Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His grandad usually advocates something very nourishing like choccie biccies dunked in condensed milk and swilled down by draught-flow Boddingtons ! |
| 2 | Three United States citizens and a member of the Peruvian National Police involved in Peru 's anti-drug programme died near the village of Madre Mía in the Alto Huallaga valley on Jan. 12 , when their US-donated helicopter was shot down by alleged terrorists . |
| 3 | Mr Mukhametshin has been repeatedly let down by Russian suppliers , which in turn forces Anis to let down foreign customers . |
| 4 | The results showed profits down by 62 p.c. to £73m before taxation in the 12 months to January 1992 . |
| 5 | The overall effect is to loosen the tightly abutting domain junction seen in CD4(D1D2) by sliding domain 2 down by 4 residues with respect to domain 1 , lengthening the molecule by some 15 . |
| 6 | ‘ And with interest rates down by 4 percentage points in just six months , Britain enters the year ahead in a more favourable position than most of our major competitors . |
| 7 | Voter turnout was down by 3.1 percentage points to 62.9 per cent . |
| 8 | The Government went down by 71 votes and after a short Cabinet on the next morning ( 22 January 1924 ) he drove to Buckingham Palace and resigned . |
| 9 | It happened twice at Bourn to my knowledge — once the fighter was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and the other time the rear gunner in the Lancaster was killed . |
| 10 | The three taxi men were cut down by machine-gun fire from a passing civilian car . |
| 11 | Ah but you 're not the You know I 'm not going down by bloody choice no not by choice . |
| 12 | And whereas most forces are coping with a rocketing crime rate , Gloucestershire are reporting shoplifting down by 13 percent … bike thefts down by 9 percent , and vehicle thefts reduced by 3 percent . |
| 13 | The irony is , of course , that British farmers are also tied down by European quotas . |
| 14 | local authorities — to decide , within the broad financial constraints laid down by central government , what priority should be given to education at a local level ; to formulate , within the statutory framework , general policies for local education provision , and , where appropriate , to allocate resources to local communities |
| 15 | She tried making friends with other women who had children , exploring ways of shared childcare ; but faith was not enough , they were bogged down by impossible travel arrangements , endless irresponsibility and hopeless public transport . |
| 16 | It was confirmed by Justice Minister Ghazi Obeid as Sammar , who said that all other sentences handed down by martial law courts would be upheld . |
| 17 | As new syntactic categories settle down by innovative accretion along the lines suggested , the complex mesh of grammatical relations becomes the cloth of an ever-changing community coat . |
| 18 | Waiters scurry to and from their cafes and tavernas , weighed down by great trays of food and drink , tripping over cats and noisily claiming right of way over passing cars . |
| 19 | I 'm extremely sad to see that the price for glass has gone down by five pounds a ton which results in the er the income from the recycling of glass being halved . |
| 20 | During this transition , the retirement age was brought down by five years , staffing numbers were reduced , the unprofitable office in Edinburgh was closed , procedures were modified and attitudes changed , a research department was established , some shuffling of the partners took place , and the youngest of them , Nigel Humphreys , was appointed Managing Director . |
| 21 | or where they set tables down by small rivers , |
| 22 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 23 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 24 | Nearly all of that was in classifieds where erm , the volume was down about er , eleven point eight , nearly twelve percent and er , revenue down by eight point three percent . |
| 25 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 26 | Three of the dead , including two policemen , were shot overnight and the other six were gunned down by masked snipers as they made their way in a crowd of thousands of peace protesters into the city centre . |
| 27 | The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country . |
| 28 | I said I 'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable . |
| 29 | PUT DOWN BY ONE LINE |
| 30 | Since England lost 3–0 and West Indies won 2–0 , there was not much doubt who was Top Team , though , having said that , West Indies then lost a very bad-tempered series in New Zealand , going down by one wicket in the only Test to see a result . |