Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pasture is ploughed up or overloaded by nitrogen input , organic nitrogen is oxidised and the highly soluble nitrate ion is washed quickly through the soil and into rivers or groundwater . |
| 2 | For the first time a tally was kept of the number of items issued to users or consulted by Map Library staff in answering letter enquiries . |
| 3 | These can be preset on the ground , or operated by radio control as in Belgian Raoul Fosset 's system . |
| 4 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 5 | This relation could be maintained , or replaced by tax revenue ( 7 ) bearing particularly on the rentiers . |
| 6 | Nothing was knocked off or bent by track work . |
| 7 | ( ii ) Intracellular labelling with fluorescein-coated latex microparticles can be preceded or followed by surface labelling using rhodamine-conjugated Con A ( TMRTC — Con A , Polysciences ) . |
| 8 | Between the two there is a grey area where the size of the firm is likely to be the determining factor as to whether decisions should be unanimous or taken by majority vote . |
| 9 | Some forms of credit , but not others , were either subject to direct government restriction on lending ( terms control ) or encouraged by tax relief . |
| 10 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 11 | The legal duties and control structures imposed or sanctioned by company law shape the criteria by which companies exercise social decision-making power . |
| 12 | Unfortunately even where fitted , dpc 's can easily be fractured or by-passed by ground movement , bad workmanship or by the plain ignorance of builders or owners . |
| 13 | It would be a misnomer , he claims , to describe something as conversion which was effected by fear or prompted by material gain . |
| 14 | As a result they have also been trapped into importing food , an operation with considerable potential for losses , although ameliorated by exchange rate policy . |
| 15 | As the situation is so delicate and as negotiations with the CODESA committees are currently under way , will he not — please not — do anything to damage that process by precipitate action on sanctions ? |
| 16 | Hitherto social mobility research has tried to understand how men move up and down the social ladder by looking at them as isolated individuals , neither helped nor hindered by family life . |
| 17 | In outlining a feminist model for infertility crisis counselling , Alison Solomon says that often feminists do not differentiate between the suffering caused by infertility and that caused by infertility treatment . |
| 18 | In contrast to the aforementioned pol III genes , U6 snRNA genes from vertebrates , although transcribed by RNA polymerase III , are controlled by promoter elements resembling those of typical pol II genes . |
| 19 | No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder . |
| 20 | But now scientists believe the root cause of Germany 's problems could simply be drier weather , albeit aggravated by acid deposition and by the growing tendency for forests , like farmland , to be planted as monocultures . |
| 21 | To some extent , then , kin can take on the status of friends , perhaps involving special kinds of obligations and pressures , but also subject to the influence of factors such as distance and the preference of the couples themselves , rather than determined by blood relationship . |
| 22 | Capital expenditure of £54.9m was more than covered by cash flow generated from operati |
| 23 | It does not take into account that in a group of nursery children each will be happy to play with the others ' toys until stopped by peer group pressure . |
| 24 | Their clover-leaf form was shaped nearly 5,000 years ago from massive boulders moved and stacked by muscle power . |
| 25 | To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 26 | The vesicle preparation was diluted 1:4 with NaCl-Tris buffer and examined by electron microscopy using : ( i ) Negative staining with sodium phosphotungstate as described by Tall et al , and ( ii ) Platinum coating of vesicles on a carbon free hydrophilic grid as described by Huang . |
| 27 | If plagued by pollen beetle , try planting the edible-leaved Chrysanthemum coronarium , ( chop suey greens or shungiku ) . |
| 28 | Large packages may be unloaded onto pallets and moved by fork-lift truck . |
| 29 | Nothing that makes you happier than a child 's Christmas toy , bought in the land of plenty , broken and forgotten by Christmas night , discarded , swept up , thrown away ; some unbiodegradable bit of plastic , moulded into partial or sentimental shape . |
| 30 | A guest in the newly opened Grand amsterdam was surprised and impressed by breakfast service . |