Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Bill would establish a new constitutional settlement for Scotland , create a Parliament with a fixed four-year term , provide for elections by a system of proportional representation , establish a Bill of Rights , create the office of ombudsman , give to the Parliament revenue-raising responsibility , entrench these arrangements in such a way that they could not be changed without the consent of both the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments and provide that all Scottish domestic affairs should be the responsibility of a Parliament sitting in Edinburgh , reserving foreign affairs , defence and large-scale economics to Westminster . |
| 2 | Often ‘ kids walk into fields by mistake during spraying . ’ |
| 3 | Having said that , this aggressive , attacking style has been used on country records for 30-odd years — listen to sessions by Glen Campbell , James Burton , Chet , Fred Carter Jr. , Wayne Moss and the like , from back in the early '60s . |
| 4 | BROOD parasites and their hosts are thought to engage in a coevolutionary arms race in which parasitism selects for adaptive defences by the host ( such as egg rejection ) , which in turn select for counter-adaptations by the parasite ( such as egg mimicry ) . |
| 5 | The vast majority of cases begin as applications by individuals against their own states . |
| 6 | It is not unusual to find adult education centres , in the middle of provincial inner cities , for example , in which the majority of the provision is still a testimony to white , petit-bourgeois aspirations and hobbies , peopled by students who travel into classes by car from outside the immediate neighbourhood . |
| 7 | Viruses multiply inside cells by hijacking the cells ' own molecular machinery and forcing it into the service of the viral life-cycle . |
| 8 | In recent years this older element seems to have become more prominent ; they are often smartly dressed and travel to games by car or on scheduled train services away from police surveillance , organized in gangs with names like the Inter-City Firm , the Main Line Service Crew , or the Anti-Personnel Firm . |
| 9 | We can analyse remuneration policies between different areas , again using ADI , or look at increases by employee or group over time . |
| 10 | The road then takes on connotations of purpose but without ever becoming fixed ; journeys by land alternate with journeys by water . |
| 11 | In this latter case we get to simples by a process of ‘ Abstraction ’ . |
| 12 | Refer to judges by their full title ( see pp. 64–65 ) . |
| 13 | The other major problem is that many applications still refer to fonts by ID number rather than by name , Aldus PageMaker is an honourable exception . |
| 14 | The ‘ disturbances ’ refer to activities by supporters of Tibetan independence in Lhasa in 1988 . |
| 15 | IN CASES OF EJEs ; Express your concern over the reported deaths of individuals in custody ( refer to victims by name , as above ) ; explain that the first step to prevent such killings would be to undertake thorough and impartial investigations ; urge that a commission of inquiry be established in accordance with the United Nations Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal , Arbitrary and Summary Executions ( 1989 ) , and that those responsible be brought to justice . |
| 16 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 17 | By the way , barristers usually talk about cases by identifying themselves with their lay client . |
| 18 | Librarians who think this way , and who dispose of books by the skipful because they do not look appealing enough for ‘ face-on ’ display , have the excuse that almost all publishers regard the dust-jacket as the main way of selling a book . |
| 19 | Thanks and toast to hosts by the other family |
| 20 | At the Blackpool Floorcoverings Exhibition , Stoddard Templeton were presented with an annual award for best service to retailers by the National Association of Retail Furnishers . |
| 21 | Different principles apply to awards by juries , which are used only rarely in civil cases , usually in defamation cases . |
| 22 | You move between screens by clicking with the right mouse button on the portion you want to view , and drag the application windows you see here to the portion of the virtual desktop you want them to reside in . |
| 23 | The 1980s ended not only with disputes about an unprecedented governmental curb on broadcasts by Irish extremists , but with a reconstruction of the broadcasting system that put in question the very principles of traditional ‘ public service broadcasting ’ . |
| 24 | Acting together , the two groups serve as retractors by telescoping the abdomen . |
| 25 | It met such opposition in Jamaica that Wilberforce was persuaded to withdraw it and settle for registries by colonial legislation . |
| 26 | A final possibility is that individuals sometimes cope with difficulties by self-narcotising ; this is something that is done on a fairly wide scale by man . |
| 27 | This in turn produces worry , further fear of fear , which leads to yet further increase in symptoms by further turning on your stress tap . |
| 28 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 29 | The arrests occur amid allegations by Pakistan 's leading suspected drugs trafficker , Haji Iqbal Baig , against a number of government ministers . |
| 30 | damage to tyres by breaking , punctures , cuts or bursts |