Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells . |
| 2 | Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth . |
| 3 | On the licensing of overseas editions : A royalty of 6% ( six per cent ) of the Publisher 's net receipts on all copies duplicated by licensed overseas agents . |
| 4 | In Japan , as in Germany , love of consensus and the absence of a revolving door leave little room for unorthodox views peddled by independent institutes . |
| 5 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 6 | The consumer price index rose by 17 per cent in the first 11 months of 1989 compared with 16.7 per cent in the whole of 1988 . |
| 7 | Between 1967 and 1980 the Consumer Price Index rose by 67 per cent , whereas during the same period campaign expenditures for House elections rose by 163 per cent and by 150 per cent for elections to the Senate . |
| 8 | Between the surrender and December 1948 the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce retail price index rose by 4000 per cent and it is estimated that black market prices increased at double this rate . |
| 9 | The actual outcome was that in the twelve months ending in December 1986 the money supply rose by 109 per cent ( the highest on record ) and the cost-of-living index rose by 90 per cent . |
| 10 | So , in this example , although money national income rose by 100 per cent , real output per capita rose by only 25 per cent . |
| 11 | Underwriting losses more than halved to £259 million and investment income rose by 20 per cent to £210 million . |
| 12 | It added that national income rose by 1.9 per cent in 1989 as against 4.4 per cent in 1988 [ see p. 37020 ] . |
| 13 | Between 1970–71 and 1980–81 , per capita income rose by 143 per cent , and the wholesale prices of all commodities rose by 150 per cent . |
| 14 | In the two years between 1972 and 1974 , the sales of Mills and Boon titles rose by 13 million . |
| 15 | Stock market prices in West Germany rose by 3.5 per cent in the same period . |
| 16 | Between 1897 and 1912 , the wheat crop of the United Kingdom fell by 6 per cent while that of Germany rose by 38 per cent . |
| 17 | The price of developed building land in Germany rose by more than one-third between 1970 and 1972 . |
| 18 | In 1981 broad money rose by 13.9 per cent and in 1982 by 14.3 per cent . |
| 19 | In 1989 exports , an important gauge of economic activity in the principality 's highly industrialized economy , rose by 14.5 per cent as compared with the previous year ( when exports rose by 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 20 | In the third quarter of this year , our exports rose by 1 per cent . |
| 21 | Exports rose by 9 per cent in 1989 ( albeit at a lower rate than the 14 per cent recorded in the previous two years ) , to $110,000 million ( fob ) and imports by 8 per cent , thus leaving a commercial balance of $28,000 million . |
| 22 | Yesterday 's figures showed the value of imports falling by 2.5 per cent to £9.6billion in November while exports rose by 0.5 per cent to £8.1billion , giving the lowest visible trade deficit since September last year . |
| 23 | During that same period , food export prices fell by eleven percent alright , whereas manufactured export , prices of manufactured exports rose by twenty percent . |
| 24 | The value of exports rose by 29 per cent to Rs202,800 million , helped by the depreciation by about 12 per cent of the rupee and liberalization measures . |
| 25 | Home repossession orders through the County Courts rose by 35 per cent in 1991 to a total of 74,000 , the Lord Chancellor 's Department said . |
| 26 | Ten control rats excreted ( mean ( SE ) 188.2 ( 13.6 ) µg of PABA ; 10 rats with an intestinal stagnant loop excreted more ( 530.1 ( 30.1 ) µg ; p<0.001 ) : whereas 10 rats in each of three groups pretreated by oral administration of various antibiotics excreted less ( polymix B+ tinidazole , 4.9 ( 1.6 ) µg ; kanamycin , 31.0 ( 4.7 ) µg ; clindamycin 40.9 ( 5.5 ) µg ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 27 | Subsequent non-UNEP figures show that in 1986-89 , the EC 's halon emissions rose by 27 per cent , while CFCs declined by 24 per cent . |
| 28 | ( 1989 ) , combining GHS and British Crime Survey ( BCS ) figures , suggest that household burglary rose by 17 per cent while police figures showed an increase nearly 8 times more -127 per cent . |
| 29 | The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre . |
| 30 | It may be an ark , but one on which anthropophagy is rife ; an ark skippered by some crazy greybeard who beats you round the head with his gopher-wood stave , and might pitch you overboard at any moment . |