Example sentences of "[coord] by [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether nation be understood as a people marked off from others by blood relationship and habit of unity or by peculiarities of language , the most sure and positive sign and essence of a nation in divine and human law … or whether nation be understood as it should be , as a territory equal to that of the French nation |
| 2 | And when the network of 120,000 miles of footpaths is threatened — when paths are blocked by barbed wire or by crops like oilseed rape which you simply ca n't walk through — The Ramblers ' Association campaigns long and hard to keep the countryside open . |
| 3 | Bare or thinly-covered polar soils often show characteristic hillocks , or patterns of circles , rectangles , polygons and stripes ; these may be marked out in shallow furrows and ridges , or by lines of stones , on scales of 1 m to 30 m or more ( Tedrow , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | This process is not only one that occurs in everyday life , but has also to be carried out by scientists in the laboratory , or by coroners in coroners ' courts ( Atkinson 1978 ) . |
| 5 | These results could not be explained by expectations about the effects of influenza or by changes in mood , and they confirm findings at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit with experimentally induced illnesses . |
| 6 | It is unfettered by selection procedures , by individual likes or dislikes or by notions of fashion or quality . |
| 7 | In December , 12 new proposals were submitted by members or by groups of countries , and GATT stated that by the end of 1989 a total of 14 proposals ( from 28 countries ) had been put forward on the question of standards and norms alone and nine ( from 23 countries ) on the question of enforcement of IPRs , while a large number of other proposals dealt with further important aspects of the negotiating brief . |
| 8 | This is perhaps the result of a deliberately indifferent attitude by the composer , who says that the piece can be played by most instruments as a solo , or by groups of instruments as ensembles ; that the general tempo can be between = 42 and 132 , the duration between four and twelve minutes ; and that the ordering of different melodic strands can be quite haphazard . |
| 9 | This was particularly noticeable when hostels were set up by individuals or by groups of sympathisers , rather than by religious or other charitable organisations . |
| 10 | Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " . |
| 11 | Dieting may be prompted by perceived plumpness or by comments from others . |
| 12 | It is normal for their early attempts to consist of strings of letters , with words represented by the initial letter or by clusters of consonants . |
| 13 | The boats and barges of the early river navigations were moved along by the current or tide , by sail or by gangs of men . |
| 14 | This section will be displaced by the adoption of a new partnership agreement but not by an unexecuted draft or by heads of agreement unless their terms have in fact been acted upon or all the partners have agreed to be bound by those terms ( see Walters v Bingham [ 1988 ] 1 FTLR 260 ) . |
| 15 | Water may be slowed when rivers meet the sea , or by bends in rivers , or — depending on the local topography — by friction as currents move along a shore . |
| 16 | Movements of large tabular bergs have been monitored from satellite photographs ( Swithinbank and others , 1977 ) or by signals from radio transmitters tracked via satellites ( Tchernia and Jeannin , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | Often , more can be achieved by a combination of surgery , radiation , and drugs , or by combinations of drugs than can be done by any single means . |
| 18 | From this point of view , professional is not distinguished from amateur by any intrinsic features of the activity , nor by differences in skill , but solely by relationship to the market . |
| 19 | The bells are rung by the vicar , the Rev Simon Beveridge , each day at 8.30am and 6pm for morning and evening services and by teams of bell ringers on other occasions . |
| 20 | The class teachers have collaborated throughout by discussing lesson intentions and outcomes , and by meetings in groups with members of the research team to discuss interim findings . |
| 21 | Soon after the Shah left Teheran , the Iranian embassy in Washington was taken over by militants and by members of Zahedis staff who had hitherto seemed loyal to him and the Shah . |
| 22 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 23 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 24 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
| 25 | It was resurrected by the rising of Corunna which , by a reversion to the revolutionary federalism of 1808 , claimed to be the capital of all Galicia , and by risings in Barcelona , Saragossa , and Pamplona where officers had been plotting with the poet Quintana ( 21 February to 5 March ) . |
| 26 | Fears of religious extremism were also revived by calls to turn the 6th century cathedral of St Sophia , converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum since 1934 , into a mosque once more , and by attempts in April 1989 to introduce segregated bus services for women students in the city of Konya , 220 km south of Ankara , where fundamentalists controlled the local council . |
| 27 | It seems reasonable to suppose that the definition of a language as a subject for learning should in some way be informed by theories about the nature of language in general on the one hand and by descriptions of languages in particular on the other . |
| 28 | These could be intensified both by American protectionism and by moves for trade liberalization . |
| 29 | Evidence suggests that the virus was introduced into this vulnerable environment by long-distance lorry drivers transporting goods from Natal 's ports to neighbouring countries , and by refugees from countries to the north which have more widespread epidemics of AIDS . |
| 30 | The test items were written by the researchers and trialled both by them and by teachers in liaison schools . |