Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnes president , Richard Glanton , a Philadelphia lawyer , sought to raise money for building repairs by selling up to fifteen works from the collection , which holds masterpieces by Cézanne , Matisse , Renoir and Seurat . |
| 2 | It was never suggested in Meikle that any one of the prosecutions was brought as a consequences of mala fides by the prosecutor . |
| 3 | These successes for the SPD and the Greens were due in large measure to declining public confidence in Kohl 's leadership , especially after tax increases to meet the costs of unification became inevitable despite election promises by Kohl that they would not be necessary [ see pp. 37904 ; 38297 ; 38109 ] . |
| 4 | Assuming the cost of labour increases by 20% , prices may only be put up by 10% without affecting sales limits and the number of labour hours available is reduced to 600 , what is the optimal mix of X and Y ? |
| 5 | Cost of labour increases by 20% ; prices increase by 10% ; and the number of labour hours is now reduced to 600 . |
| 6 | Taxation of wool exports by the King to finance overseas wars was a further factor which contributed to the growth of the textile industry and of English trade . |
| 7 | There is hardly a protuberance to disturb the airflow , save for two half-pear-shaped castings ( the step to wither wingwalk , ) , and small pairs of lifting handles by the tailplane and just aft of the cabin for the purpose of getting in . |
| 8 | At 13000°C the viscosity of silica drops by a factor of ten thousand million ( 10 10 ) for the addition of 25 per cent of soda . |
| 9 | The artist would reproduce that grid onto a studio canvas in a proportionately larger scale , using it as a sequence of reference points by which to plot and paint up the landscape configuration exactly to the Design drawing . |
| 10 | ICI welcomed the new limits , saying that they were in line with its own aim of cutting discharges by half by 1995 . |
| 11 | The Government 's target is to recycle 25pc of household wastes by the year 2000 , and a new duty would be imposed on councils to give priority to recycling waste , where desirable . |
| 12 | It had been thought here that Mr Lawson might at least repeat the formula of the Madrid summit , which defined when the time would be ripe for the pound to join with the words ‘ once inflation is again on a downward path and we have seen the removal of exchange controls by our Community partners ’ . |
| 13 | Aside from abolition of exchange controls by the other major economies , the Government insists that Britain 's inflation rate be brought more in line with that of her trading partners , before Britain takes the ERM plunge . |
| 14 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 15 | Within days of the veto it emerged that four of Bush 's leading donors and fund-raisers were the targets of law suits by federal regulatory authorities over their role in failed Savings and Loans institutions ( " thrifts " ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , introduced as they have been in a climate of manpower cuts by an allegedly insensitive senior management , the main effects of these developments may be to produce ‘ not just disgruntled employees ’ but also ‘ ineffective organisation ’ ( Plowden , 1985 , p. 410 ) . |
| 17 | Plans for the shipment from France to Japan of 1.3-1.7 tonnes of plutonium [ see p. 38987 ] aboard the Japanese freighter Akatsuki Maru received final approval from the French government on Oct. 29 amid protests by environmental groups and the imposition of transit bans by some governments . |
| 18 | However , in practice it is rare to find circumstances in which the court would be prepared to find that an obligation of confidence arises by virtue of an implied term of a contract but not by virtue of an equitable obligation ( see for example Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 ) . |
| 19 | Anthony d'Offay 's survey of neon works by Bruce Nauman , extensively previewed in last month 's issue , includes ‘ Seven Figures ’ ( 1985 ) , a chain of erotic entertainment ( to 16 May ) . |
| 20 | EMF announce a new single , featuring a galaxy of celebrity remixes by ORBITAL , FOETUS , BUTCH VIG , JOEY BELTRAM and D-REAM . |
| 21 | They added an essential element of credibility to the high-sounding rhetoric required of franchise bids by the ‘ public service , conditions set by the ITA . |
| 22 | Recently an HMG-box protein denoted SSRP1 , for structure-specific recognition protein 1 , has been discovered which binds to specific DNA structural elements such as the bent , unwound conformations that occur upon the formation of intrastrand crosslinks by the anticancer drug cisplatin . |
| 23 | In the first half of 1991 , however , restrictions were progressively eased , starting with a lifting of credit controls by the central bank on Jan. 1 . |
| 24 | Strong demand helped push up consumer prices by an official 8.6% last year and , because of price increases by utilities , 2.1% in January alone this year . |
| 25 | The BVDG is currently lobbying in Bonn and Brussels over taxation issues affecting the art market : the uncertainty of preferential tax treatment of art works by the EC in 1993 , and the German wealth tax ( Vermögenssteuer ) now levied on collections worth over DM 20,000 . |
| 26 | The same basic policy should be used for all " exceptions " : acknowledge the existence of alternatives , and encourage the habit of checking guesses by referring to the dictionary . |
| 27 | The habit of checking guesses by looking the word up , or asking . |
| 28 | Table 6 Ownership of consumer durables by household type |
| 29 | 1 The attitude of the courts The courts have developed a practice of viewing the position of an employee as particularly special and significant when dealing with restraint of trade claims by an employer . |
| 30 | Production of matchbox grips by small businesses lasted for 42 years , from 1911 to 1953 . |