Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore difficult to compare products by packaging alone . |
| 2 | How much design effort is needed in the different areas will not be clear at this stage but unless the system is very simple there are bound to be problems of overlap and of how far to arrange sub-teams by discipline , by function or by problem ( Singleton , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Although subsidies will be available on sales of extra coal to displace imports by power generators , ministers have firmly rejected curbs on other fuels , including the ‘ dash for gas ’ by power generators , to shield coal from the effects of competition . |
| 4 | The complete list is printed inside the cover of every certificate , and the following are samples only : rights of common , customary rights , public rights , right of sheepwalk , rights of way , rights of water , liability to repair highways by reason of tenure , liability to repair the chancel of any church , liability to repair embankments and sea or river walls , rights under local land charges , rights of fishing and sporting , manorial and seignorial rights of all descriptions ( until extinguished ) , leases for any term not exceeding 21 years granted at a rent without taking a fine , etc ( s70(1) ( a ) — ( k ) ) . |
| 5 | Pérez de Cuéllar on Aug. 13 , and again on Aug. 17 , dissociated the UN from any attempt at this stage to impose sanctions by force , but Bush on Aug. 14 reaffirmed his view that the USA was acting within its legal rights , and called for clarification of the position of the permanent Security Council members , in advance of a possible further resolution . |
| 6 | The Government support the efforts of the United Nations Secretary-General to encourage moves by Indonesia and Portugal to resolve their differences over East Timor . |
| 7 | For Nicholson , success in this quarter is doubly gratifying — displaying his ability to attract women by means other than looks . |
| 8 | Francis Lyster , 34 , of no fixed abode , was yesterday remanded in custody until April 13 by Darlington magistrates on two charges of obtaining services by deception , one of obtaining property by deception and one of attempting to obtain services by deception . |
| 9 | As a result employers came to reappraise their previous strategy of attempting to contain unions by means of active opposition since that was more likely to result in increased government intervention to facilitate recognition . |
| 10 | Priority , as between successive mortgagees of shares , is determined by the date at which the mortgages were effected , as a company is under no obligation to accept notices by mortgagees . |
| 11 | This may have been due to the tendency of the former to attract in young people , leading to net gains by migration among 15–24-year-olds ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 12 | Powerful search routines may then be summoned for use with your database , and statistical analyses can be carried out to compare catches by angler 's names . |
| 13 | A declining number of people continued to sew shoes by hand in their cottages or little workshops right until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Search routines to find maps with particular names , to sort maps by type ( e.g. point or polygon based ) , to access the map tiling system and to select the part of the sheet to view have also been created . |
| 15 | There is no evidence of when the committal order was drawn up , although Mrs. Butler 's solicitors were assured that this would happen in sufficient time for them to receive copies by fax later that afternoon . |
| 16 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 17 | All children need to be given the chance to create things by means of the new technologies . |
| 18 | Harry had eaten a square of the chocolate and somehow felt bound to answer questions by way of thanks . |
| 19 | On July 13th 1803 John Wing reported that one six-bedded ward would be fit to receive patients by August 7th . |
| 20 | Competition forces the owners to replace men by machines . |
| 21 | This decline in individual consumption was exacerbated by increasingly fierce international competition , which forced companies to replace men by machines to raise their productivity . |
| 22 | After the Second World War , astronomers at Jodrell Bank began to track meteors by radar , and Alcock was one of these called in to make simultaneous visual sightings . |
| 23 | This example points to an underlying trend in the English language : to assume that male is the norm and to define women by reference to their sexuality . |
| 24 | Although it is convenient to stain sections by Dickson 's method before microprobe analysis so that the mineral phases can easily be distinguished , Sommer ( 1975 ) showed that microprobe determinations of iron in carbonates stained with potassium ferricyanide showed depletion by an order of magnitude compared with unstained crystals . |
| 25 | The city was fortified and was able to repel raids by pirates and a siege by the Saracens in 866–7 . |
| 26 | The masks are only the latest in a number of measures in the effort to eliminate deaths by tiger attacks . |
| 27 | At the same time , however , anyone attending the play after it opened at London 's Court Theatre in 1906 could hardly fail to learn a fair amount about the young discipline of bacteriology and about attempts to treat illnesses by immunotherapy . |
| 28 | Aiming to identify the patients dying specifically from their liver disease and to avoid biases by time dependent variables ( blood transfusion requirements within the 72 hours ) , statistical analysis was performed on the 91 patients still alive after 72 hours and after exclusion of the patients dying from other causes than liver failure or exsanguination ( eight ) . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 30 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |