Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escaping capture , he led the 1,500-strong " Prestes Column " on a two-year 25,000-km march through Brazil 's interior , fighting off or eluding attacks by government forces and the private armies of landlords , while seeking in vain to enlist peasant support . |
| 2 | If , therefore , a person occupies or uses land by licence of the owner with the paper title and his licence has not been duly determined , he can not be treated as having been in " adverse possession " … |
| 3 | ( c ) The requirement of reasonableness Part I of UCTA 1977 permits a party to restrict or exclude liability by reference to the requirement of reasonableness in the following cases : ( 1 ) Negligent damage to property ( s2(2) ) . |
| 4 | If the wife were to pledge her husband 's credit in these circumstances , she would be guilty of obtaining by false pretences or obtaining credit by fraud under the then law ( now obtaining by deception — Theft Act 1968 ) . |
| 5 | In practice , if there is any doubt whether it is appropriate to charge theft or obtaining property by deception , it will be natural to charge the latter ; and in our opinion it would be wise to do so , because this will be a much easier offence to establish than is the present offence of obtaining by false pretences , as it will be unnecessary to show that the owner was deceived into intentionally passing the ownership but sufficient to show that he was tricked into parting with the possession . |
| 6 | A Commando was therefore not unlike an infantry battalion but had only five small rifle or fighting Troops by comparison with the battalion 's four companies , each with over 120 all ranks . |
| 7 | The consumption of oxygen or oxidizing agents by water arising from the presence of reducing substances , usually organic , is of value in the assessment of trade effluents and sewage but is not of great importance for process waters . |
| 8 | Many are also self-fertile , or form seed by agamospermy , in which diploid embryos appear in seeds without benefit of cross-fertilization . |
| 9 | One important factor whch applied in that case would not apply to a case considered under s3 : s13 of the Act , which defines the classes of the clauses to which the Act applies , provides that to the extent that ss2 and 5-7 of the Act prevent the exclusion or restriction of liability , they " also prevent excluding or restricting liability by reference to terms and notices which exclude or restrict the relevant obligation or duty " . |
| 10 | Living rooms that also have to act as office or work room by day ( and more and more people elect to work at home if they can these days ) can still perform both functions with comparative case . |
| 11 | Tenure guarantees reduce the rational basis for worker and union opposition to moves to automation or work redesign by management . |
| 12 | For example , rather than cover item by item the information given to new residents and staff with questions such as ‘ Do you tell them where the post office/bed room/toilet/ etc is ? ’ , it was necessary to ask the broader question of ‘ What information is given to newcomers ? ’ , resulting in a discussion about an informative brochure that everybody received on arrival at the EPH . |
| 13 | Although the London Shopping Digest appears in copies of Ideal Home in London and the Home Counties only , this book will give all readers up and down the country the names and addresses of companies that supply goods by mail order — it 's essential reading . |
| 14 | Once a country that forbade religion by constitution , Albania is now being flooded by all kinds of organisations that try to convert people . |
| 15 | Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months . |
| 16 | Carlson was aware of conflicting reports : that Bourbollon had been assassinated earlier in the day ; that he had committed suicide rather than face capture by freedom fighters . |
| 17 | There were therefore two different types of Viennese piano actions that existed side by side for more than 20 years . |
| 18 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 19 | than playing cards by torchlight in a raid ? |
| 20 | And he had no inclination to spend his off-duty time working in the jam factory that ran cheek by jowl with the camp ; he was n't in need of extra money . |
| 21 | Sometimes when the changes are slower it can be more difficult because allowance has to be made for the natural variations that occur hour by hour in an illness even without any treatment . |
| 22 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 23 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 24 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 25 | The first three Gospels , Matthew , Mark and Luke , if placed side by side , are seen , at one and the same time , to be both similar and dissimilar . |
| 26 | The neural networking technique , developed in the 1970s , mimics the biological neural network , enabling a system to ‘ learn ’ by example , to recognise patterns and data and to classify data by association . |
| 27 | 7 Decide in which area personal contacts will be of most use and make contact by telephone . |
| 28 | They lie on a mattress in the living room and make love by candlelight . |
| 29 | The original method of producing acrylic sheet , which involved casting a thickened and part-polymerized methyl methacrylate syrup in plate glass cells and completing polymerization by heating in an oven , was devised in the 1930s . |
| 30 | The marsupial ( pouched ) and placental ( womb-bearing ) mammals had separated , and lived side by side . |