Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
| 2 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 3 | The extent of the ‘ gap ’ thereby filled by coin evidence can be appreciated from a glance at any book on Hellenistic or Roman portraiture . |
| 4 | Finally , Mr. Langley submitted that there was a strong presumption against the court having made an order which could have the effect of overriding or emasculating section 39 , and that it would be wrong to construe the injunction as being inconsistent with powers expressly given by Parliament to the Bank of England . |
| 5 | It was when Gesner stepped on to the stage — on this occasion looking unbelievable in his Mandrika costume successfully altered by Wardrobe — that Busacher forgave him , nearly , for all the trouble he caused . |
| 6 | Progress towards political reform under Nguyen Van Linh ( then secretary-general of the CPV ) " s programme of renovation ( doi moi ) was effectively halted by apprehension within the higher echelons of the CPV over the momentous events taking place in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during 1989-91 . |
| 7 | There was silence , eventually broken by Caretaker . |
| 8 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 9 | In general , children over the age of 5 or 6 years are mostly treated by enuresis clinics . |
| 10 | Areas of crustal subsidence usually form topographic features with minimal local relief because they become partly or wholly filled by sediment transported from surrounding highlands ; examples include the Lake Eyre Basin in southern Australia , the Kalahari Basin in southern Africa and the Ob Basin in the USSR . |
| 11 | Snow close to the coast is often additionally contaminated by mineral salts and organic material from the sea . |
| 12 | As between themselves the authority of individual partners to bind the firm can be properly circumscribed by agreement in effective variation of the basic principle set out in this section . |
| 13 | The increasing collection of different species of trees and plants , skilfully grouped by season or by collections of single types of trees , and designed in glades , avenues , and drives caused the eventual expansion of the arboretum to 600 acres . |
| 14 | With reference to your article on the inconsistencies in the Serpell report ( This Week , 27 January , p 220 ) the town of Keith is mostly surrounded by farmland and is certainly not in the middle of a peat bog ( Scottish or otherwise ) . |
| 15 | Some of Thomas Hardy 's leading characters are relentlessly pursued by fate ; they come to grief through sequences of evil coincidences no less remarkable than those by means of which the earlier heroes of Evangelical literature had been saved . |
| 16 | ( This system has , however , been effectively outflanked by satellite — see below . ) |
| 17 | The case study illustrates that the implications of demographic trends can be modified by unforeseen economic events but they can also be successfully addressed by policy planning . |
| 18 | Clark 's Lotus team-mate Graham Hill ( GB ) pulled our of the race which was eventually won by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise . |
| 19 | There followed a long wrangle over Benedict 's future , which Sir John Merchiston eventually won by virtue of the fact that Robert Beckenham 's new wife was delivered of a boy . |
| 20 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 21 | Broad bean plants badly attacked by rust must be destroyed , not composted |
| 22 | Consciousness appears to be almost wholly dominated by language as the medium of thought and expression , so that the entire surface of cognitive processes and voluntary responses appears to be channelled through language . |
| 23 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 24 | Although he was still , of course , a professional of the highest class , he was now in his seventies and much ravaged by arthritis and other ailments . |
| 25 | From this base he mounted a successful practice executing public works and speculative building on the grandest scale , only halted by bankruptcy in the financial crash of 1793 . |
| 26 | Area Health Authority to apply on four hours ' notice to all parties ( such notice to be sufficiently given by telephone ) to vary or discharge this injunction . |
| 27 | The " " lycorys " " that Nicholas is as sweet as ( 3207 ) is echoed by the " " likerous ye " " of Alison ( 3244 ) and the liquourice that Absolon , less favoured by nature , chews : before approaching Alison 's window on the night of the denouement of the tale . |
| 28 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 29 | Many merely developed by ribbon expansion along existing streets , but others had additional planned elements added , as had happened earlier at Cambridge and Stamtord . |
| 30 | The sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) is widespread , particularly so on the Downs near the coast where conditions are unsuitable for most other tree species , and it is much favoured by passage migrants . |