Example sentences of "[noun] by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This piece of street theatre is performed in Sanatrem by members of the Amazon defence group , warning of the dangers of mercury poison through eating contaminated fish . |
| 2 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 3 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 4 | East of the Ribblehead railway viaduct and almost in its evening shadow is the desolate moorland of Batty Green , an inhospitable tract of rough ground without distinguishing landmarks and apparently devoid of interest except to grazing sheep , with nothing to earn a second glance by motorists on the Ingleton — Hawes road alongside . |
| 5 | The reduction in referrals we observed and the 23% reduction reported in Plymouth Health District followed voluntary adoption of the guidelines by practitioners without any reinforcement of guidelines to ensure compliance . |
| 6 | In fact , Sellier ( 1978 ) attributes the generally late establishment of collective agreements in France ( only since the mid-1960s for the bulk of the private sector ) partly to the association by employers of workers and unions with revolutionary ideologies , but also to the marked weakness and slow development of employer organisations — the state long remaining the main partner of the unions . |
| 7 | It also helps to explain the early opposition to combinations by members of the Clapham Sect . |
| 8 | From 1989 , the changing international political climate and the bad press following the murder by elements in the army of six Jesuit priests in December 1989 has led the US Congress to question more closely the level of support being given to the government of El Salvador . |
| 9 | Inappropriate markets ( e.g. due to proximity of large numbers of restaurants , perception by customers of them as ‘ boozers ’ or ‘ drinking men 's pubs ’ or customer preference for fast food ) . |
| 10 | This situation has been discussed by Taylor , who suggested that there may be a complex relationship between the general form of the thesis and its perception by users as a potential information source . |
| 11 | to lay the human and physical foundations for a centre of experimental economics in the UK which we hope will come to compare favourably with such centres in other countries , and which may encourage greater awareness and wider use of experimental methods by economists as a supplement to their usual research activities . |
| 12 | But seasoned commuters now seem to accept disruption by terrorists as part of everyday life . |
| 13 | There the police said that Lucy Chamberlain had been identified after the shooting by documents in her handbag and by her distinctive clothing ; clothing later confirmed by her father in a telephone call from the police . |
| 14 | The rioting broke out in Washington Heights , northern Manhattan , following the shooting by police on July 3 of José Garcia , an immigrant from the Dominican Republic . |
| 15 | MOSCOW — Nagorny Karabakh , already effectively partitioned between its feuding Armenian and Azerbaijani communities into two armed camps , was yesterday facing further turmoil after the shooting by troops of an Armenian demonstrator in the capital , Stepanakert , on Tuesday , Rupert Cornwell writes . |
| 16 | There is also substantial private investment by employers in training for their staff which the Government encourage through the manpower training scheme . |
| 17 | Visit to Falklands by relatives of war dead |
| 18 | The USA first threatened to call off talks with the PLO in the immediate aftermath of the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 19 | A call by students and trade unionists for a demonstration on June 9 in the capital resulted in the closure by police of the area around the National Assembly . |
| 20 | Admittedly , the lowest levels of the overlying limestone date back to the Eocene , but this merely proves long-continued subsidence : horizons of land fauna indicate interruption by periods of emergence . |
| 21 | Edinburgh Ladies and Royal High Gymnasts , currently second and third , clash at Cramond tomorrow , with Gymnasts aiming for revenge after their recent 1-0 defeat by Ladies in the quarter-final of the National League Cup . |
| 22 | Cliffhangers to come : a bid by rebels in the House of Lords to force a British referendum , a legal challenge over Britain 's social chapter opt-out , and a vote in both houses on scrapping the opt-out . |
| 23 | Rachel was taken to her home in Mossley Hill by friends after saying she felt ill at a 21st birthday party in Wavertree . |
| 24 | He was found slumped in a pool of blood by guards at his castle prison in Gibraltar . |
| 25 | Prosecuting , Gareth Davies said Harbison had excess alcohol in his breath when he was stopped in his car by police on the A45 between Barrow and Bury St Edmunds . |
| 26 | According to Neale , Elizabeth had originally wished to do no more than reintroduce her father 's national church , but was pressured into a more radical programme by Protestants in the House of Commons , who insisted on the adoption of the 1552 Prayer Book . |
| 27 | Individual coaching by professionals at one of the David Lloyd Clubs around the country costs £15 an hour , and group sessions can be arranged . |
| 28 | THOUGH , INITIALLY at least , The Complete Picture will be welcomed automatically and without irony by multitudes of intellectually challenged Smiths-buffs , even their seemingly endless capacity for sub-standard product should be sorely tested by its content . |
| 29 | I will rely mainly on conversations which were recorded in family homes by members of the families who lived there . |
| 30 | Captain Cook discovered New South Wales in 1770 and in that same year , hack in Britain , Lord North became Prime Minister but strong opposition by Colonialists in America to the imposition of tea-tax , developed in 1773 , which led to the Boston Harbour incident in the following year , and eventually to the American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1782 . |