Example sentences of "[conj] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be so if the same work is done by fewer employees or by no employees at all . |
| 2 | In many sectors , large-scale reconstruction may be limited by failure to reach agreement on the necessary legislation , or by the problems of implementing such legislation . |
| 3 | It can not be regarded as a matter of indifference whether the unfilled portions of the world shall be peopled by Eastern races , by negroes , by Slavonic or other Eastern European peoples , by the Latin races , or by the races of Northern Europe . |
| 4 | Global ozone depletion by CFCs may be offset in part by natural effects or by the effects of other pollutants . |
| 5 | These are prepared by Counsel in a Court of Session action or by the solicitors in a Sheriff Court action , on the basis of the evidence on the insurance file . |
| 6 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 7 | Treaty or by the Acts of Accession ; again such conflict should be avoided . |
| 8 | It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground . |
| 9 | The headmaster was Morgan J , known as Morgan J or by the boys as Too Long and Too Loose . |
| 10 | In so far as the poor did not crowd into the old central districts abandoned by their betters , their dwellings were built by small speculative builders , often little more than artisans , or by the constructors of those gaunt , overflowing tenement blocks expressively known in German as ‘ rent barracks ’ ( Mietskasernen ) . |
| 11 | Information about the employees will be requested either by the accountants in compiling their report , or by the lawyers in their pre-contract enquiries and disclosure against warranties . |
| 12 | The negotiations were not helped by American diplomats in Cairo , who covertly supported Nasser , or by the machinations of the US oil companies operating in the Middle East . |
| 13 | It was certainly much wider than the definition required by the local authority for an official notification of a violent incident or by the police for pressing charges of actual bodily harm . |
| 14 | Such detail is often produced in special ways and by special means , with constantly developing equipment , though not necessarily developed by SFX departments or companies , or by the kinds of specialists who win Oscars and Oscar nominations in this field . |
| 15 | The whole operation was for Reagan 's sake , as well as the hostages ' ; it was a present for him , preferably one to be delivered by Christmas , or by the State of the Union address in January , or by the elections in November . |
| 16 | Most of the men around the Shah were tied to him by fear , by devotion or by the tentacles of corruption . |
| 17 | Yet we must also simply learn to accept our status as mere fragments of total nature who can not help sometimes being overcome by forces we can not control , whether of a physical or of a psychological nature , or by the assaults of irrational men . |
| 18 | ( b ) Every partner must account to his co-partners for his private profits This is recognised in s29 of the Partnership Act : ( 1 ) Every partner must account to the firm for any benefit derived by him without the consent of the other partners from any transaction concerning the partnership , or from any use by him of the partnership property name or business connexion. ( 2 ) This section applies also to transactions undertaken after a partnership has been dissolved by the death of a partner , and before the affairs thereof have been completely wound up , either by any surviving partner or by the representatives of the deceased partner . |
| 19 | Some Israelis believe that the adherents of Socialist Zionism would not have accepted the idea that Arabs driven out , either directly or by the pressures of circumstance , had no moral right to return . |
| 20 | As far as validation of the courses is concerned , this is being undertaken either by the CNAA or by the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester . |
| 21 | Moreover , however arbitrary musical meanings and conventions are — rather than being ‘ natural ’ , or determined by some human essence or by the needs of class expression — once particular musical elements are put together in particular ways , and acquire particular connotations , these can be hard to shift . |
| 22 | What results when the option is not exercised is not in any sense preordained , except by the terms of the option contract itself . |
| 23 | When the leader of the Wehrmacht unit at the end of his speech for the remembrance called for a ‘ Sieg Heil ’ for the Führer , it was returned neither by the Wehrmacht present , nor by the Volkssturm , nor by the spectators of the civilian population who had turned up . |
| 24 | Although by the terms of their appointment the Justices of the Forest were required to render an annual account at the Exchequer , they did not in fact do so . |
| 25 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 26 | We pray that by the efforts of our armed forces and our statesmen there may be peace . |
| 27 | If Landry consistently overstates Leapor 's radicalism , it remains true that by the standards of her time Leapor 's views on marriage and the family were critical and hard-edged . |
| 28 | He suppressed political perhaps , but Marenches argued that by the standards of the Orient , SAVAK was not that brutal . |
| 29 | If change comes ( and if it does , it will be mild ) it will be driven more by the problems with Tokyo than by the aspirations of Osaka . |
| 30 | These skills are perhaps no better illustrated than by the finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo . |