Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases looters were killed by shop-owners intent upon defending their properties . |
| 2 | This summary figure is quite widely used by Registrars General in the United Kingdom but others are possible . |
| 3 | Fig. 3.2 Amount of a saline solution consumed by rats pre-exposed to water ( W ) , saccharin ( S ) , Lemon ( L ) , coffee ( C ) , almond ( A ) , sodium chloride ( Na ) , or to a variety of these flavours . |
| 4 | Shares have a distinct legal status reflected ( inter alia ) in the limitations imposed by companies legislation on the circumstances in which payments may be made in respect of them . |
| 5 | A total of £420,000 has been received by Companies House in fines following the introduction of penalties for the late filing of accounts on 1 July 1992 . |
| 6 | Localisation of DNA-protein contact points by DMS resistance of complexes resolved in gel retardation assays |
| 7 | ‘ From the Greek capital , Athens , we were taken by cattle truck to Germany — this is when the real nightmare began . |
| 8 | The length of the period of cultivation in this bush/fallow cycle depended on the quality of the soils , the requirement of the crops for nutrients , and on whether fertility was supplemented by cattle manure from the farmers ' own livestock . |
| 9 | On the other hand in Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 495 , one of the National Conditions of Sale ( 19th edn ) which were not drafted by bodies representative of all parties , was held unreasonable . |
| 10 | It is first necessary to assess China 's broader security policy in order to understand what role is played by arms control in defending China . |
| 11 | One of his biographers , Justin O'Brien , says Gide 's awakening to social consciousness began here , when he saw the people of the Congo exploited , beaten , and killed by whites intent on quick profits ( Portrait , 321 ) . |
| 12 | As you may know the public seat on Snowhill has recently been removed from its base , as far as we can tell by vandals intent on stealing it . |
| 13 | Elgiva , like Terentia in the earlier play , is powerless : she is effectively sold by her mother and then held prisoner by men intent on raping her . |
| 14 | Poor , poor language , attacked in its innocence by feminists intent on destroying its virtue . |
| 15 | Even senior officers admit that to call this neighbourhood policing is a misnomer ( FN 15/5/87 , p. 2 ) , but , however dangerous and selfdefeating they appear , neighbourhood patrols are seen by police management as an essential and necessary feature of the role of the police in Catholic areas . |
| 16 | Southall , 34 , who drives 140 miles a day between his home in Llandudno , North Wales , and the Everton ground in Liverpool , was trapped by police radar in August . |
| 17 | This in turn was possible when abolitionists were provided with the occasional opportunity , by factors exterior to the small British antislavery world , to break through the torpor and indifference of opinion and mobilise popular enthusiasm of a kind not seen since the 1830s . |
| 18 | This was allegedly perpetrated by Protestants intent on panicking the Unionist Party into bringing O'Neill down . |
| 19 | THE FOSSIL RECORD shows that throughout the history of life on Earth the groups of animals that were dominant in any one age were often replaced wholesale in the next age by others animal of a quite different group ; and biologists have sometimes argued that such replacements occur because of direct competition between the old dominant type and the new . |
| 20 | A claim under section 14 of the Sale Goods Act will , however , succeed because section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act totally prevents the exclusion from a consumer deal of the terms implied by sections 12-J5 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 21 | The Annual General Meeting of the Chartered Institute of Transport in the UK will be held on Monday March 29 , 1993 at 1030 hrs at , to consider the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended September 30 , 1992 , to elect to the Board , Mr A Dartnell and Miss S Jourdain having been nominated by Sections Conference as Directors , and to elect auditors for the year 1992–3 . |
| 22 | Wardens Appointed by Letters Patent Under the Great Seal |
| 23 | Some were appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal : in 1299 , for example , Gervase of Holloway , King 's yeoman , was granted for life , as a reward for long service : |
| 24 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales the principal officers were appointed by letters patent from the monarch . |
| 25 | An 8.5″ by 11″ page at 300dpi needs 1 megabyte of memory , the same page at 400dpi needs nearly 2 megabyte while Printware 's 1,200 by 600 needs a massive 8.5 megabytes . |
| 26 | The fear , following fierce controversy over political interference in England 's separate curriculum by ministers south of the Border , is that the document will also be used to put a political stamp on the Scottish scheme . |
| 27 | Among the 10 titles scheduled by Editions Spengler for 1993 is the Bosnian war diary of Zlatko Dizdarevic , editor of the Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje . |