Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILK producers are well on course to hit quota by the year-end , according to Milk Marketing Board head of quotas Huw Rees . |
| 2 | As you are aware I have been exploring ways in which the Regional Council can try to encourage investment by the private sector in the provision of new industrial land and buildings . |
| 3 | This point ( Wojtas 1982 ) occurs in a description of a new research centre for Police Studies at Strathclyde University , which is ‘ to ask whether anyone is doing research on the police , what degree of co-operation they have met … and to encourage research by the police themselves ’ . |
| 4 | The presence of tattoo shops , ‘ topless ’ discothèques which offered dancing and music almost twenty-four hours a day were a reminder that Copenhagen was an active and important port , yet the overall effect was charming and romantic as flowers spilled out of window-boxes and the cafés and restaurants vied with each other to attract custom by the quality of their food and their individual décor . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the occasional problems of delay , inefficiency or incompetence , overcharging , unhelpfulness , inconsiderateness and lack of communication were felt to be of sufficient concern to demand redress by the professions . |
| 6 | When the library opens in 1995/6 there will be 100,000 volumes accessible digitally , but there are also plans to provide access by the year 2000 to a wide range of multimedia resources from sound recordings , to moving pictures , to radio programmes , to television programmes , to still images ( Fresko 1993 ) . |
| 7 | Other information such as behaviour and home circumstances may be included in the record but , if not entirely factual , it should be sufficiently well founded to bear scrutiny by the parents . |
| 8 | If the client is dissatisfied , the right to request certification by the Law Society may be pursued . |
| 9 | The order followed reports that Union Carbide was attempting to transfer shares in its subsidiary to a trust for building a hospital for victims of the disaster , in order to forestall seizure by the court . |
| 10 | After a while João got told to go work by the angry girl . |
| 11 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 12 | It is in effect impossible to eliminate discretion by the formulation of rules ( Hill 1972 , Ch. 4 ) . |
| 13 | One of the hazards of going to games by the bus load is the tendency to drink beer by the gut load beforehand . |
| 14 | JOHN Major , of course , is known to set store by the ‘ feelgood factor ’ occasioned by English sporting successes . |
| 15 | Controlled by computer and battery-powered hydraulics , they push or pull like pistons to damp movement by the walls . |
| 16 | If you book through a Travel Agent , you should ensure that you pay the agent in sufficient time to allow payment to reach Cosmos by the due date . |
| 17 | On the other hand , cost reduction has not been sufficient to avoid censure by the MMC . |
| 18 | In 1950 the Court had held these ‘ declarations to constitute recognition by the Union of the continuance of the obligations under the Mandate and not a mere indication of future conduct of that government . ’ |
| 19 | Bell says that a contract of employment is not a contract uberrimae fidei so as to require disclosure by the employee of his own misconduct , either before he is taken into employment or during the course of his employment . |
| 20 | All that remained for theory was to explore the details of determination while avoiding the tendency of bourgeois ideology to obscure determination by the material base . |
| 21 | The Prophet , having missed his first killing strike , realised he would have to move fast to avoid capture by the trap set for him by his hated enemy . |
| 22 | Prejudice against deaf drivers nevertheless persists and continues to require intervention by the BDA on their behalf at regular intervals . |
| 23 | A draft constitution , prepared by a commission consisting of a majority of members drawn from the ruling Seychelles People 's Progressive Front ( SPPF ) , failed to win approval by the necessary 60 per cent majority in a referendum held on Nov. 15 . |
| 24 | In this way , mechanisms of resistance may be circumvented by minimizing exposure of platinum to other cellular components such as thiols and by the formation of platinum DNA adducts which are sufficiently novel to escape repair by the normal mechanisms . |
| 25 | In 1968 they were raised to their present position to escape inundation by the rising waters of a man-made lake . |
| 26 | York Theatre Royal has applied to the city council to install a lift to aid access by the disabled . |
| 27 | There are , therefore , a few sub-contractors who may choose to work exclusively in this sector and continue to avoid detection by the Inland Revenue . |
| 28 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 29 | He reveals that in fact he is Szendrey , but that he has had to change his name in order to escape persecution by the Communists . |
| 30 | Apparently the mill only had a short working life as a corn mill , having been turned over to saw milling by the 1920s . |