Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water . |
| 2 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 3 | Attitude questionnaires were also filled in by both experimental and control groups . |
| 4 | Officer education itself is presently carried on by about 140 officer commissioning middle and higher military schools , offering four to five year courses and conferring higher education degrees : fully 13 per cent of all higher education in the USSR is now carried out in the military sector . |
| 5 | To the left , parallel to the automatic system , was a manual system ; you changed down by simply pushing the lever forward . |
| 6 | NORTH WEST ‘ Properties costing over £100,000 have come down by about 20 per cent , semis by about ten per cent and terraces by about five per cent , ’ says Clive Watkin of the Clive Watkin Partnership on the Wirral , Merseyside . |
| 7 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 8 | Maybe you 'll have cooled down by then . ’ |
| 9 | Otherwise she 'd have come through by now . ’ |
| 10 | And then sh Elizabeth had come over by then and I said it 's it 's in her bag , so we had a look at it and her friend said it 's for angina , it always makes her ill ! |
| 11 | They are , in effect , triggered off by very specific and local forms of social relationship and the threats they pose to everyday life . |
| 12 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 13 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 14 | I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage . |
| 15 | When it gets to ten , the members stay at five when the company gets to ten , the damage is picked up by either reducing members benefits or restricted index linking . |
| 16 | This point is picked up by both Gregory and Fredegar , who describe the later Frankish invasion of Burgundy in 523 as the prosecution of Chlothild 's bloodfeud against her uncle 's family . |
| 17 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me told that if things were not sorted out by tomorrow , the company would cease trading and I do really fear that this is the end . |
| 18 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me if things were not sorted out by tomorrow the company would cease trading and I do really fear this is the end . |
| 19 | Sale fan John Flacks , a member of the fledgling Supporters Shareholders Association , said last night : ‘ I was at a meeting with Alex Ferguson on Thursday and he inferred that something might be sorted out by today . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , hopefully , it 'll all be sorted out by now ; Jennifer was going to explain everything at home . ’ |
| 21 | At any distance can sometimes be picked out by generally whiter appearance . |
| 22 | However , a patch repair can be carried out by carefully scraping away the burnt area with a knife until all the charring has been removed . |
| 23 | ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’ |
| 24 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 25 | The services carried out by both the All- weather and Inshore lifeboats over the years are well documented and , as usual , Jeff Morris 's book can be recommended to anyone with an interest in the work and history of lifeboats in the area . |
| 26 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 27 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 28 | The examinations , which are purely oral , are carried out by specially trained native speakers . |
| 29 | Prescribing will be carried out by specially trained and experienced nurses , yet trained nurses are leaving the NHS at the rate of 80,000 a year — a quarter of all nurses . |
| 30 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |