Which preposition to use with machinery

of Occurrences 365%

Christ does not still the machinery of the world, nor shut the mine, nor take away the sowing and the reaping.

for Occurrences 81%

On Slade's showing, Handy Solomon and his worthy associates thought they had a chest full of riches when they got the doctor's treasure; believed they owned the machinery for making diamonds or gold or what-not of ready-to-hand wealth.

in Occurrences 68%

It creates THOUGHT to guide the hands that set all this vast machinery in motion.

by Occurrences 31%

Everything can be warmed or freshened on the stove which forms a part of that electric machinery by which in every household the baths and lights are supplied and the house warmed at night.

to Occurrences 15%

We send school-books and machinery to China; she sends us tea, matting, and bamboo.

on Occurrences 15%

138-170; for the agricultural machinery on the Jewish National Fund's Model Farm at Ben-Shamen, see the Report of the German Vice-Consul at Jaffa for the year 1912.]

at Occurrences 15%

All of the victim's judicial colleagues were out of town, and though some of them intended as a mark of respect for the dead man to come up for the funeral, which was to take place two days later, they were too familiar with legal procedure to feel curiosity as to the working of the machinery at a preliminary inquiry into the crime.

with Occurrences 11%

This is the vital machinery with which Governments propose to do their martial work; and the amount of vital force which belongs to these living machines, severally and collectively, is the capital with which they intend to accomplish their purposes.

into Occurrences 11%

In answer to an inquiry of the Brahmin's, he admitted, that though he had been able, by the force of congelation, to burst metallic tubes several inches thick, he had never succeeded in making it put the lightest machinery into a continued motion.

from Occurrences 8%

Mules brought the machinery from the coast to the brink of the canyon, but no mule could possibly have carried it down the steep trail into Caraveli.

as Occurrences 5%

His rejection of railroads and steam machinery as necessary factors in modern civilization caused many to pay little attention to any of his social theories.

than Occurrences 3%

Some thought it was more machinery than life, more organization than organism.

under Occurrences 3%

To their cheap labour perhaps is due in some cases the large export trade in cheap clothing, but even then it is doubtful whether the work would not otherwise have been done by machinery under healthier conditions, and have furnished work and wages for English workers.

within Occurrences 3%

To be sure, the Indian women never did anything quite so barbarous as to put their little girls' feet into narrow shoes with high heels, nor fasten tight belts about their waists, so that the God-given machinery within could hardly work.

before Occurrences 2%

An existing factory cost, let us say, $500,000 to build and equip with machinery before the war.

through Occurrences 2%

Senator Elihu Root points out fairly, squarely, and relentlessly the two great dangers confronting the Republic: the danger of the National Government breaking down in its effective machinery through the burdens that threaten to be cast upon it; and the danger that the local self-government of the States may, through disuse, become inefficient.

out Occurrences 2%

Our brains are queer thingsmine is, I knowand it doesn't take much to throw their machinery out of gear.

over Occurrences 2%

These conquests and acquisitions are real, are practical; machinery over life, the triumph of physical forces, dominion over waves and winds,these are the great victories which consummate the happiness of man; and these are they which flow from the philosophy which Bacon taught.

without Occurrences 1%

"Fine!" was the comment of the pilot, as he jumped to the ground, and bent over to detach some part of the machinery without which the motor, as Andy always said, "would not move worth a cent."

around Occurrences 1%

The seat that I was sitting on was so small I had to be very careful lest I be injured by the machinery around me.

behind Occurrences 1%

On the contrary, they tear away from the heart the curtain of deceit, artifice and treachery, to expose the nature of the machinery behind the scenes.

below Occurrences 1%

This, I presume, is occasioned by magic art, or perhaps by means of some secret machinery below ground.

down Occurrences 1%

he roared, advancing upon the child, raising the hand that still held the wrench with which he had been working on the machinery down stairs.

like Occurrences 1%

Perhaps no fabric in the world ever tested the ingenuity and value of machinery like this.

across Occurrences 1%

During the evening we learned of the difficulties Mr. Prain had had in bringing his machinery across the plateau from the nearest port.

Which preposition to use with  machinery