Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time .
2 In no circumstances can you set your net on a field inhabited by any farm animals , for these can panic and run into the standing nets — not only destroying the evening 's sport but also destroying the nets .
3 They often went to the park to sit by that lake . ’
4 Next consider a unit step function delayed by some time as depicted in figure 11.5(a) and denote it by .
5 A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section .
6 Where two vehicles collide and one then suffers further damage by striking an immobile object ( but not a parked car ) all damage sustained by that vehicle shall be taken into consideration when applying the Partial Indemnity Clause .
7 The subsequent development of state contributory systems of income maintenance , although to some extent building on the systems of mutual support developed by some trade unions and friendly societies , which were informed by a collective ideology and em-bodied the concept of the right to support , has also been constrained by the desire to maintain male work incentives .
8 One of these is the Runefang carried by all Elector Counts , and the other is the Dragon Bow of Ostland , a magic bow whose arrows are tipped with dragon horn .
9 Although the cable has by this stage disappeared , the cells in the mound still contain a great deal of filamentous actin in a disorganized arrangement ( Fig. 4 h ) .
10 One fairly obvious analogy is the type of case considered by this court in In re Chase ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 1 N.Z.L.R. 345 where , following in particular the decision of the Privy Council in Tampion v. Anderson [ 1973 ] 3 A.L.R. 414 , the view was taken that an order dismissing an action on the ground that there was no reasonable cause of action was an interlocutory judgment and that therefore no appeal lay as of right .
11 Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque .
12 The package is modelled on a successful Canadian Superhost hospitality programme developed by that country 's tourism ministry under which more than 200,000 people have so far been trained .
13 It is as if the speaker , in a state of semi-consciousness , was first aware of the stimulus , and then , an instant later , suddenly awoke to find himself confronted with the result provoked by this stimulus , without being conscious of the passage from one state to the other .
14 That government made standards in education a principal plank in its election platform and the action undertaken by that government in relation to curriculum and assessment is part of a wider and coherent strategy on standards in education .
15 Just one base wrong in a particular DNA sequence may cause a coding error in the protein formed by that gene .
16 A fair point , maybe , but one that smacks of the kind of social-comment spuriousness spouted by many fashion editors who ought to know better .
17 I stress we are not anti-Europe and nor was this meant to be a mischievous motion , but we are very distrustful about any deal negotiated by any member of this government .
18 The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting .
19 First , for each subject on each repetition we start with a data matrix of eight columns : g , a dummy taking the value 0 or 1 depending upon whether the subject did the experiment in a group or individually ; a , a dummy indicating the attempt number ( 1 or 2 ) ; t , the period number ; X t , the output chosen by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; p t , the proportion of ( post-production ) stock sold by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; P t , the output price in that period ; σ , the relevant standard deviation of the price distribution for that subject in that attempt ; and k , the relevant storage cost for that subject on that attempt .
20 This may not always be straightforward since , although there may be a majority decision , the reasoning used by each member of the majority may differ .
21 As an example consider a hybrid stepping motor in which the peak static torque produced by each phase is proportional to the phase current and the phase torques vary sinusoidally with rotor position : For conventional operation the windings are excited by positive and negative rated current , giving a step length of r/2p for each excitation change .
22 The dictionary used by this system consisted of 300 seven letter words .
23 Bag work is essential to learn how to cope with the often heavy recoil effect produced by this kick .
24 By the way , I deplore the practice employed by some filling stations of having several premium unleaded pumps on the forecourt but tucking the standard and cheaper fuel , away in a corner .
25 The total amount of protein extracted by this procedure was equivalent to that observed when the procedure of Dignam et al ( 24 ) was applied ( 4–12 µg/10 6 cells ) , but the amount of AP-1 activity measured by band-shift was 3–5 fold higher than in the standard procedure .
26 Less radically , the fashion for making heads , arms and feet from separate blocks of stone allowed the insertion of new portrait heads in old torsos , a practice condemned by some Roman and Greek writers .
27 ‘ That 's all we need ! ’ said Iris , her nerve restored by this display of masculine weakness .
28 The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities , permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices .
29 ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease .
30 It is thus , of course , open to the objection that was raised previously — that a loss of associability incurred during pre-exposure might obscure the transfer effect generated by such inhibition as was also acquired .
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