Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Reprinting of results , in whole or in part , is forbidden except by permission of the publisher .
2 Reprinting of results , in whole or in part , is forbidden except by permission of the publisher .
3 By a respondent 's notice dated 25 January 1992 the defendant sought that the judgment be affirmed on the additional ground that she was a residential occupier within the meaning of section 27 of the Act of 1988 because her right to remain in occupation was controlled by the Rent Act 1977 so that she could not be evicted except by enforcement of the possession order by a bailiff executing a warrant for possession , whether or not her statutory tenancy had been terminated by the possession order .
4 Commentators noted that the decree might prove impossible to implement except by force .
5 The students at Holy Cross took their share in the very considerable proof-reading , for we included collects , epistles and gospels , which had not been done except by reference in the earlier Burmese prayer books .
6 She wonders what it will look like by midnight .
7 But when you put your filter in it wo n't run because by time your bag 's filling up it 's pushing your filter in .
8 What Henry wanted was control of Scotland , no matter whether by marriage treaty or by force .
9 Farmers in the terai or plains are not really affected except by flooding — although for physiographic reasons most of the flooding occurs to the south of the border with India .
10 The employee 's problems arose because by section 82 the ages used for disentitlement were those at which the old age pension was payable — 60 for women and 65 for men .
11 The scope of the legal doctrine , and its implications for constitutional change , can not be settled except by analysis of the political morality which gives it its authority .
12 In summer readily distinguished from Black Tern by conspicuous white forewing , rump and tail , shorter stouter reddish-brown bill , but in winter hard to separate except by lack of dark spot on side of breast , paler rump or brighter red legs .
13 If born by natural means , the subject 's entry into the UFO will never be imagined as by way of a bright explosion of light ; if born by surgical means , the entry will never be by transport along a tube or tunnel .
14 Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output .
15 I wonder if by way of introduction , the county might wish to comment on that .
16 Films and videos should neither be edited nor coloured except by permission of the individual writers or producers .
17 ‘ Art ’ music , for example , is generally regarded as by nature complex , difficult , demanding ; ‘ popular ’ music then has to be defined as ‘ simple ’ , ‘ accessible ’ , ‘ facile ’ .
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