Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 2 | ‘ As I got to the platform , there was the driver surrounded by three other BR staff watching him pluck the bird . |
| 3 | They come from all parts of the country , although it 's true that a function organised by one particular branch will tend to attract mainly members from that area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only 2.5 per cent of homes — 25 per cent of those ‘ passed ’ by a cable service — had cable installed by mid-1992 , compared with 11 per cent penetration for orthodox satellite TV . |
| 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 1981 broad money rose by 13.9 per cent and in 1982 by 14.3 per cent . |
| 15 | The Ukrainian parliament voted by 340 votes to six on May 13 to annul the independence declaration as against the Constitution . |
| 16 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 17 | On June 13 he received a standing ovation from the European Parliament in Strasbourg ; on the following day the Parliament voted by 177 votes to 47 with five abstentions in favour of a resolution to maintain sanctions [ see p. 37521 for June EC Foreign Ministers ' summit meeting in Dublin ; for February United Kingdom decision to lift some sanctions see p. 37234 ] . |
| 18 | Members of the Finnish parliament voted by 107 to 90 to reject a proposal to build a fifth nuclear power station . |
| 19 | He had gone clean and sober with a fury , he swore , up at five-thirty every morning to work out at the Y , at his word processor to write by six-thirty , stopping only to watch CNN during lunch ‘ to connect with the world ’ . |
| 20 | ( 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 . |
| 21 | Roy Spring , clerk of works ( left ) , directs the endless repairs to the Cathedral , at present surrounded by 28 miles of scaffolding ( bottom ) . |
| 22 | Zeolites are naturally occurring minerals based , like most other minerals , on polymeric silicates in which the basic sub-unit is the silicate SiO4 group with its central silicon atom surrounded by four covalently-bonded oxygen atoms . |
| 23 | This molecule has a central tungsten atom surrounded by two five atom carbon rings and two hydrogen atoms . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If you book ‘ willing to share ’ we 'll put you in a two bedroom apartment occupied by four . |
| 26 | The pentagonal base of a pyramid formed by five equilateral triangles can be set upon each face of a dodecahedron to form a polyhedron of 60 faces . |
| 27 | This is the first statement of a theme , the fluted skirt broken by one knee , variations on which were to engage sculptors throughout the classical age ( cf. figs. 80 , 124 , 142 , 159 , 161 , 162 , 190 , 202 ) . |
| 28 | TXB 2 rose after radiotherapy from 0.36 ng.ml - 1 ( 0.10 to 0.88 ) before radiotherapy to 1.6 ( 0.26 to 3.28 , median rise 1.25 ng.ml - 1 ( p= 0.005 ) ) and then fell four weeks after radiotherapy stopped by 1.33 ng.ml - 1 ( +0.05 to -3.01 , p=0.028 ) ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 29 | A long fishing boat propelled by six oars . |
| 30 | Lyons ' cause can not have been helped by the red card received by one of their skilful full-backs , Jasminder Matharu , in the league last Saturday . |