Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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1 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
2 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
3 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |
4 | A palette with 256 colours allows simple selection of colours for lines by clicking the left mouse button and for fills by clicking the right mouse button . |
5 | Orders for Busy Lizzies must be received by 25 March ( delivery mid-late May ) , for Polyanthus by 19 April ( delivery mid-late July ) and for pansies by 15 May ( delivery early-mid August ) . |
6 | Grants for the purchase of drawings were made by the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and for books by the Friends of the National Libraries . |
7 | The budget for grants has been increased by £10 million and for loans by £30 million , increasing the total amount from £228 million to £268 million . |
8 | This occurred within firms through directorships and through families by intermarriage . |
9 | Sylvia Pedder from Headington in Oxford uses a wheelchair and despite efforts by British Rail to update their trains , she says often she has to travel for hours on end on her own . |
10 | The event was won by Ben Moon , and despite attempts by the organisers to keep details of those participating secret , the BMC quickly learnt of Moon 's involvement . |
11 | The Environmental Protection Act requires the installation of new pollution abatement equipment , and despite assurances by David Trippier , Minister of State for the Environment , the federation is concerned that neither HM Pollution Inspectorate nor local authorities have adequate staff or expertise to advise individual companies on how the legislation will affect them . |
12 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
13 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
14 | Ravhele 's forced resignation , amid allegations of corruption , was the culmination of six weeks of popular demonstrations and of strikes by public servants . |
15 | Strikes , many of them " indefinite " , were staged for wage increases and against redundancies by public-sector workers , private bank employees , Sao Paulo metal workers , dockers at all major ports and workers at power plants . |
16 | Degas Sculptures written by Anne Pingeot and with plates by the distinguished photographer Frank Horvat , is handsomely designed , exquisitely printed and numbingly expensive . |
17 | The lavishly illustrated volume is an introduction into the architectural history of Berlin 's wider surroundings , published in association with the federal government of the Land Brandenburg and with texts by various authors on not only architectural aspects of this part of former Prussia . |
18 | The last , edited by Evelyn Weiss and with contributions by a number of other authors , is published to coincide with an exhibition travelling from Barcelona ( until end January 1993 ) , to Cologne ( from February ) and Nuremberg ( from June ) . |
19 | The book , edited by Michael Brandt and including contributions by Rainer Kahsnitz and Hans Jakob Schuffels , will come out in January to coincide with the exhibition of the Gospel itself in Hildesheim ( 15 January until 28 February 1993 ) . |
20 | He thought it was possible to seek to produce more lasting ties of unity among and within societies by educating a rational group of leaders . |
21 | Financial , as opposed to commodity , futures were innovated in currencies by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) in 1972 and in bonds by the Chicago Board of Trade ( CBOT ) in 1976 . |
22 | In winter all white , except for black tail , distinguished from slightly smaller Ptarmigan by stouter bill , toes much less heavily feathered , and in males by no black patch between bill and eye . |
23 | The campus novel has its theatrical equivalent , too , in the plays of Simon Gray , who went to Cambridge , and in Jumpers by Tom Stoppard , who went to no university at all . |
24 | It is considered that his present and future operations should be more carefully coordinated and controlled both in planning and in operations by H.O . |
25 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
26 | Throughout May there had been an increase in army counterinsurgency missions and in attacks by the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) , combined in the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Board ( CNGSB ) . |
27 | This meant that on some occasions they would be conducted by Busacher , on others by Anton , the old répétiteur , and in emergencies by their own lead violinist . |
28 | Obvious examples are convictions for driving offences , for defective vehicles under the Motor Vehicles ( Construction and Use ) Regulations 1978 ( SI 1978 No 1017 ) and in prosecutions by HM factory inspectors . |
29 | Abruptly it proclaimed itself a tribe , featured all twenty-three staff , tribe members on the cover , reported on the growth of the yippies , America 's politicized hippies , and on plans by Sid Rawle 's Hyde Park Diggers to move to the country . |
30 | A report by the US Senate foreign relations committee released on Feb. 6 condemned the UN 's failure to respond to ceasefire violations , and to threats by Moroccan forces to fire on unarmed UN military observers ; the UN peacekeeping mission in the territory was in jeopardy , the report said , because of mismanagement and possible financial irregularities in its US$58,000,000 budget . |