Example sentences of "by [adj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed only one way for the Druids to prevent their imminent destruction , and that was to ensure that the army never came within reach of them ; this could only be achieved either by strong enough resistance in the mountains of north-west Wales or by a serious insurrection deep within the Province . |
| 2 | A great many green ideas were produced by Labour that summer ; a ‘ green bill ’ to show up the deficiencies in Tory legislation ; making the quality of life the central theme in the 1990 local elections ; the mobilization of public opinion through the development of a network of environmental , countryside and energy organizations . |
| 3 | The abuse being hurled at the SNP by Labour this week was not theatrical but real . |
| 4 | In the example below , the loop control variable , " cost " starts as 20 , ends at 5 and is changed by -5 each time round the loop . |
| 5 | By 1875 this figure had reached 42.1 per cent . |
| 6 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |
| 7 | Fertility recovered a little from its 1977 low ( figure 4.4 ) but by 1980 this recovery was spent , at a level still below that needed to replace the population in the long run . |
| 8 | Or so I thought , until I read this week that Prince Charles , who was held up to my by that selfsame grandmother as a paragon , has apparently gone the way of the rest of our post-war generation . |
| 9 | Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden . |
| 10 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 11 | By 1986 this proportion had fallen to 54% . |
| 12 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 13 | In his opinion , the group simply needs to cut headcount by 50,000 this year to be back where it should be . |
| 14 | Of late , however , oral questions ( popularised by the broadcasting of proceedings and , some would say , radically affected in character by that ) , have tended to take the form of a mini-debate , with statements and arguments merely palely disguised by some such prefix as ‘ Is the Minister aware that … ’ . |
| 15 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 16 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 17 | In 1973 , net remittances from Yugoslav workers abroad covered about one-quarter of total payments for imports and net interest , but by 1985 this proportion had fallen to 7.2 per cent . |
| 18 | By 1985 this figure had reduced to under 4% . |
| 19 | In 1965 the Pacific countries — leaving out the US and Canada-produced goods and services worth S183,000,000,000 , sixty per cent less than that of Western Europe ; by 1985 this figure had increased eight-fold , to $1,700,000,000,000 — a mere thirty per cent less than Europe . |
| 20 | In 1951 about four million people in Britain owned their own homes ; by 1985 this figure had risen to 14 million , with 62 per cent of the total housing stock being owner-occupied ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 137 , table 8.1 ) . |
| 21 | Pilot of the lead Hurricane depicted , Frank Twitchett , has signed every print , but the example being offered for tender has been personally signed by 22 former Battle of Britain fighter pilots . |
| 22 | A week later , on Dec. 11 , the police prevented members of the public from gathering outside the meeting , which was attended by 22 former Assembly members . |
| 23 | Bids are by invitation to discount houses and to the clearing banks by this latter method . |
| 24 | So he got the barn and he he had it in a peedie pail you see and he was on his road home and he was coming by this that hillock at Yensetter there . |
| 25 | We mean by this that alien or foreign ways of life are not only treated as odd , they are also very threatening , especially when actually present in the country . |
| 26 | It is also a coincidence here that Pip 's one unselfish use of his good fortune is the only source of future blessing to him , as he is employed too by this same company . |
| 27 | The despatches that mapped every move he planned went into Wales ahead of him by this same route . |
| 28 | ' ’ But further , my lord , one stipulation I make , for your own protection : do not upon any consideration come to any meeting , or respond to any advance , however seeming honest , that does not come to you by my hand , and by this same messenger . |
| 29 | Problems faced by part-time women shop stewards were researched by this same group of men . |
| 30 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |