Example sentences of "by a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 A special assembly will be followed by a breakfast for pupils ' parents .
2 Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day .
3 Sears put on 2 to 92p , helped along by a couple of brokers ' recommendations .
4 The net indebtedness of bank A to bank B can be settled at the Bank of England by a transfer of bankers ' deposits from the account of A to the account of B. Notice that inter-bank settlement of this kind has no effect upon the total of bankers ' deposits , only upon their ownership .
5 The whole of England was linked by a network of carriers ' routes .
6 In a final , ironic comment on what commentators now referred to as ‘ the British disease ’ , television coverage of the national celebration was severely disrupted by a dispute over technicians ' pay .
7 There is some suggestion that this site was the original French mill , and was a fulling mill , followed by a number of years ' service as a saw mill .
8 This figure is multiplied by a number of years ' purchase , which is commonly known as the multiplier .
9 The appearance of women at Russian stations has to some extent been matched by a growth in women 's employment in railways elsewhere .
10 Simply , that the issues that affect our lives are entirely underpinned by a belief in women 's dubious nature ; their animality , their polluting tendencies , a sense that something might just erupt from the female that is dangerous and needs to be controlled .
11 However , the growth has not been matched by an increase in lessees ' sophistication .
12 Her satire , however , is always underpinned by an awareness of women 's vulnerability .
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