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Example sentences of "by [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Eventually in 1858 Earl Stanhope moved in the House of Lords that the Queen should be petitioned by Parliament to remove from the Prayer Book the services which commemorated not only the death of Charles I but also the accession of Charles II in 1660 , the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , and the landing of William of Orange in 1688 .
2	According to the Middle East International of May 31 , the US permanent representative at the UN , Thomas Pickering , had been personally instructed by Baker to vote against the Israeli action .
3	Indeed , on occasions , the word ‘ nation ’ was used by Engels to refer to the inhabitants of a State regardless of language , culture or ethnicity .
4	Most misspellings in words of more than one syllable have been found by research to occur in the unstressed syllable , especially in the vowel .
5	Since 1976 , in Britain at least , anyone of eighteen or over has been allowed by law to go to the General Register Office , the local Social Services or the appropriate adoption agency to obtain their original birth certificate .
6	210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed .
7	This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts .
8	‘ What in fact happened was that the owner was induced by deceit to agree to the goods being transferred to Ballay .
9	‘ What in fact happened was that the owner was induced by deceit to agree to the goods being transferred to Ballay .
10	Turtles , programmed by youngsters to move around the floor and describe shapes with pens on their under-bellies , are the means to that end .
11	And this observation carries over into the theory of employment : the labour market also clears , and any unemployment which remains is entirely the result of voluntary decisions by workers to withdraw from the labour market while still being officially classified as unemployed .
12	It also revealed the paltry sums thrown at such communities by BC to compensate for the lower quality of life they are forced to endure .
13	Where , for instance , an independent power generator will be permitted by Directive to plug into the grid of any Member State ( something , as we have seen , not actually proposed by the Commission at present ) , it will be able to do so only with a safety clearance from the appropriate ‘ home ’ authority .
14	Few of the mechanics know much about aeroplane engines , so Jack was asked by Fletcher to work on the engine .
15	Gosse was perplexed at the vast tracts of time required by geologists to account for the deposition of all the strata .
16	The child imitated the sipping movements his sister had been schooled by Tommaso to make at the cafe , like a small bird at a fountain .
17	Reported casualty estimates rose day by day to settle by the end of October at 552 dead and 2,100 in hospital .
18	Many a godly Jew must have felt what a wonderful thing it would be if Moses ' longing could be fulfilled , ‘ Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets , that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ’ ( Num. 11:29 ) : and that is just what the prophets were led by God to foretell for the last days .
19	All of the contradiction comes because when the citizens charter was announced and the Prime Minister increased the costs of the Cabinet Office by £800,000 to pay for the work to be done on it , bringing the cost of the Cabinet Office to £22.5 million , it was announced that the PA consultancy report had been commissioned .
20	‘ Every person no matter how handicapped , has been called by Christ to share in the Same divine life ’ ( Pope Paul VI )
21	A tenancy from year to year is saved from being uncertain because each party has power by notice to determine at the end of any year .
22	Then , at 1045 , three crew members with a small inflatable were again sent by road to help in the flood relief work at Ballycastle , where the flood waters had still not receded and the situation was still critical .
23	Calm was restored after the Law and Order Minister , Adriaan Vlok , arrived by helicopter to reason with the farmers .
24	The meal was hardly over when Mr Heath flew to Sunningdale by helicopter to preside over the last stage of the conference on the future of Northern Ireland .
25	We are soon , however , encouraged by society to look to the future for our happiness .
26	However , when the prophet Isaiah had a similar revelation of the presence of the holy God of Israel , the revelation of the character of God was accompanied by instructions to preach to the unbelieving people .
27	The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary .
28	The march was allowed by police to pass into the vast Manezh Square beside the Kremlin walls after it had overspilled the intended venue for its concluding rally , outside the Moscow city soviet building on Gorky Street , but a heavy police cordon prevented the marchers from entering nearby Red Square .
29	It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle .
30	Thomas and Mungham show how the duty solicitor scheme was created and evolved , ostensibly as an act of public service but chiefly as a significant part of the struggle by outsiders to break into the cartel .