Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In primary care prescribers rightly expect a safe and accurate dispensing service , but they have lost the regular advisory service and are most often given drug information by drug company representatives . |
| 2 | Lipoproteins may indirectly affect platelet function by altering vascular endothelial cell function . |
| 3 | These findings suggest that lipoprotein abnormalities in the diabetic state may also indirectly affect platelet function by damaging vascular endothelium . |
| 4 | Indomethacin , at doses that are known to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , failed to inhibit chemiluminescence production by the inflamed colonic mucosa ( Fig 7 ) . |
| 5 | Alcohol may also affect cholesterol metabolism by decreasing catabolism to bile acids ( Lefevre et al , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | As the Forties reservoir declines , the Forties Echo experience could play a part in maintaining field production by introducing the technology throughout the Forties field . |
| 7 | Told I have broken Borough policy by recommending custodial maximum on lad . |
| 8 | As you are no doubt aware , 1986 has been designated Industry Year by the Government . |
| 9 | Teenage train hero Youngster may have averted rail disaster by Sandy Braid NEWS REPORTER |
| 10 | Virtually unexplored and uncharted until the mid-nineteenth century , this area was the inspiration of artists , musicians and writers — composer Edvard Grieg spent his summers here and playwright Henrik Ibsen was inspired to write Peer Gynt by the legends and folklore of this part of Norway . |
| 11 | We will take 740,000 taxpayers out of taxation altogether by increasing the personal allowance and wife 's earned income allowance by more than inflation . |
| 12 | He analysed projectile motion by resolving the motion of a projectile into a horizontal component moving with a constant velocity obeying his law of inertia , and a vertical component subject to a constant acceleration downwards . |
| 13 | Carbon dioxide emissions with natural gas are reduced by up to 30% compared to gasoline , and exhaust carbon monoxide by over 70% . |
| 14 | Prima facie a clause which specifies review date by reference to the commencement of the term requires the measurement to be taken from the date from which the term is computed , and not the date of the lease ( Beaumont Property Trust v Tai ( 1982 ) 265 EG 872 ) . |
| 15 | The US , the most vociferous of Britain 's critics , refuses to take any of the boat people , because almost all come from north Vietnam , still considered enemy territory by the US . |
| 16 | However , the main channel during the critical period when schools were being brought into the Primary Needs Programme phase by phase ( 1985–8 ) was the Authority 's substantial programme of in-service courses mounted at the Primary Schools Centre , and discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 17 | Such costs suggest portfolio adjustment by means of large lumpy transactions rather than by the continuous small transactions implied by quadratic costs . |
| 18 | The facilitators of the adolescent groups provide group leadership by using an inductive questioning strategy that moves discussion from the concrete and personal level to the social analysis and action stage . |
| 19 | The US car industry has formed a new alliance to challenge a bill which would compel car makers to increase fuel efficiency by 40 per cent over the next decade . |
| 20 | Even decaffeinated coffee may stimulate acid production by the stomach and then predispose you to indigestion , heartburn and peptic ulcers . |
| 21 | It has now become clear that large firms have remained extremely important in generating jobs and that policies to encourage job creation by large firms are more important , in terms of numbers of jobs created , than those helping small firms . |
| 22 | Pollution Control : A comprehensive plan is introduced for modernising pollution control by looking at discharges from big factories to air , water and land as one big package , requiring one licence . |
| 23 | To take a few regional examples , Africa would have to increase grain production by almost fivefold and Latin America by almost threefold . |
| 24 | The high sensitivities obtained in some centres would suggest that it is technically feasible to obtain tissue confirmation by cytology in all patients with hilar strictures . |
| 25 | Fascism , racism , anti-Semitism and attacks on lesbians and gay men are on the increase and gaining ground year by year . |
| 26 | Thus , FGF-4 causes limb outgrowth by stimulating proliferation of cells in distal limb mesenchyme . |
| 27 | There had been an attempt , through Acts of Parliament , to revive the election of local Forest officers and the holding of local Forest courts in some forests ; these measures were intended to preserve the forest woods and to increase timber production by enclosure of the forest wastes . |
| 28 | 2 RBL hopes to increase student motivation by presenting varied possibilities , of subject matter , method of working , and medium of communication , in contrast to the class lesson where all must learn one thing in one way . |
| 29 | Dr Ken Jones , of Affinity Chromatography , Isle of Man , said biotech drugs promise to increase life expectancy by 20 years . |
| 30 | These included capital investment by US companies in the Soviet Union and co-operation on space projects ( including a joint flight to Mars ) , environmental problems and medical research . |