Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good negotiating discipline is to sum regularly , thereby ensuring points of progress are agreed and noted stage by stage . |
| 2 | Censorship of literature on political grounds was by no means new as Thompson 's history shows , and both Thompson and Noyce have demonstrated that the censorship of newspapers in particular ( especially those from the hard and radical left ) is common and endemic , so why this new and specific response by the Library Association ? |
| 3 | After a welcome and introductory talk by Sylvia Townson , the theatre 's public relations officer , visitors were able to wander all over the Edwardian building with most grabbing the chance to stand behind the footlights for a thespians ' eye view of the ornate auditorium . |
| 4 | Two hundred years after the Declaration of the Rights of Man took place in France , 200 years after that historic announcement of tolerance and emancipation , we can still see the practice of the most odious and cruel despotism by a man who is the execration of humankind , who is directly and personally responsible for crimes against humanity , and crimes against justice . |
| 5 | The style originally formed in 1966 from a number of different elements which merged to give one strong and definite style by 1967 . |
| 6 | In response IBM 's David Fitzgerald said that the internal report related to the early seventies when there had been a problem at the mine and that monitoring by both Galway County Council and An Foras Forbartha revealed no cause for concern . |
| 7 | Thereafter the difference between his life class and that run by Ruskin Spear was that in Spear 's the students painted naked ladies , in Minton 's , naked men . |
| 8 | If there is any infestation at all , you can be certain that there is more undetected , and that treatment by a specialist firm will be essential . |
| 9 | That promise is worthless and that pledge by the Opposition illustrates why the promise is worthless . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Each undertakes to the other thenceforth to hold the part in their hands to the other 's order , and that day by first-class post or hand delivery to send their part to the other , together , in the case of the buyer , with bank draft or a solicitor 's clients ' account cheque for the deposit . |
| 11 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm the conman , ’ he replied , and that humiliation by Barnsley instantly began to feel like nothing worse than a bad dream . |
| 13 | It is peculiarly frightening to have an accident in a tunnel , but that should not obscure the fact the Severn tunnel in particular , and the railways in general , have a very good accident record and that travelling by rail is safer than travelling by road . |
| 14 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 15 | I know now that the prototype was a bit too light and delicate on the controls and that flying by subjective impressions has to be replaced by adherence to procedures and parameters . |
| 16 | The better view is that classical liberal economic thought , which propounded that the market allocated resources satisfactorily , that unimpeded private enterprise guaranteed growth and progress , and that intervention by governments was unnecessary and undesirable , had already become common ground . |
| 17 | Paragraph 21 exposes a gap , pointing out that an innocent acquisition followed by a dishonest decision to keep or dispose of the property was in general not larceny and that larceny by finding was committed only where at the time of the finding the finder believed that the owner could be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 18 | Latin motets , particularly the shorter and simpler ones by Lassus and Gallus ( Handl ) , were much used by the Lutheran church . |
| 19 | Police officers insist that most of the killings are drug-related , especially in Rio , where minors are employed as delivery boys and armed lookouts by traffickers . |
| 20 | In " A Description of the Western Isles , " Volume 2 , 1819 , he says " places referred to may be specific , without the necessity of having much recourse to the often dissonant Celtic and Scandinavian names by which they are marked . |
| 21 | In " A Description of the Western Isles , " Volume 2 , 1819 , he says " places referred to may be specific , without the necessity of having much recourse to the often dissonant Celtic and Scandinavian names by which they are marked . |
| 22 | In humans , platelet activating factor has been found in patients with oesophagitis , ulcer gastric , Crohn 's disease , and ulcerative colitis by us and others . |
| 23 | Since the report is expected to form the basis for an investigation and possible action by the Serious Fraud Office , it is highly unlikely that it will be published in full . |
| 24 | Their business is to propound ideas in such a way that their claimed transfer value is made explicit for the consideration and possible operationalization by the teacher . |
| 25 | The first-year unit integrates the approaches of historians and political scientists by focusing on the changing characteristics of the state as it has emerged in the modern world . |
| 26 | The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state . |
| 27 | First , their case focused attention upon the ambiguous ethical relationship between campaign contributions and political favours by elected officials . |
| 28 | Translated by Samuel Johnson ; Poems by George Crabbe ; Essays by Abraham Cowley ; Knickerbocker 's History of New York by Washington Irving ; Letters on England by Voltaire ; Table Talk of Martin Luther ; Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Sir William Petty ; The Natural History of Selborne by Rev. Gilbert White ; The Diary of Samuel Pepy 's : Seven Discourses on Art by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Sermons on Evil-speaking by Isaac Barrow D.D. ; Sermons on the Card and other discourses by Hugh Latimer ; The Curse of Kehama by Robert Southey ; Trips to the Moon by Lucian . |
| 29 | We have noted how the peasantry of the Black-Earth region was palpably influenced in its social and political manners by its traditional natural background . |
| 30 | Its rejection led to a series of industrial strikes , demonstrations , and repressive measures by the Government . |