Example sentences of "by [noun] action " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not necessarily be capable of moving debris , but any debris lifted by wave action would have its direction of fall influenced by the direction of the bottom current . |
| 2 | Where currents are feeble their role may lie principally in determining the direction of fall of particles raised into suspension by wave action . |
| 3 | It may be built up into shore features without undergoing movement along the beach or , more commonly , it is transported along the beach to a point where natural factors allow it to accumulate and to be built up by wave action . |
| 4 | On the whole experiments seem to have confirmed that considerable movement of shingle offshore only takes place where pebbles are stirred up by wave action , though currents may contribute to their direction of fall . |
| 5 | Given a slight negative movement of base level , underwater sandbanks may appear above high tide level and could be converted into offshore bars by wave action . |
| 6 | Erosion or accretion of sand by wind action is evident throughout and soil genesis is truncated by erosion or fossilised by deposition . |
| 7 | The present slopes of Charnwood Forest are continuous with those beneath the adjacent Trias , while signs of polishing , grooving and etching by wind action have been found on granite excavated in quarries . |
| 8 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 9 | During the long dry periods between floods debris accumulates in the valleys as a result of weathering and also is probably swept in by wind action , so that the streamfloods have an enormous amount of readily available load . |
| 10 | In introducing the subject Grant commented that while it was important in crime investigation , it has taken on a new significance in the past year because of the large number of valuable documents that had been damaged as a result of fires caused by enemy action . |
| 11 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 12 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 13 | In 1940 , the school was badly damaged by fire — not by enemy action , but ( it seems ) by the carelessness of fire-watchers installed at night to forestall such action . |
| 14 | During the Second World War considerable damage was done to the docks by enemy action , and they have now been restored as part of the World Trade Centre , with the dock as a yachting harbour and the surviving warehouses used as trading floors with shops beneath , an imaginative example of redevelopment combined with conservation . |
| 15 | The ‘ Buildings ’ caught a hundred pound bomb all to itself , and we lost the only member of staff to die by enemy action . |
| 16 | Between 1939 and 1945 , 80,000 men , women and children were killed by enemy action on the Home Front . |
| 17 | Deaf centres which were destroyed by enemy action included Southampton , Coventry , Clapham St Bedes , Great Yarmouth , Manchester 's Roman Catholic Centre , and the premises of the National Deaf Club . |
| 18 | Another commando raid that summer was mounted by 12 Commando ; 16 men led by 2nd Lieutenant Pinkney landing near Ambleteuse where they made a general reconnaissance returning safely to England although a stoker on the naval craft was killed by enemy action , probably during the withdrawal . |
| 19 | Sadly , he says , all the actual trophies were destroyed by enemy action during the war . |
| 20 | Always known as Wesley 's Cottage it was destroyed by enemy action in May 1941 . |
| 21 | The house was used for this purpose from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939 , when it was used by the Leicester committee for refugees from Czechoslovakia , until it was destroyed by enemy action . |
| 22 | The dry docks and shipbuilding yards were extremely busy providing the facilities for the repair and refit of ships damaged by enemy action and the production of new tonnage to take the place of numerous losses . |
| 23 | However , this was more than counterbalanced by the amount of matériel and troops shipped to the Nationalists by Germany , Italy and Portugal ; by the British and French prohibition on the sale of arms to the Republic ; and by the fact that many of the Soviet arms purchases never reached the Republic because they were destroyed in transit by enemy action or were retained in France . |
| 24 | The output of the southern fields was exported through the terminals on the Gulf which were to be demolished by enemy action at the outbreak of war . |
| 25 | If members of the public generally or of a section of the public share an interest which has been interfered with by government action , the protection of that interest by court action is made much easier if one person can bring an action as representative of a large number of people . |
| 26 | Thus an expert 's decision obtained after the limitation period will not be enforceable by court action : see Chapter 12 . |
| 27 | The filmwork has been undertaken by Video Action for the Touring & Recreation Committee and the result is a thoroughly professional film , well edited with its own music and with such techniques as slow motion and freeze frame used where necessary but not excessively . |
| 28 | Arthur Scargill had much the same idea , arguing that pits could only be saved by strike action and taking the battle to the streets . |
| 29 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 30 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |