Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The golden eagle , at one time persecuted to near extinction by game keepers , is now a strictly protected bird . |
| 2 | But before doing so , it should be noted that although the discussion so far has treated procedure by writ or summons in the High Court as the relevant alternative to Ord. 53 procedure , this is not the only possible alternative . |
| 3 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 4 | These animals are just a handful from the diversity of the natural world and have been hounded to near extinction by trade , disappearing habitat and hunting . |
| 5 | Officials estimate that supply has exceeded demand by £7.5 billion since the beginning of 1988 . |
| 6 | The study , conducted by Liverpool University for the National Rivers Authority , Ministry of Agriculture and Greenpeace has revealed contamination by mercury , pesticide residues and toxic chemicals including PCBs . |
| 7 | They must , at the same time , provide some immediate help to the main sufferers , particularly the unemployed , and take measures designed to reduce unemployment by investment in those areas which can produce some reduction in unemployment . |
| 8 | Anybody who has been involved in community organising will have experience of situations where the ( actual or perceived ) formality of the meeting has restricted participation by people who may be active and vociferous before and/or after the meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 10 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
| 11 | The seemingly constant serenity of the invertebrate aquarium mirrors the harmony of the coral reef where masses of weird and wonderful creatures appear to live cheek by jowl quite happily together . |
| 12 | Similarly , Article 13 is expressly designed to allow service by post unless the law of the state of destination contains what the commentary describes as a ‘ positive prohibition ’ of such service , a requirement which is quite unrealistic in the context of the legal tradition of many countries which would actually take grave exception to such service . |
| 13 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 14 | Sarah , 31 , a member of the Surrey Union Hunt , claims she is a target because she has filmed violence by hunt saboteurs . |
| 15 | A statement from the new pressure group says clubs throughout the Foyle area feel that even with the continuing decline both in Irish stocks and water quality , the Commission has allowed over-fishing by netting to continue and is not adequately funded to deter or prevent poaching and the continued degradation of water quality throughout the system . |
| 16 | The woman cyclist was another object of fearful contemplation , and there were snide allusions to the improper ‘ rational costumes ’ women were adopting to facilitate travel by bike , as well as their recklessness in traffic . |
| 17 | The newspaper would need to boost circulation by 60pc just to break even . |
| 18 | Since such standards are generally designed to prevent harm by accumulation , violations consist of rule-breaking which could lead to harm , as well as rule-breaking where actual harm is demonstrated ( Reiss , 1980:30 ) . |
| 19 | However , idioms also tend to resist interruption by material which , as long as it remains ‘ outside ’ the idiom , is semantically compatible : |
| 20 | Although I do not develop this aspect of the analysis here , I also suggest that the images or metaphors which are applied to define racism by analogy hold the key to understanding people 's emotional investment in antiracist positions . |
| 21 | A commitment was also made to reach agreement by March 1991 on phasing out duty-free allowances . |
| 22 | Comment : Sometimes mistakenly done to create commonality by people who assume that others share their grievances . |
| 23 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 24 | Private-sector employers were instructed to follow suit by Aug. 11 . |
| 25 | Many of their innovative ideas lost money and failed to win acceptance by customers . |
| 26 | I would like to see justification by faith working its way through our fellowships , enabling us to accept one another on the basis of our fellowship in Christ . |
| 27 | But what seemed to fall rather short of perfect innocence was a case of ‘ attempting to obtain money by threats of violence ’ where two youths had sent a menacing note to the old lady next door — ‘ Unless you provide £500 in old notes … you will be shot by revolver ’ — thereby reducing her to hysterics . |
| 28 | Jordan also asked for two offences of attempting to obtain money by deception to be taken into consideration . |
| 29 | Parvis Yousefi was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court yesterday of four offences of attempting to obtain a pecuniary advantage , five of obtaining property by deception and attempting to obtain property by deception . |
| 30 | Anne Marriner , 23 , admitted attempting to obtain property by deception and two counts of criminal damage all committed on the same day during January . |