Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the big problems the widower does have is that he does not feel so free to express his grief to others by weeping when he talks of his wife , their life together and the events that led up to her death . |
| 2 | In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 . |
| 3 | Some have therefore concluded that such a tax deduction system would increase the flow of revenue to charities by more than the tax loss and hence produce an increase in social service provision . |
| 4 | We have already noted that he is loquacious on certain topics , but he implicates an attitude of , at least , indifference to McKendrick by the way he appears not to take up turns allocated to him enthusiastically , and to allocate turns to McKendrick infrequently . |
| 5 | My friend was followed from seat to seat by a dirty old man during He-Man and the Masters of the Universe . |
| 6 | In January 1937 it patched together a new ‘ united front ’ campaign in association with the ILP , the Communists , the Left Book Club and Tribune , around a programme of defence for the Spanish Republic , opposition to rearmament by the National government , support for the struggles of the unemployed and the affiliation of the Communist Party and the ILP to the Labour Party . |
| 7 | It also helps to explain the early opposition to combinations by members of the Clapham Sect . |
| 8 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 9 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 10 | The European Commission announced on Sept. 3 that it would buy 45,000 tonnes of surplus Hungarian wheat for transportation to Albania by rail in December . |
| 11 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 12 | The cell bodies of the sympathetic nerves to the upper gastrointestinal tract which are located within the irradiated volume thus represent a credible target since they might reasonably be expected to influence the duodenum in such a way that would lead to a susceptibility to ulcer by , for example , reducing mucosal blood flow or bicarbonate secretion , both of which functions are under sympathetic control . |
| 13 | There was no demonstrable prejudice to Findlay by the amendment : the case against him , based on the admissions. remained the same : that he had agreed to rob the Hainault post office at a date unknown . |
| 14 | Fears of an energy shortfall will lend new weight to calls by PowerGen , the smaller of the two Central Electricity Generating Boards , to take over a bigger share of the power market . |
| 15 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 16 | In late May two environmental groups , Greenpeace International and the Washington-based Nuclear Control Institute , launched a worldwide campaign to stop high-tonnage shipments of plutonium from Europe to Japan , warning of its potential dangers in the event of spillage and of its vulnerability to seizure by terrorists . |
| 17 | All being well this new M O U will be ready for submission to ministers by the middle of this year . |
| 18 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 19 | Endoscopic sclerotherapy as an alternative form of treatment for bleeding varices was first reported in 1939 in a young patient with extrahepatic portal vein occlusion and was eventually popularised as an alternative to surgery by the work of Johnston and Rodgers . |
| 20 | The demand management policies by which it was to be achieved seemed to offer a progressive alternative to socialism by providing the economic background which would allow measures of social betterment to be carried out without socialist control of the economy . |
| 21 | ‘ Eight threes , ’ the Trunchbull shouted , swinging Wilfred from side to side by his ankle , ‘ eight threes is the same as three eights and three eights are twenty-four ! |
| 22 | It must then be levelled from end to end and side to side by means of a board and spirit level ( Fig 2b ) . |
| 23 | Fig. 2 ( b ) The pool must be levelled from end to end and from side to side by means of a board and spirit level . |
| 24 | The pupil 's surroundings can be used as an aid to mobility by providing clues to help in orientation , and key points in a building or a room can be utilised as reference points in terms of location and direction . |
| 25 | In seeking to interpret the Constitution , the courts may have recourse to works by constitutional experts . |
| 26 | Given the disparate sources of the Constitution and the fact that important relationships within and between organs of the state are not laid down in any one formal or binding document , it is not surprising that one must have recourse to books by constitutional scholars to discover the extent and nature of those relationships . |
| 27 | Bloomsbury 's Essential Art History from Abstract Expressionism to Zeitgeist by Paul Duro and Michael Greenhalgh ( autumn 1992 ) is part of a series offering a guide to the history of Western art . |
| 28 | And this month it looked like losing any semblance of true commercial independence when its two biggest shareholders , Spain 's El Pais and Italy 's La Repubblica newspaper groups , said they may be forced to increase their joint stake to 50% by investing more money in it . |
| 29 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 30 | The first is a female spirit with long fair hair who travels from village to village by water , visiting farms and helping to tend cattle . |