Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 40,000 Cornish houses are affected , say surveyors who report blanket bans by many societies on loans secured against properties containing any concrete . |
| 2 | Of course there 's the familiar smash and grab technique used by these ram raiders to steal from stores . |
| 3 | I hope therefore that the Department of Transport will do whatever possible to increase motoring costs by such methods as petrol taxes and road pricing . |
| 4 | The firm now also offers floating licences , permitting access to Liken by any user on a Sun-based network ; a single licence is $700 , a floating one is $900 . |
| 5 | Also , because of the type of accounting system adopted by all record companies , it is quite feasible for royalties generated from record sales in the UK to take nine months before they are paid to the artist . |
| 6 | Some interesting manoeuvres will be experienced here as the locomotive has to be released so that it can run to Cosham and Havant to turn on the well known triangle formed by this route . |
| 7 | About £3 billion went on reducing pollution caused by all kinds of waste and £2.4 billion on curbing air pollution . |
| 8 | Following interest expressed by several London galleries which , according to market sources , will have included Lefevre , Thomas Gibson and Marlborough Fine Art , where Freud had showed his work until 1972 , the senior British figure painter reached an agreement with New York dealer , Bill Acquavella , shortly before Christmas . |