Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 6 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 7 | Another man , ridden down by two Dragoons , choked on blood . |
| 8 | All of its provisions had been upheld other than that relating to spousal notification which was struck down by two votes to one . |
| 9 | But although the away side did well in the Midlands , there was disappointment at Liverpool , where the locals went down by 31 shots . |
| 10 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 11 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 12 | The Cowboys went down by 35 points in week one , but Buffalo , by contrast , opened on a high with four passing touchdowns , three caught by Andre Reed . |
| 13 | City gave another disappointing display as they made their second Cup exit of the week , when in their replay in the O'Brien Trophy game , they went by the went down by three goals to one . |
| 14 | On the descent that followed , leading to Låddejåkkåstugan — stugan is hut — about six kilometres , we beat them down by forty-five minutes , freewheeling all the way . |
| 15 | Hence applications must be in by nine weeks time , nine weeks hence at the very least . |
| 16 | Dropped for the Adelaide Test , he returned for the final contest , at Melbourne , where 90,800 attended on the second day , and though he did little of note , he was with Mackay at the end as Australia scraped in by two wickets . |
| 17 | This left the throne to be fought over by thirteen competitors and the kingdom vulnerable to the ambitions of Edward I. Wars resulting from territorial ambitions were in no way unusual . |
| 18 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 19 | In theory , it was set off by two boys who stole a can of soft drink from a third boy . |
| 20 | Except perhaps , another New Zealander , Professor Ernest Rutherford , who , at Manchester University , succeeded in splitting the atom and in the process started off a chain of events that would be even more shattering than that set off by two shots . |
| 21 | Thousands of homes and businesses were cut off by two fires at exchanges in Liverpool and Sheffield last month depriving them of all telephone services , including emergency 999 calls . |
| 22 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 23 | The inculcation of the new ‘ tradition ’ was backed up by two documents in particular . |
| 24 | they were being picked up by two Commandos and dumped on the grass verge . |
| 25 | Only fifteen artists are actually included in the present volume , most of which is taken up by two sketchbooks by the eternally popular Maurice Prendergast , whose Paris sketchbook contains ninety pages of deftly-sketched scenes of bourgeois life , mainly park and street scenes with women and children . |
| 26 | Which makes The Edward Collection , built up by two brothers over 40 years , worth a fortune . |
| 27 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 28 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 29 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 30 | GIBSON 'S VIRTUAL reality- noir best seller was optioned in 1985 by Cabanas Roy Productions , set up by two kids at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel who , with backing from the bored wife of a prominent New York plastic surgeon , decided to become movie producers . |