Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 13 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 7 Decide in which area personal contacts will be of most use and make contact by telephone . |
| 16 | They lie on a mattress in the living room and make love by candlelight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The marsupial ( pouched ) and placental ( womb-bearing ) mammals had separated , and lived side by side . |
| 19 | Ivan had become a legend , a symbol of all the other Ivans who died on the battlefields and fought village by village and street by street to drive the invader out of Russia . |
| 20 | He came across a cave where three hundred partisans were quartered and fought side by side with them until the end of the war . |
| 21 | AN unexpected 1 p.c. rise in manufacturing production in February raised hopes that manufacturers were beginning to climb out of recession and caught economists by surprise yesterday . |
| 22 | It was saved from the flood by being cut into blocks and moved piece by piece to higher ground . |
| 23 | These guidelines are similar to those in the original 1973 Act and apply to sale and supply contracts by virtue of s11(2) of UCTA 1977 . |
| 24 | Meanwhile developing countries that are managing to trade , accumulate physical capital and grow year by year , are increasingly able to find the finance they need from private suppliers . |
| 25 | This example points to an underlying trend in the English language : to assume that male is the norm and to define women by reference to their sexuality . |
| 26 | And be advised that at the end of its days at Eardisley , it was rescued by Welshpool 's famous narrow gauge railway company and transported piece by piece to Raven Square station . |
| 27 | ‘ This man ’ — she took John 's arm — ‘ could shut his eyes and walk yard by yard in his mind-down any line he 's built . |
| 28 | Aiming to identify the patients dying specifically from their liver disease and to avoid biases by time dependent variables ( blood transfusion requirements within the 72 hours ) , statistical analysis was performed on the 91 patients still alive after 72 hours and after exclusion of the patients dying from other causes than liver failure or exsanguination ( eight ) . |
| 29 | This method dispenses with the old image of workers laboriously laying down layers of fibre in a mould and adding resin by brush . |
| 30 | In fact it almost seems to be a condition of such performance that the exponent must not proceed logically but must temporarily inhibit his conscious critical faculties and accept control by intuition . |