Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] by [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When trainees are allowed to begin interviewing on their own under supervision they have already been accepted as CAB trainee advice workers , but in the GLCABS structure where candidates begin by observing the interviewing process they may not yet have formally passed the selection procedure . |
| 2 | Each week the hamsters were weighed under ketamine anaesthesia , and the tumour areas calculated by measuring the bipendicular diameters with Vernier callipers . |
| 3 | With a x 40 microscope , surface lines become visible — the lines caused by buffing the silvered copper surface to its state of high polish , in readiness for exposure — but the image does not break down into its constituent silver-mercury particles . |
| 4 | Because viruses replicate by hijacking the genetic machinery of host cells , it becomes extremely difficult to make effective anti-viral drugs . |
| 5 | Unlike the moths , which , we have seen , ignore relative pheromonal concentrations , and simply fly upwind , ants steer by balancing the pheromonal concentration to the right and left . |
| 6 | Libyan bombers responded by attacking the government-held town of Arada . |
| 7 | The sensitivity can be improved and interference from other ions diminished by extracting the red colour with a solvent . |
| 8 | Groups of Muslim demonstrators retaliated by attacking the nearby Holiday Inn with small arms and grenades in an effort to dislodge several snipers who could be seen firing from the hotel 's upper floors . |
| 9 | Hence the marginal cost of producing the last film must be the value of the meals sacrificed by using the last units of labour to make films rather than meals . |
| 10 | The results found by taking the first ten allowable strings in order of combined ranks and probabilities are shown in tables 3.7 and 3.8 below . |
| 11 | Most feminists respond by multiplying the female subject , and taking the collective category of ‘ women ’ as a pragmatic basis for their politics . |
| 12 | The results obtained by running the following example program show the effect of changing the zone width . |
| 13 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 14 | But quite unlike car manufacturers , Japanese computer makers began by exporting the high end of the product line rather than beginning with lower-priced models and trading up . |
| 15 | In direct supplies derived by rectifying the alternating mains , a low-pass C-R filter is often used to reduce the residual alternating component of the output to an acceptable low level . |