Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural girl children worked full-time in the fields or as servants by the age of 15 . |
| 2 | The precedent is being established that Community law , whether this takes the form of Commission Directives or of judgments by the Court of Justice , overrides national law if the two are in conflict . |
| 3 | Focus is changed by squeezing the lens with muscles ( or in chameleons by moving the lens forwards or backwards , as in a man-made camera ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps consistent wins in the obedience ring or in trials by a breeder 's dogs inspires you to want to own a great working dog ; or perhaps the reason is just recommendation from a trusted friend . |
| 5 | The exercise price is 100% of the value of the debentures bought , payable in Swedish kroner or in dollars by arrangement with Citibank Citicorp . |
| 6 | Store wooden spoons , whisks , colanders , sieves in containers or from hooks by the worktop or cooker top , wherever you need them most , and keep oil , vinegars , condiments , herbs and garlic near salad bowls . |
| 7 | What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing . |
| 8 | Obviously Ted and I were n't always around to scrutinize the intricate excitements of this new love , especially as Dad and Eva spent many evenings over the river in London proper , going to the theatre to see controversial plays , to German films or to lectures by Marxists , and to high-class parties . |
| 9 | Many cemeteries have almost been destroyed , either through neglect or by attacks by vengeful or greedy Czechs after the war , looking for gold said to have been left behind by Jews and expelled Sudeten Germans . |
| 10 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 11 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 12 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |
| 13 | A palette with 256 colours allows simple selection of colours for lines by clicking the left mouse button and for fills by clicking the right mouse button . |
| 14 | Orders for Busy Lizzies must be received by 25 March ( delivery mid-late May ) , for Polyanthus by 19 April ( delivery mid-late July ) and for pansies by 15 May ( delivery early-mid August ) . |
| 15 | Grants for the purchase of drawings were made by the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and for books by the Friends of the National Libraries . |
| 16 | The budget for grants has been increased by £10 million and for loans by £30 million , increasing the total amount from £228 million to £268 million . |
| 17 | This occurred within firms through directorships and through families by intermarriage . |
| 18 | Sylvia Pedder from Headington in Oxford uses a wheelchair and despite efforts by British Rail to update their trains , she says often she has to travel for hours on end on her own . |
| 19 | The event was won by Ben Moon , and despite attempts by the organisers to keep details of those participating secret , the BMC quickly learnt of Moon 's involvement . |
| 20 | The Environmental Protection Act requires the installation of new pollution abatement equipment , and despite assurances by David Trippier , Minister of State for the Environment , the federation is concerned that neither HM Pollution Inspectorate nor local authorities have adequate staff or expertise to advise individual companies on how the legislation will affect them . |
| 21 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
| 22 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 23 | Ravhele 's forced resignation , amid allegations of corruption , was the culmination of six weeks of popular demonstrations and of strikes by public servants . |
| 24 | Strikes , many of them " indefinite " , were staged for wage increases and against redundancies by public-sector workers , private bank employees , Sao Paulo metal workers , dockers at all major ports and workers at power plants . |
| 25 | Degas Sculptures written by Anne Pingeot and with plates by the distinguished photographer Frank Horvat , is handsomely designed , exquisitely printed and numbingly expensive . |
| 26 | The lavishly illustrated volume is an introduction into the architectural history of Berlin 's wider surroundings , published in association with the federal government of the Land Brandenburg and with texts by various authors on not only architectural aspects of this part of former Prussia . |
| 27 | The last , edited by Evelyn Weiss and with contributions by a number of other authors , is published to coincide with an exhibition travelling from Barcelona ( until end January 1993 ) , to Cologne ( from February ) and Nuremberg ( from June ) . |
| 28 | The book , edited by Michael Brandt and including contributions by Rainer Kahsnitz and Hans Jakob Schuffels , will come out in January to coincide with the exhibition of the Gospel itself in Hildesheim ( 15 January until 28 February 1993 ) . |
| 29 | He thought it was possible to seek to produce more lasting ties of unity among and within societies by educating a rational group of leaders . |
| 30 | Financial , as opposed to commodity , futures were innovated in currencies by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) in 1972 and in bonds by the Chicago Board of Trade ( CBOT ) in 1976 . |