Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It read : ‘ Not only is debt partly responsible for the slump in commodity prices ; it also devours the money earned by Third World exports . |
| 2 | Fill in the special entry form you 'll find in the card and if your entry arrives by next Sunday you can play the pools for 10 weeks for a tenner with an extra week FREE . |
| 3 | With this in mind , the research proceeds by first constructing and estimating a multi-technology diffusion model . |
| 4 | In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " . |
| 5 | Cold wind that stirs up bitter memories Peter Hetherington reports on ambivalent feelings created by a memorial service in the town scarred by last year 's crash . |
| 6 | LIFESPAN allows this process to begin by first ensuring that no further modifications can be entered into LIFESPAN during the assessment process . |
| 7 | The occupation of the West Bank was a result of a war launched by third parties . |
| 8 | If the search problem in speech is indeed such that A* starts to behave like breadth-first , then the only way out of the combinatorial explosion produced by breadth-first search is to keep the search tree small . |
| 9 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 10 | Last month , WMC performed a demonstration at Windsor Castle for the queen 's architect , Paul Sherrod , and some of the craftsmen involved in assessing and repairing the damage caused by last year 's fire . |
| 11 | TEN loss adjusters are still assessing the extent of the damage caused by last week 's 1,000lb blast . |
| 12 | But first we had visited Decoy Marsh , the site of an early duck decoy built by seventeenth century Dutch engineers who fancied roast duck on their menu . |
| 13 | Pressure on office space caused by post-Second World War recruitment and expansion of the collection led to further building on the site in 1954–55 . |
| 14 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 15 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 16 | Strong growth helped by last year 's rights issue and improved sales should mark up profits 22% to £400m , says UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 17 | Pam emerged from a strong field headed by twenty-fifth ranked Sabine Appelmans from Belgium and two of the world 's most successful juniors in recent years , Maggie Maleeva and Cristina Tessi . |
| 18 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 19 | And with every new subscription received by first post on Friday 7th April we guarantee 5 free entries in the Communist Party 's 1989 Grand Draw " Facing Up To The Future " . |
| 20 | The county might have made it but for a dislocated shoulder suffered by second string Barry Hutchinson ( Stockton Racecourse ) . |
| 21 | This show was most generously sponsored for the fourth year running by Next , who take a keen interest in the RCA . |
| 22 | Other ideas such as the problem posed by third world economic development and Douglas 's fears of new technology destroying rather than creating employment were used to justify such policies . |
| 23 | There will be 34 starters headed by Kevin Schwantz in poll position followed by last year 's champion Wayne Rainey . |
| 24 | The scheme proceeds by first identifying the elements of communication , as follows : |
| 25 | The system works by first analysing a page to identify column numbers and to mark out graphics and images that can not be processed . |
| 26 | In a bar deep in the Commons , two Tory backbenchers debate the future of a party rocked by last week 's dreadful election results |