Example sentences of "and by [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 6 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These could be intensified both by American protectionism and by moves for trade liberalization . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The test items were written by the researchers and trialled both by them and by teachers in liaison schools . |
| 13 | This indifference was naturally felt most acutely by the countries like Kenya in the second group of borrowers and by countries like Brazil in the fourth . |
| 14 | Er we 're financed by grants from various authorities and by payments of course from the bodies who ask us to put on these talks . |
| 15 | In the years that followed labour unity was undermined by further US directives prohibiting national strikes and by revisions to Trade Union laws which sought to isolate those labelled as ‘ militants ’ . |
| 16 | This question echoes those regarding sustainable development raised by the opponents of gold mining in the west of Ireland and by opponents of Merrell Dow in east Cork . |
| 17 | Both by calculation and by experiments with model cells , George was able to show that the process of buckling and elongation absorbed a great deal of energy . |
| 18 | Other branches of modern scholarship are represented by a gift from Professor Denys Hay of correspondence concerning , and drafts of an article on ‘ British Historians and the Beginnings of the Civil History of World War II ’ , 1971–76 ; and by papers of Sir Robert Grieve on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other planning matters , C.1945–64 ( on deposit and not yet available for consultation ) . |
| 19 | Local thicknesses and effects of permafrost are discussed by Tedrow and Brown ( 1967 ) for the North American high arctic tundra , Chernov ( 1985 ) for the Siberian Arctic , and by papers in Campbell ( 1966 ) for Antarctica . |
| 20 | However , the Assamese are in a minority in several parts of the state , outnumbered by various tribes and by immigrants from Bangladesh ( hence several bloody clashes between the ULFA and militant tribesmen ) . |
| 21 | Unidroit , for example , goes to considerable trouble , by means of consultations with representative international organizations and by questionnaires to specialists and to governments which in turn consult their national organizations , to establish that those practising in the field in question believe that differences in national laws create a problem and that harmonization would bring benefits . |
| 22 | A demonstration in Tirana , the capital , on Jan. 17 , by 20,000 supporters of the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Albania ( UITUA ) , was reportedly followed by a meeting on Jan. 18 between union officials and Prime Minister Vilson Ahmeti , and by promises from Ahmeti that wages would be inflation-adjusted and that social assistance would be given to the unemployed . |
| 23 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 24 | The albacore tuna fishery in the South Pacific was thought by fisheries scientists to be fully exploited by trolling vessels , mainly from the US and New Zealand , and by longliners from Japan , Taiwan , and Korea . |
| 25 | Iraq 's oil production is some 1 million barrels per day less than Iran 's but its war effort has been supported by aid from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both by direct practical aid and by gifts of oil , sent out from Saudi and Kuwaiti ports , but marketed by Iraq . |
| 26 | Along the route the marchers were harassed by the RUC and by bands of loyalists , many of whom were off-duty policemen and Specials . |
| 27 | Analysis of the trainees ' needs as perceived by they themselves , by ESL specialists working with them , by college management and by trainers with experience of this work . |
| 28 | In a subsequent experiment , carried out only among right handers , the warning stimulus was followed by a verbal stimulus in one condition and by pictures of faces in other conditions . |
| 29 | Between Redgrave and Marlesford in Suffolk , the structure of the Chalk basement , its relation to the Crag basins and the continuity of aquifers in the Plio-Pleistocene sequence are being investigated by resistivity and gravimetric techniques and by boreholes for Suffolk Water plc . |
| 30 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |