Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | His conviction ends the 3.5-year investigation into Vernon Savings , one of the first by the federal bank-fraud taskforce . |
| 2 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 3 | As Levinson ( 1983 : 320 – 21 ) puts it , Conversation , as opposed to monologue , offers the analyst an invaluable analytical resource : as each turn is responded to by a second , we find displayed in that second an analysis of the first by its recipient . |
| 4 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 5 | In flights , each lock is separated from the next by a space and has its own independent gates . |
| 6 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 7 | Bickerton ( 1973 ) provides detailed analyses using statistical scaling of variables to produce an implicational scale , ranking different speakers ' grammars in such a way that each grammar ( corresponding to a " lect " ) differs from the next by just one rule . |
| 8 | In the first place by virtue of the ‘ goodness ’ of the evolutionary process , and in the second by virtue of man 's own efforts to contribute . |
| 9 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 10 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 11 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |
| 12 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 13 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 14 | Do that , do that on sixty five divide by one hundred and eighty , multiply by the pi on your calculator , just one second Robin , yeah , it 's usually , it 's just theatrical , you should get , yeah , so you get the same answer , so you can either work it on ratings or you can write it like that , you could 've actually left it like that , if you come to the third by , you put thirteen over what is it ? eh |
| 15 | Two women who were late for the bus at one castle were left behind to follow it to the next by taxi . |
| 16 | The keys once stretched south from Florida almost to Cuba , each tiny island linked to the next by a bridge . |
| 17 | Passed on to the next by the country 's elite . |
| 18 | This type of structure is known as a linked list , because each item is linked to the next by a pointer . |
| 19 | Furthermore , each adaptation is supposedly transmitted from one generation to the next by genetic means alone . |
| 20 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 21 | ( The ‘ higher powers ’ of an intransitive relation arise when there are chains of elements each related to the next by the relation in question ; thus , if A is the father of B , B of C , and C of D , then A stands in the ‘ third power ’ of the relation ’ — father of — ’ to D. ) It can easily be seen that A in 1(a) and P in 1(b) fulfil this requirement ( assuming , of course , that the lines in the diagrams symbolise the relation of dominance ) . |
| 22 | He expresses favouritism , not love , from one daughter to the next by the things they will do for him , a characteristic not correct in any parent . |
| 23 | As the Dolphin approaches , summoned by Arion 's song , the suspense is maintained almost to the last by means of secondary dominants . |
| 24 | Photographic self-portraits and collages by Claude Cahun , an anti-establishment figure of the early part of the century , are on show at the Zabriskie until 7 November , to be followed on the 12th by photographs by Paul Strand . |
| 25 | In 1987 , however , Sainte-Engrâce got its road out , at the far , eastern end of the valley , over what suddenly became the Col de Soudet ; it was inaugurated one day and used on the next by the toiling cyclists of the Tour de France , as part of one of their horribly taxing mountain climbs . |
| 26 | The designer draws on the last by using a digitizing pen on a tablet . |
| 27 | An 18-foot putt on the 26th by the American meant that Dale Hayes , beaten 11 and 9 by Tom Watson in 1978 , was left holding that particular nettle . |
| 28 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 29 | He died in the Pyrenees , quite young , of pneumonia , attended at the last by the officious H. G. Wells , who describes his mercy mission to the bedside of his friend in his autobiography . |
| 30 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |