Example sentences of "[conj] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An action does not become good simply because it is motivated by a good will , or by the right kind of ‘ thinking ’ , at least not in international relations . |
| 2 | Guests relax on the beach or by the salt-water pool situated on a flower-bedecked terrace . |
| 3 | If a Request is sent to an authority which is not competent to execute it , it must be sent forthwith to the correct authority , either by the former authority direct , or by the Central Authority . |
| 4 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 5 | And I mean er er you could argue that you know , because he 's er erm you know targeting the young and people who are at school in particular , the fact that , you know , if he 's successful in targeting those , then by nineteen forty nine those school children will be sort of will be the , the peasants , will be farmers and therefore will be more willing , you know , having been indoctrinated by his thoughts er or , or by the communist way of thinking , then erm for the revolution . |
| 6 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 7 | Induction of colitis , by the intracolonic instillation of trinitro benzene sulphonic acid/ ethanol , acetic acid , or ethanol or by the oral administration of carrageenan is associated with systemic endotoxaemia . |
| 8 | A proposal to hold such referendum could be submitted by either the Czech or the Slovak parliament , or by the Federal Assembly , but it could be vetoed by the federal President , Vaclav Havel . |
| 9 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 10 | If a comprehensive settlement included the repatriation of the refugees ( admittedly a wholly inconceivable eventuality at present ) , Jordan would cease to have either economic or political importance , and would probably be absorbed eventually either by Syria or by the Palestinian state . |
| 11 | In one statute ‘ confidential information ’ means information disclosure of which is forbidden by statute or by the civil servant who gave it to the local authority . |
| 12 | In many cases there is a hefty bank and ditch marking the village boundary , but in others this may be marked only by a slight change in level or by the continuous line of the rear of the platforms . |
| 13 | Attempts to delay stent clogging by prescribing long term antibiotics or by the mucolytic action of aspirin have met with little success , though recent studies suggest that silver impregnation of the stent and omitting side holes may be helpful . |
| 14 | The position appears to be beyond question as a result of the decision of the House of Lords in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , and in cases covered by the UCTA 1977 , s9 makes clear that a clause may be judged reasonable , and enforceable , even though the contract has been terminated either by the breach , or by the innocent party in response to the breach . |
| 15 | Transport is provided for those parents who require it , either by the caretaker using the school 's mini-bus or by the part-time school social worker . |
| 16 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 17 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
| 18 | Large-scale crustal shortening is often present in intercontinental collision orogens and this may be accommodated by folding ( Figs 3.17 , 3.18 ) , or by the limited subduction of continental crust during the initial phase of collision following the previous episode of steady-state subduction . |
| 19 | Speed of presentation can be controlled — either by the lecturer in group instruction , or by the individual student . |
| 20 | Few people can fail to be impressed by the rate of growth of both the animal protection and environmental movements in the last twenty years , or by the extraordinary change in public attitudes with which this growth has been associated . |
| 21 | In addition , a serious breach , or a breach of a term classified by the contract or by the general law as a condition , will allow the innocent party to terminate the contract . |
| 22 | Their background was often a conflict between different interests , although in some cases the conflict was masked by an apparent consensus at the time a particular measure was enacted , or by the general approval given to a measure subsequent to its enactment . |
| 23 | Numerous analyses leave no doubt that the scale of these changes can not be explained by any combination of relative adjustments within the context of post-war international economic recovery , the emergence of new industrial nations , the vigorous operation of comparative advantage within a high growth of trade , or by the substantial increase in semi-manufactures [ Panic , 1975 ] . |
| 24 | Meaning may be expressed by specific Chinese characters ( Shou , for example , indicates long life or good luck ) , or by the particular animal , bird or plant most closely associated with each quality or fate . |
| 25 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , no power is conferred for this purpose , either by statute or by the common law , although there was ample authority to enter to arrest if there were sufficient grounds to suspect that an offence had been committed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In this case , domination is regarded as a universal and ineradicable feature of human societies , explained either by innate differences among human beings ( Pareto , 1915–19 ) or by the superior power which an organized minority always possesses in relation to the unorganized majority ( Mosca , 1896 ) , although in Mosca 's work some concession is made to the view that the progress of democracy reduces the gap between rulers and ruled . |
| 29 | Malcesine , less than five miles away , is easily accessed by regular local bus which stops just 200 yards away , or by the daily boat service from the jetty in Brenzone . |
| 30 | And tea estates in India have now got to be owned by Indians or by the Indian government . |