Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the problems , there is considerable optimism that most WIPers will , by hook or by crook , have been given contracts by the end of the year . |
| 2 | This reference could include the civilian aircraft sector , which Mr Clinton spoke out on publicly last week when he accused the EC of unfairly subsidising exports by the Airbus Industrie aircraft consortium . |
| 3 | THE EXODUS from East Europe continued unabated yesterday , with thousands leaving and many would-be emigres defying attempts by the Communist authorities to prevent their crossing into Czechoslovakia , from where most refugees are fleeing to the West . |
| 4 | The Swedish connection , working mainly through Hermann Goering still , set up meeting after meeting , held session after session , made proposals by the score . |
| 5 | And the evening will include a session with rare and seldom heard recordings by the star . |
| 6 | In 1989 no award was made , partly because the sponsor felt that publishers were submitting books by the distinguished but small group of authors who had already won prizes , and the prize was allowed to lapse until this year . |
| 7 | People who complain about the failures of schools generally assume such a system , and indeed often judge schools by the examination results that they publish . |
| 8 | She slid the geranium from her ear and stared at it for a moment , then shifted her gaze to her still unpacked cases by the door . |
| 9 | Until Saturday , Mr Yeltsin and his team had received a comparatively easy ride , thwarting attempts by the Communist-dominated parliament to assert its authority over the executive . |
| 10 | The A34 just south of Newbury is still down to a single lane due to the roadworks there , between the Swan roundabout and Sandalford roundabout and the A41 London road in Bicester has roadworks by the level crossing , temporary traffic lights there , expect some congestion which is reasonably bad at the moment , but it is beginning to clear in both directions . |
| 11 | Expos 'd in a True Picture of [ Jeremy Collier ] ( 1704 ) by Thomas Brown , or Hypocrisie Unmasked , the title of two works with American associations , one published in 1646 by Edward Winslow relating grievances by the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gordon of Rhode Island , the other published in 1776 with the subtitle or , A short inquiry into the religious complaints of our American colonies . |
| 12 | THOSE OF you who are old , sad , or obsessive enough to remember Social Distortion from their days as an early '80s San Francisco hardcore band might be surprised to learn that they now shift units by the truckload in America . |
| 13 | The process of purchasing bills by the Bank of England is known as rediscounting . |
| 14 | In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable . |
| 15 | The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route . |
| 16 | The fighting continued in the peninsula for some weeks , with Tehran radio announcing attacks by the ‘ army of monotheism ’ along the Fao/Umm Qasr and Fao/Basrah axes . |
| 17 | In our sample , in the south both have lost virtually the same amount of ground ; yet the Lib Dems have won seats by the handful . |
| 18 | Facilities for support and intervention were ‘ patchy ’ and must be made uniform , co-ordinating efforts by the police , social services , school and family , he said . |
| 19 | When Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tesfaye Dinka visited the Soviet Union on March 7 , the Soviet side laid particular emphasis on promoting talks on peace and national reconciliation , while on March 21 the Western press reported comments by the Soviet ambassador in Sudan , that all Soviet military advisers had been withdrawn by late February to Addis Ababa or back to the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Chaudhury ( 1986 ) and Rehal ( 1989 ) identified how parents of ethnic minority children may be disadvantaged during special needs assessments by the failure of LEAs and professionals to take account of language and cultural factors . |
| 21 | Having met the Prime Minister to discuss the matter , she said he had been sympathetic , but she dismissed moves by the Home Office as a cosmetic exercise . |
| 22 | At the beginning of 1812 the first attacks on shearing frames by the Yorkshire croppers began . |
| 23 | The Levant Company claimed the right to these dues , but both Wyche and Crowe claimed them for the Crown , and Charles I had provided further occasion for dispute between all three parties by formally alienating them to Crowe in 1636 , though the latter , in return for compensating payments by the company , waived his right until his arrival in Constantinople in October 1638 . |
| 24 | The buyer as well as the seller will often have documents to sign ; for example , if the transfer or other document contains covenants by the buyer ( to observe restrictions or to erect a fence , or on a joint purchase ) the document vesting the property in him , her or them will require execution . |
| 25 | But secularizing moves by the English liberals — over the Education Bills of 1902 , 1906 , and a private member 's Bill of 1911 — led the Irish hierarchy to question some of the political intentions of the Irish politicians , who it was feared might sell out the church 's interest in schools . |
| 26 | Phillip was voted tops by the British Shops and Stores Association . |
| 27 | A new export-processing zone near Lomé , designed to attract foreign capital and develop non-traditional exports , was expected to come into operation after the publication of enabling decrees by the Council of Ministers in May 1990 . |
| 28 | When a borrower was systematically unable to meet commitments by the required date he became insolvent , the final stage when all his remaining assets were repossessed . |
| 29 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 30 | There was pressure upon it , as there was then on teacher training institutions generally , to expand numbers rapidly and to attract numbers by the provision of a wide range of possible options . |