Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 More and more transactions between customer and retailer are now done by telephone .
2 Whether other mechanisms of defence are also governed by capsaicin sensitive nociceptive neuroens remains to be proved .
3 The welfare gains from decentralization are often considered by reference to those deadweight losses that result from centralization ( Oates 1972 ) .
4 Any problems with parenting are routinely exacerbated by poverty , inadequate housing , harassment , and constant anxiety about losing the child .
5 The manufacture of cloth itself had of course been considerably affected by war .
6 The terms of the review are best illustrated by reference to the contrast between the field of social policy and the discipline of sociology .
7 I shall argue below , in connection with Dennett and Sloman , that our commonsense intuitions about the unity of consciousness are better preserved by analogy with program level than with program module .
8 Is my hon. Friend aware that British Steel 's productivity woud be fatally crippled by Labour 's absurd proposal to ban coal imports ?
9 By the late 1990s , however , it sees the industry being significantly challenged by competition as the technological and regulatory barriers to entry into the telephone business start to erode more rapidly , it says , warning that as that happens , telephone companies that have not become market-driven organisations will risk falling behind .
10 By the time the Japanese landed at Koebang on 19 February 1942 , the main elements of Sparrow Force were also ravaged by malaria .
11 Just about every retail purchase you make with the Card is immediately covered by Purchase Protection against accidental damage , loss or theft for up to 90 days and begins where any existing cover you may already have leaves off , up to £20,000 per Cardmember .
12 The precious gift of consciousness and subtle perception is thus overlain by distrust , doubt , fear and the entire spectrum of human weakness .
13 Onset of convection is thus marked by Nu increasing above unity .
14 In this case , the setting of the edit-point on the source-tape is best done by stopwatch .
15 All these suggest that there has been some degree of real tooth loss in these predator assemblages due to digestion , and since this loss is also accompanied by loss of bone , it is considered that this is the most extreme degree of breakage in these comparisons .
16 Fluid loss is usually accompanied by electrolyte loss .
17 At the east end , the springmakers work , and the machines required by them are installed in this part , together with an electric welding machine and various bolt and nut machines ; boiler-makers work on the south and west sides , and the forging presses are also laid down here while the north side is mainly occupied by drop hammers .
18 The regular training programme is jointly planned by adult education advisory tutors and senior speech therapists .
19 Concentration is normally measured by number of newspaper titles ( or radio stations , and so on ) or market share .
20 The effect of fluctuations is ironed out , so that the personnel department is not disrupted by recruitment activity .
21 Conceptions of prejudice , and associated forms of multiculturalism in education , are premised on the view that prejudice is primarily caused by ignorance — in this case of black cultures .
22 The excellent environment for research is further enhanced by research workshops and conferences .
23 Although local authorities are accountable to the local electorate , their powers and a significant proportion of their finance are derived ultimately from Parliament ( which in practice is invariably dominated by government ) .
24 empirical-rational strategies — based on the assumption that people are rational beings who will change their ideas or behaviour if the effectiveness of a concept or practice is clearly demonstrated by research ;
25 This strict rule is now relaxed by concession .
26 A tempting short cut is often suggested by numerology , fiddling around in a totally ad hoc way with formulae to produce a ( more or less ) numerical fit to some data .
27 Light is then added by painting with acrylic colours over trunks , branches , fence posts or where branches cross and shadow
28 In a photoionization process , on the other hand , any energy from the incoming photon over and above that needed to ionize the molecule is carried away as kinetic energy of the electron ejected from the molecule ; conservation of linear momentum is generally accomplished by recoil of the ion formed .
29 The second part of the submission is conclusively answered by clause 15 of the constitution of the Council of the Inns of Court , which Brooke J. cited in his judgment as a visitor to Lincoln 's Inn in In re X ( A Student ) ( unreported ) , 11 November 1991 .
30 Also , people simplify their worlds : they learn through deductive logic but possibly more through experience , and , once learned , the lesson is stored in simplified form as schemas and scripts so that action is not paralysed by thought .
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