Example sentences of "by [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With the onset of Big Bang , deregulation , and the formation of financial conglomerates , the problems posed by conflicts of interest have become accentuated : there is now an increased opportunity for information located within one ‘ arm ’ of a conglomerate to be misused either for the direct benefit of the conglomerate or for favoured customers .
2 As a body it naturally reflected the dominant interests in society , though it was prone to being strongly buffeted by conflicts of interest in matters of land , property and amenity .
3 The years between 1975 and 1988 were marked by conflicts between Parliament and the Council .
4 Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide .
5 The governments of the Czech Republic , Germany and Poland have signed an agreement to clean up the " Black Triangle " , the border region of the three countries , which is heavily polluted by emissions from power stations and industrial plants .
6 Organized capitalism is distinguished by centralization of capital and the increased interconnection between finance and industrial capital .
7 It is approximately 1:1.618 and has been recognized by artists throughout history as being uniquely harmonious .
8 The most moving renditions of late seventeenth-century children 's shrouds appear in two works executed by artists in memory of their own infants .
9 Both meetings had been dominated by calls from LDC representatives who urged that countries in the LDC category be given special treatment , including the writing-off of all outstanding debt [ for inclusion of Namibia in the list of LDCs see p. 38263 ] .
10 This cut by Sloanes for Hair
11 By Sloanes For Hair
12 After 1910 the workers ' movement regathered momentum , and from 1912 the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes , ever more political in motivation and ever more directly under Bolshevik leadership , culminating in a general strike in St Petersburg on the very eve of the war .
13 The scrip offer is subject to the approval by shareholders of resolution number 5 at the AGM .
14 One constant factor , unaffected by change of government , but never far below the surface , was an extreme sensitivity about the degree of public support for policies which tended to be perceived ( however misguidedly ) as ‘ soft ’ on crime .
15 Leave cloud , or precipitation areas by change of altitude and/or heading .
16 The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use .
17 He writes : ‘ New song forms have been shown to arise variously by change of pitch of a note , repetition of a note , the elision of notes and the combination of parts of other existing songs …
18 The Guardian and Financial Times joined the list , and arguably the Morning Star left it , by change of status .
19 The paper then remains at the Bank and ownership is transferred by change of registration only .
20 Figure 13.9 shows the cross-tabulation of preparedness to break the law by alienation by experience of unemployment .
21 Figure 13.9 Proportion prepared to break the law by alienation by experience of unemployment in last five years
22 For whether a difference is genetic is independent of whether the different types of animals concerned are or are not influenced by experience during development .
23 But its greater significance is as a bench mark serving to show how far the Labour Party , influenced by experience in government and by the pressure of opinion in a political democracy , had revised its prospectus .
24 There is a need to ensure organisational change does n't outpace ‘ cultural ’ change : that devolution does n't proceed until experience in managing budgets is complemented by experience in discussion financial issues honestly with users and providers .
25 Re-negotiation of steps is very commonly required since theoretical assumptions of difficulty are often not mirrored by experience in practice .
26 If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts .
27 Action by creditors on debt
28 Finnegan has been under investigation after detectives were called in by creditors of North of England Investments who lost money in the company which collapsed last year .
29 This view sounds consistent with the philosophy often cited by groups of service users — that standards should be consistent across the country and that people should have minimum entitlements to services wherever they live .
30 Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels .
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