Example sentences of "a [noun] to [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern methods of curtailing debate are largely a response to attempts by Irish Nationalists , seeking home rule in Victorian times , to abuse the rights of the opposition to oppose . |
| 2 | Traders said yesterday 's drop was intended as a correction to over-reaction by the market . |
| 3 | In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 . |
| 4 | The cell bodies of the sympathetic nerves to the upper gastrointestinal tract which are located within the irradiated volume thus represent a credible target since they might reasonably be expected to influence the duodenum in such a way that would lead to a susceptibility to ulcer by , for example , reducing mucosal blood flow or bicarbonate secretion , both of which functions are under sympathetic control . |
| 5 | What is inter-esting is that the provisions of article 7 relating to mobile equipment have triggered a proposal to Unidroit by Canada for a separate Convention on security interests in mobile equipment . |
| 6 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 7 | Justin Lekhanya , the Chairman of the ruling Military Council , on Feb. 23 , 1990 , announced a programme of political and economic reforms which included the immediate formation of two task forces headed by Foreign Minister Tom Thabane and Finance Minister Evaristus Retselisitsoe Sekhonyana respectively , the first to recommend a timetable for a return to democracy by June 1992 and the other to seek ways of streamlining expenditure and achieving efficiency in government or semi-state-owned enterprises . |
| 8 | Hun Sen , the prime minister , constantly emphasises in his election campaign that his government is the sole credible safeguard against a return to power by Pol Pot 's men . |
| 9 | The Phnom Penh government and its army are the only reliable safeguards against a return to power by the Khmers Rouges . |
| 10 | The talks covered the holding of elections in Cambodia , the prevention of a return to power by the Khmers Rouges , administration in the transitional period before elections , the restoration of peace and the country 's permanent neutrality , and the issue of US prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action ( POW-MIA ) . |
| 11 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 12 | A return to office by Labour after thirteen years of Conservative rule was becoming a distinct possibility . |
| 13 | And both of course climaxed a return to form by winning their respective championships last season . |
| 14 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 15 | Media offences with a right to trial by jury |
| 16 | At least where a right to trial by jury exists , the courts are reluctant ( in cases where national security is not involved ) to allow the Attorney-General to side-step it by approaching the High Court for an injunction to stop the publication or for a declaration that the publication is unlawful : The Voluntary Euthanasia Society published a booklet entitled " A Guide to Self-Deliverance " which discussed the pros and cons of committing suicide and described in detail a number of efficacious methods for so doing . |
| 17 | No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court . |
| 18 | They include : A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo . |
| 19 | A typical view was expressed in a guide-book to Bedfordshire by the Revd Thomas Cox in 1721 : ‘ John Bunyan , author of the Pilgrim 's progress , and several other little books of an antinomian spirit , too frequently to be met with in the hands of the common people , was , if we mistake not , a brazier of Bedford . ’ |
| 20 | The Civic Society is to be congratulated for doing a service to Abergavenny by persuading a number of established residents to reminisce in order to capture memories of the town before they are lost for ever . |
| 21 | Internal audit is defined as an ‘ independent appraisal within a department which operates as a service to management by measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of the internal control system ’ ( para . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in any system which is Orientated towards providing a service to people by people , not everything is predictable . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) If it were available in respect of a claim under the Act of 1978 , would the ex turpi causa defence clearly exclude a claim to contribution by the third defendant in this case ? |
| 24 | OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK TO PARTIES BY APPOINTMENT ONLY . |
| 25 | This award confirms a commitment to clients by offering both products and an after-sales service monitored by a guaranteed quality assurance policy . |
| 26 | Mind you , what constituted Brian Stirling 's conception of ‘ ten metres back ’ was the strangest thing in terms of a referee 's estimation of distance since Honest John Phelps decreed that the 1877 Boat Race was ‘ a dead-heat to Oxford by six feet ! ’ |
| 27 | Twice , though , Poiret gives a hostage to fortune by invoking the name of Feydeau . |
| 28 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 29 | The skald Sighvat 's poem Austrfararvísur ( Eastern Travel Verses ) describes a journey to Sweden by its author on behalf of Olaf of Norway , and refers several times to a chieftain named Ragnvald , who appears once with " the wise Ulf " . |
| 30 | The edict of Chilperic I tackled a larger selection of issues , including inheritance , dowry and robbery , but above all it legislated on the whole process of bringing a slave to trial by ordeal ; when he was to be handed over to trial , and what delays might be allowed before the king 's legal officer , the graphio , and the local law-men , the rachinburgi , took action . |