Example sentences of "by [verb] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1991 Özal antagonized conservative nationalist currents within the ANAP by easing restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language , hoping thereby to improve Turkey 's minority rights record and to undercut support for the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which since 1984 had been waging a violent campaign in support of separatist demands . |
| 2 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 3 | The following samples are all knitted by using O on the back bed and V on the front bed . |
| 4 | By completing work on the remaining Memoirs , the full value of the database already created and in use will be realised . |
| 5 | SAFER Auvergne functions by purchasing land on the open market and re-selling it within 5 years to enlarge existing farm units or to create new , more rationalised units . |
| 6 | Free newspaper groups in particular welcomed the opportunity to provide their readers with interesting features about both the Battle of Britain and the work of the Association , whilst at the same time encouraging their regular advertisers to support the Appeal by purchasing space on the feature . |
| 7 | And by eavesdropping talk on the terraces and in the pubs , they overheard plans for a pitch invasion like this one at the County Ground last year . |
| 8 | The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day . |
| 9 | The Minerals Group continued to maintain contact with the Minerals Industry Research Organisation ( MIRO ) by representing BGS on the MIRO Research Advisory Panel that is concerned with exploration , mining and geology . |
| 10 | William Davis , known as the ‘ Golden Farmer ’ from Gloucester , was apparently respectable , but he subsidised his living by robbing coaches on the moor . |
| 11 | Nevertheless Brian Harley hit a sketchy drive down the right-hand side of the fairway and his shot to the green was partly masked by encroaching trees on the right . |
| 12 | Jesus could have been following the custom of the Pharisees by celebrating Passover on the Thursday evening . |
| 13 | Some members of the team distracted the bull by turning somersaults on the paved court : while the beast 's attention was diverted , an acrobat might leap crosswise over its back . |
| 14 | The research aims to investigate these past trends by analysing data on the employment , income , savings , welfare transfers and household circumstances of the elderly population in Britain since 1900 . |
| 15 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | In the future the special health authorities will have to raise funds by selling beds on the open market . |
| 17 | The council sought an injunction to prevent a clergyman trespassing by holding services on the plaintiff 's seashore . |
| 18 | Bull also continued the fight with greater subtlety through the Daily Telegraph : he wrote for the Telegraph regularly in 1917 , either directly as " our political correspondent " , or indirectly by feeding information on the Bill to the paper , and this helped to keep at least one part of the Unionist press briefed with the official party line . |
| 19 | Thus the project wishes to focus on additiorial areas of injury including , managerial strategies , that is , the methods used to communicate the goals of the enterprise to the workforce ; the work process , that is , the distribution of power and authority in the workplace and the divisions of the workers on the basis of income and status ; migration , that is , the study of worker satisfaction , in as much as a stable working population is an indication of employee loyalty ; ethnic and religious divisions , that is , whether religion and nationality was used to divide workers by allocating jobs on the basis of these factors ; and , lastly , women and trade unionism , that is , the degree of workers ' identification with an alternative loyalty structure to that of the enterprise . |
| 20 | Many bookstores , in particular , foster this confusion by displaying books on the two subjects side by side . |
| 21 | Research does not argue with this , but it does cut out a lot of hard work by providing evidence on the best methods , treatments , or products available from which you can begin to make choices and evaluate the effectiveness of care given as a result . |
| 22 | The CAP , the largest component of the EC 's budget , by providing assistance on the basis of output and type of product , was not regionally directed and often worked in the opposite direction to regional policy . |
| 23 | 1 Informing the decisions of clinicians and patients by providing information on the probabilities of success and risks associated with different treatment options . |
| 24 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 25 | General manager David Tarr started the ball rolling by undergoing training on the courses held at Everton Football Club . |
| 26 | By cutting corners on the main line to enable trains to travel at 90mph instead of 75mph , a single-lead junction , similar to the one at Bellgrove , had been installed . |
| 27 | Although the term might seem naturally to denote prior arrangement , it was held under the previous law that the word is ‘ not a term of art ’ and that a person can organise spontaneously by giving directions on the spot as to such matters as the route to ken , when to stop and when to advance and so forth . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the social representation approach might differ from ethogenics by focusing attention on the differences , or particularities , of historical epochs . |
| 29 | Throughout the Italo-Abyssinian conflict of this period , Nizan forcefully argued the need for collective security , on the one hand , by voicing his implacable opposition to the colonial ambitions of Mussolini , and on the other , by focusing attention on the highly dubious diplomatic manoeuvres of the British and French governments , the more reactionary elements of which were seeking to use the conflict as a " pretext for a new imperialist arms race " . |
| 30 | Maddison was at fault by losing possession on the edge of his own area and Cantona chipped a superb shot over goalkeeper Tim Flowers . |