Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious , however , that the picture is patchy and that those industries which are dominated by smaller firms , such as the clothing and timber industries , are suffering most in the current recession . |
| 2 | Baudelaire 's perception of terrible depths when surrounded by shallower figures sets him beside Sweeney . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think the way we played at Leeds he was something of a luxury sometimes — there were times when even his team mates did n't know what he woeld do next ’ ‘ It 's different at Scumchester United where they really do play through him — AND OF COURSE HE 'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY BETTER PLAYERS ’ … |
| 4 | On the exterior ( 276 ) is the high pyramid surrounded by smaller ones all covered with the scaled roofing tiles so typical of the region . |
| 5 | The National Assembly on March 19 adopted the government 's amendments to the July 1989 electoral law [ ibid. ] , apparently tabled in view of the perceived strength of the FIS , which introduced proportional representation to increase the share of seats won by smaller parties , rather than allowing parties with over 50 per cent of the vote to take all the seats in that locality . |
| 6 | Four seats were won by two parties closely aligned with the NLD , the United Nationalities League for Democracy ( UNLD ) won 65 seats and the remaining seats were won by smaller parties or independent candidates . |
| 7 | The cheap care provided by childminders is mostly patronized by poorer mothers , especially African and West Indian mothers . |
| 8 | The project organised by Safer Cities could lead to a ‘ Safe Transport ’ scheme . |
| 9 | If the upper echelons of power were largely occupied by older groups , traditionally established there , from 1830 ( in France ) , from 1848 ( in Germany ) the bourgeoisie ‘ assaulted and conquered the lower levels of political power ’ , such as municipal councils , mayoralties , district councils , etc. , and kept them under control until the rise of mass politics in the last decades of the century . |
| 10 | The main frontages were nevertheless crammed with closely packed buildings , while the land behind was evidently more open and occasionally occupied by larger structures . |
| 11 | But , both being owned by larger companies — Moody 's by Dun & Bradstreet , S&P by a publishing firm , McGraw-Hill — they need not disclose their financial details , and do not . |
| 12 | CAMRA wants a sliding scale of excise duty , to promote competition by encouraging the retention of specialist breweries owned by larger concerns . |
| 13 | In fact she had been approached by wealthier men than Jonas , whose interests in her were sometimes honourable but mostly not , and she had a realistic enough sense of her attraction not to be ruffled by anything her cousin could say . |
| 14 | Despite the UK using more pesticides than most , a slow and cumbersome system for pesticide review means that 30-year-old chemicals remain in use despite having been superseded by safer alternatives , Clark argues . |
| 15 | Environmentalist Darryl D'Monte is calling for big technology to be supplemented by smaller schemes . |
| 16 | As a result of the major works carried out in 1853 , supplemented by later improvements , the principal areas of the palace were now lit by gas , though this was augmented in the state apartments by huge crystal chandeliers . |
| 17 | In 1873 Gladstone 's government passed the Judicature Act ( succeeded by further statutes over the following two years ) . |
| 18 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 19 | The affair was venerated by later revolutionaries as the opening round in their battle against the autocracy . |
| 20 | They then alleged that the private ( marketed ) sector was squeezed by higher taxes to finance this growth in the public sector — the result being deindustrialization , low labour productivity , low economic growth and balance of payments problems ( see also Ch. 14 ) . |
| 21 | Scottish supermarket group William Low is finding sales squeezed by larger competitors . |
| 22 | THE forthcoming pit closures will mean an extra headache for Barnsley Building Society , whose borrowers have already been hard-hit by earlier closures in the '80s . |
| 23 | New ventures are one way to solve the problem of promotion bottlenecks for middle managers whose prospects are constrained by slower rates of industrial growth . |
| 24 | Thus , it is relevant that those retiring shortly after a state pension scheme begins may be subsidized by younger generations . |
| 25 | A stone tower remained , repaired by later comers , for forts can never be redundant in Ireland . |
| 26 | While the first Arts Minister , Jenny Lee , boasted of handing cash to the council to spend as it wished , the ‘ arm 's length principle ’ was progressively eroded by later ministers who earmarked grants for government approved schemes ( The Art Newspaper , No.17 , April 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 27 | Client-server applications are becoming a reality with performance problems being addressed by faster computers , faster local network speeds and improving software . |
| 28 | Client/server applications are becoming a reality with performance problems being addressed by faster computers , faster LAN speeds and improving software . |
| 29 | The pressure is not alleviated by further statements which are over-dogmatic without consideration of their effects : ‘ We are convinced , and our experience supports us , that the auditory mode can be the mode of information transmission for hearing-impaired children ’ ( 1981 : 147 ) . |
| 30 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |