Example sentences of "[be] [noun] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there are interactions by age in figure 13.10 , it is likely that we are dealing with a generation effect . |
| 2 | In addition to the significant changes which have taken place in local taxation , there have also been attempts by government to modify the tax structure in order to make it more equitable , while at the same time encouraging savings and increasing the base of UK share ownership . |
| 3 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 4 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 5 | This is an important question since ( a ) dictionaries are attempts by people to represent externally what they know about language ; and ( b ) they are an existing source of information that has evolved over hundreds of years . |
| 6 | That Hubbard and Lewontin are biologists by profession shows up in several ways . |
| 7 | If there was actual combustion of the damaged goods , however caused , there has been damage by fire . |
| 8 | Included in the present show are views by Ruskin , Thomas Shotter Boys and William Turner of Oxford , garden pieces by Helen Allingham and Lilian Stannard and an interesting group of interiors and architectural designs including a group of designs by J. D. Crace , together with work by Joseph Nash , Birket Foster and George Pyne . |
| 9 | There are trips by water dolmus too , and longer coach excursions to the great antiquities of Epheseus . |
| 10 | The notion that they can be judged by Libyan law wherever they are , because they are Libyans by birth and can not alter that by acts of will , seems to underlie the government 's policies of clandestine homicide towards them . |
| 11 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 12 | His office and that of Major Herriott are side by side in York . |
| 13 | When two guanine bases are side by side in the DNA chain , both can attach themselves to the same platinum atom , forming a stable complex . |
| 14 | Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’ |
| 15 | The one she invited Franck to sit in and her own are side by side against the wall of the house — backs against this wall , of course — beneath the office window . |
| 16 | If you do try to use them , the first row will knit but , as you knit the second row , where several tucked needles are side by side the yarn will come off the needles and jam the carriage . |
| 17 | They are side by side . ’ |
| 18 | The extremes of management approach to the problem are management by discipline and management by project . |
| 19 | Also Popular are visits by fado ( Portuguese ballad ) singers and by instrumentalists who play the mandolin . |
| 20 | That , in my own mind , though they can not be opened for the day to the public to see are gardens by comparison with which the most beautiful garden of this island is tawdry and unkempt . |
| 21 | They 're mine by rights , mind , so do n't go losing them . ’ |
| 22 | And in the USA , where thermal protection products are distribution by Cooperheat Inc , confidence is high as health scares associated with other barrier materials are driving customers towards silica-based textiles . |
| 23 | Now plenty of people are carers by choice , and people want to look after the people who need care in their family , but th i , it 's a problem is n't it ? |
| 24 | The gun had been handbuilt by Holland & Holland of London , perfectly balanced and beautifully engraved . |
| 25 | In the run up to todays budget meeting there have been protests by parents and teachers worried that education , as the authorities biggest spender , will bear the brunt of the cuts . |
| 26 | The immigrants are strangers by virtue of their colour and culture . |
| 27 | Mayer , and there are paintings by M. Halwachs , F. X. Balko and others . |
| 28 | On the walls are paintings by Tabboo , the artist friend who did the lettering on their first LP sleeve . |
| 29 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 30 | The ‘ Mercury ’ catalogue is by no means all showpiece music — there are concertos by Dvořák , Schumann and Beethoven for example — but the discs one lingers over include Doráti and the LSO in Stravinsky , Paray/detroit SO in an all-Ravel programme , or Dorźti again with the LSO and his own Minneapolis Orchestra in Respighi 's Pines , Fountains and Birds . |