Example sentences of "[adj] by the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was perfectly entitled to do this by the statutes of the English Faculty ; but there being , at that date , no one in Oxford who could teach it , Lewis had to organize a tutor from Aberystwyth to be brought to Oxford once a week by train . |
| 2 | His diagnostic task is somehow to differentiate between the information he is receiving which is false and that which is valid and follow this by the selection of a remedial strategy . |
| 3 | They are enabled in this by the lack of language controls to describe offerings . |
| 4 | They argued that enterprises would not reduce their prices but simply would accumulate stocks of finished goods , financing this by the issue of bills of exchange . |
| 5 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 6 | To include in teacher training ‘ respect for others ’ as a first principle and to support this by the development of teaching materials and activities which foster a practical understanding of its significance |
| 7 | The following day we explored Bragança 's castle , which is superbly preserved and houses a military museum , showing Portugal 's colonial past and the role played in this by the menfolk of Bragança . |
| 8 | Among a certain type he invited violence but was protected from this by the proximity of Ricky Stride whose physique gave him the appearance of a bodyguard . |
| 9 | He managed this by the spring of 1989 , though the registrar , Claude Brisset , is ‘ 99.9% sure ’ of having seen no further application . |
| 10 | You can generally tell this by the sort of questions you are asked ; |
| 11 | When there are several poles and zeros , the strength of the spectrum at a particular pulsatance ο is obtained by taking the product of the lengths of the various vectors drawn from the zeros to the point on the imaginary axis and dividing this by the product of the lengths of the several vectors drawn from the poles to the same point on the imaginary axis . |
| 12 | They have been helped to do this by the introduction of so-called ‘ call-off ’ contracts set up by Purchasing — which is part of AEA Estates — to enable them to place orders . |
| 13 | The bill appears to guarantee this by the allocation of 8.9 per cent of income for the development of Scottish sport , with a further share of the overall allocation to UK sport being awarded to the UK sports commission , when it is established . |
| 14 | While , as suggested earlier , the different time horizons of elected politicians and civil servants allow scope for the fragmentation of policy-making and group interests , limits are placed on this by the openness of the British state to organized interests . |
| 15 | Er we are confirmed in our reservations about this by the results of the regional census study as I noted in my brief commentary N Y three . |
| 16 | Divide this by the width of the fabric to give the number of widths of fabric required . |
| 17 | The women achieve this by the performances of countless religious rituals of their own which are observed for the welfare of their male protectors in their families . |
| 18 | They had a personal stake in improving their own incomes ( and they were aided in this by the growth of white-collar and public-sector trade unions ) , and they had a professional commitment to improve the lot of the clients of their services . |
| 19 | Multiplying this by the number of pages is enough to show a rough total , which should tally adequately with tutors ' estimates and impressions ( since they wo n't count the individual words either ) . |
| 20 | From the government 's point of view , the settlement complemented the ‘ Social Contract ’ between unions and state ; it accorded the unions considerably more leeway than the joint management-union training scheme proposed in 1972 by the Commission on Industrial Relations , with the stated purpose of ‘ improving industrial relations ’ through corporatism in the workplace , while setting limits on the scope and nature of the expansion . |
| 21 | BLIND people whose lives have been made easier by the work of a Darlington woman gathered this weekend to say thank you . |
| 22 | The reshuffle was made easier by the decision of John Wakeham , formerly Energy Secretary , not to stand for re-election . |
| 23 | Things are not made any easier by the removal for many people of ‘ organized ’ production as a central constitutive experience of their social being . |
| 24 | These discussions were not , perhaps , made any easier by the change of ministers at the DES in September 1981 when Sir Keith Joseph became Secretary of State and William Waldegrave his junior minister with responsibility for higher education . |
| 25 | An understanding of communication in the context of public relations is made easier by the construction of simple , diagrammatic ‘ models ’ . |
| 26 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 27 | In our case , this task was made easier by the presence of many of these top professionals on the Wirral Drug Abuse Committee , the sponsors of our research . |
| 28 | Difficult ideas can be made easier by the use of animation . |
| 29 | Technically the task of the programme designer is made easier by the use of training skills and declarative programming languages . |
| 30 | Political work was made easier by the number of elected bodies ; in addition to borough and county councils there were , after 1894 , rural and urban district councils and the various ad hoc boards , the most important of which were the Boards of Guardians and the School Boards . |