Example sentences of "by [noun prp] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The epic story of how the citizens of Phocaea abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians is told by Herodotus 1.163 ff . |
| 2 | A report from the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) confirmed that by Sept. 14 more than 70,000 prisoners had been exchanged between Iran and Iraq in keeping with the peace agreement concluded between the two countries on Aug. 15 [ see pp. 37667-68 ] . |
| 3 | In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force . |
| 4 | By December 1988 over a million had purchased their properties . |
| 5 | By May 10 more than 200 people had died and hundreds had been admitted to hospital after drinking poisonous liquor laced with methyl alcohol in Orissa . |
| 6 | By May 1990 more than 3,000 evacuees from the destroyed EL Chorillo district of Panama City remained in temporary accommodation in two aircraft hangars , waiting to be rehoused . |
| 7 | His most important wartime network , ‘ La Dame Blanche ’ , had by January 1918 over 400 agents reporting on German troop movements from occupied Belgium and northern France . |
| 8 | By January 1985 almost 300 heavy goods vehicle movements per 24 hours were recorded ; by 1988 the figure had risen to about 750 . |
| 9 | By July 1990 nearly half the country was under emergency regulations — a legacy inherited by the new government of President Alberto Fujimori which took office in Peru on 28 July . |
| 10 | By February 1990 almost one-third of the 344,263 ethnic Turks who had fled in 1989 had returned to Bulgaria because of the unemployment and other economic hardship they had encountered in Turkey , and latterly because of the repudiation in Bulgaria of Zhivkov 's assimilation policies . |
| 11 | By November 1912 only fifty-one constituencies in Great Britain were without candidates , a much better position than the position at dissolution in either 1909 or 1910 ; few of these fifty-one constituencies were winnable , but in any case most of them had candidates by the end of 1913 . |
| 12 | By October 1989 only three City Technology Colleges had actually opened , although eleven more were at the planning stage . |
| 13 | The dissolution of the monasteries by Joseph II also had important economic consequences for Slovenia . |
| 14 | The resident Turkish missions sent to the major European capitals in 1793 by Selim III rapidly lost most of what practical significance they had ever possessed . |
| 15 | But by August 1958 both sides realized that world opinion was turning against them , partly as a result of the scientists ' warnings , partly out of revulsion and fear , partly because nuclear disarmament had begun to be a popular political issue — and nothing makes a politician have second thoughts faster than the awareness that he might be losing votes . |
| 16 | The term ‘ frottola ’ died out during the 1520s ; its substance may be seen at its most sophisticated in Antico 's Canzoni Sonetti Strambotti et Frottole , Libro Tertio ( Rome , 1517 ) , which includes beside a number of examples by Tromboncino some nearly madrigalian pieces by Genet/Carpentras and Michele Vicentino . |
| 17 | The great expansion of diplomatic contact between Russia and the rest of Europe brought about by Peter I inevitably led to an increase in the size and activity of the Posolskii Prikaz . |
| 18 | In other counties also ‘ an Attempt was made by Charles I again to enlarge the Forest ’ . |
| 19 | The hard times foreseen by Nicholas senior now came . |
| 20 | By June 6 about 300 such detainees were being held under light security in Addis Ababa , and the interim government had stated that they were to be tried in the presence of international observers . |
| 21 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |