Example sentences of "[noun] by [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Sellier ( 1978 ) attributes the generally late establishment of collective agreements in France ( only since the mid-1960s for the bulk of the private sector ) partly to the association by employers of workers and unions with revolutionary ideologies , but also to the marked weakness and slow development of employer organisations — the state long remaining the main partner of the unions . |
| 2 | But seasoned commuters now seem to accept disruption by terrorists as part of everyday life . |
| 3 | The rioting broke out in Washington Heights , northern Manhattan , following the shooting by police on July 3 of José Garcia , an immigrant from the Dominican Republic . |
| 4 | There is also substantial private investment by employers in training for their staff which the Government encourage through the manpower training scheme . |
| 5 | Visit to Falklands by relatives of war dead |
| 6 | Admittedly , the lowest levels of the overlying limestone date back to the Eocene , but this merely proves long-continued subsidence : horizons of land fauna indicate interruption by periods of emergence . |
| 7 | Captain Cook discovered New South Wales in 1770 and in that same year , hack in Britain , Lord North became Prime Minister but strong opposition by Colonialists in America to the imposition of tea-tax , developed in 1773 , which led to the Boston Harbour incident in the following year , and eventually to the American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1782 . |
| 8 | The Commission issued a warning on Nov. 16 , for the first time , against what it called price-fixing by banks on interest rates-having frequently intervened over the commissions charged by banks on non-banking business . |
| 9 | There has been relatively little research by sociologists into child abuse . |
| 10 | What brought Othman 's reign to a close was the outbreak of mutiny in garrison towns in Egypt and Mesopotamia , culminating in a march by mutineers on Othman 's capital at Medina , where some of them later murdered him . |
| 11 | Previously many historians perceived crime as abnormal and peripheral , fit only for study by specialists in deviance . |
| 12 | But a more comprehensive study by doctors from Oxford has produced no evidence to support this . |
| 13 | A STUDY by doctors in Vancouver has raised questions about the accuracy of tests used to show that infants were murdered with drug-overdoses at Toronto 's Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 14 | A study by ornithologists from Heidelberg University , published in the journal Nature , finds that blackcaps ' migratory routes have changed dramatically in recent years , taking them 1,500 kilometres further north in winter . |
| 15 | The discovery that a gene is responsible for all this misery follows a study by researchers at St Mary 's Hospital Medical School , London . |
| 16 | Nevertheless I do not believe that philosophy is an appropriate subject for study by pupils at school . |
| 17 | It was cured in borax by wholesalers from Chicago in 1892 . |
| 18 | There was some attempt by friends of Highlander to purchase some of the books etc. at the auction but the buildings and most of the moveable assets were lost . |
| 19 | He also continued to demonstrate his early understanding of classical authors by translations of Lucretius ( 1912 ) and his masterly verse translation of Virgil 's Aeneid ( 1928 ) . |
| 20 | At Great Yarmouth fishing by drifters for herring has ended since the shoals of these fish are scarce now . |
| 21 | These results show that there is inappropriate staining by antibodies to blood group antigens in the biliary epithelium of most PSC patients compared with normal and disease controls , and that similar inappropriate staining is seen in the colonic epithelium . |
| 22 | On the other hand , entry by intermediaries to currency sectors has been facilitated by the advent of swaps and improvements in technology . |
| 23 | Mark Gorevan , a 26-year-old businessman , of Eaton Avenue , Rhyl , North Wales , was remanded in custody until next Tuesday by magistrates at Prestatyn . |
| 24 | This is followed on the afternoon of Shrove Tuesday by processions of individuals in fancy dress — adults and lots of children . |
| 25 | In New York , gifts of pictures by artists to critics may follow a favourable review , though a critic is likely to refuse payment , even for a catalogue introduction , from a dealer . |
| 26 | Six finalists will be chosen from the pictures by representatives from Hairflair and Supersoft and all six will be invited to London for the final judging . |
| 27 | A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 28 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 29 | Around 50,000 giant clams were bred on Orpheus Island in Queensland by scientists from James Cook University , and approximately 4,000 have been transported by the Royal Australian Navy as they were not getting enough sunlight and water circulation . |
| 30 | The union was invited to talks by BR after Monday 's vote by members of RMT , the biggest rail union , to strike in protest at the threat of compulsory job losses . |