divide between two cultures — scientific and humanist — which many writers have lamented as threatening to fragment the community of scholars and the republic of learning . |
| 27 | BARB 's product has recently been upgraded to take account of the changing marketplace and the increasing use of computers by agency media departments . |
| 28 | An example is the use of Protocols by the South Pacific Forum States in the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty , and the Driftnet Fishing Convention . |
| 29 | The mechanisms to achieve this and an assessment of the errors involved are documented , together with an explanation of new and promising possibilities to relate polling districts and enumeration districts that can exploit the increased use of postcodes by the 1991 census . |
| 30 | State department officials seem to have been concerned that the conference would deflect attention from their own campaign to expose the alleged use of mycotoxins by Vietnam in Laos and Kampuchea . |