Example sentences of "[vb past] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This one cost only 25,000 dollars , which is incredible for something sired by a champion sprinter . ’ |
| 2 | The House of Representatives began debating the legislation on June 4 by defeating alternative bills , one of which was supported by Bush and another proposed by a group of black legislators . |
| 3 | He points out that Sberbank was forced to lend to the government nearly all of its 372.3 billion roubles in deposits at the start of 1992 , the year when price controls were removed and prices rose by a factor of 26 . |
| 4 | Although the overall number of night visits increased sharply in the first year after the introduction of the contract ( for example , in Berkshire it rose by a half over the previous year p 762 ) , the absolute number of night visits made by the deputising service may have altered much less , without much cost saving . |
| 5 | Sales rose by a half of one percent last month , that was double August 's increase and more than experts had predicted . |
| 6 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 7 | It also tightened its grip on dealers : the number using it rose by a quarter to 304 , more than 75 per cent of all Ford main dealers . |
| 8 | Measured by cost of damage , serious accidents fell by a half whilst those resulting in light damage rose by a quarter . |
| 9 | Half-year profits rose by a quarter to £8.2 million , despite the slump . |
| 10 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 11 | The Labour vote itself rose by an average of between 8.3% in hung authorities to 9.7% in the handful of Democrat-controlled districts . |
| 12 | In 1987 school fees rose by an average of 11 per cent as compared with an inflation rate of 4.1 per cent , but despite higher fees the independent schools are growing by about 6,000 pupils a year , and by the end of the century they are expected to account for 8.5 per cent of the school population . |
| 13 | On July 9 food prices rose by an average of 25 per cent following the withdrawal of state subsidies . |
| 14 | Mr Dorrell , visiting Darlington Memorial Hospital , claimed during the 1980s the number of patients treated in the town rose by an average of 5pc a year . |
| 15 | The village , now blessedly encircled by a by-pass , was once on the main A4 , and before that , on the principal London to Bath stage route . |
| 16 | Stamped iron depositum plates , tin-dipped and designed in the form of a concave oval cartouche encircled by a garland of flowers , first appeared at the end of the seventeenth century ; so did grip-plates , which were similarly oval with a repoussé design of winged cherubs ' heads . |
| 17 | There is only the one , topped by Pinus sylvestris , and encircled by a crown of thorns . |
| 18 | The startling image of a piano encircled by a wedding ring exemplifies the notion of affinities developed by Magritte from the 1930s . |
| 19 | GOLD bullion closed up a dollar in London helped by a pause in the dollar 's advance with an absence of fresh news . |
| 20 | At the Dhoon Quarry , where the engine was given a drink from a convenient fire hydrant , the turnround was made using a crossover and helped by a gravity shunt . |
| 21 | No record exists of his education : he may have attended the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds or a charity school in nearby Hawstead maintained by a kinsman , Sir Dudley Cullum , who became his brother-in-law in 1710 . |
| 22 | Furthermore , only modules referenced by a package can be so explicitly sent to offline storage . |
| 23 | In order to propagate this knowledge , the managers of all packages containing a module referenced by an SSR are asked to consider whether : |
| 24 | As they reached the fire engines they were handed a print-out detailing the call : a road traffic accident in Trafalgar Square reported by a member of the public . |
| 25 | He paused a moment to let his words sink in , and then added : " Perhaps he 'll explain away the case , reported officially to the Royal College of Physicians , of a dispenser who accidentally swallowed some of the so-called " rice-water " matter voided by a patient in a state of collapse from cholera … but who suffered no ill-effects whatsoever ! " |
| 26 | After studying the detailed entries in the parish registers of a group of farming settlements in the Vale of York from 1777 onwards , Dr B. A. Holderness has concluded that , ‘ The picture which emerges is of village communities refreshed by an influx from similar settlements lying at a comparatively short distance away . ’ |
| 27 | But new research by Alan Bennett of Cornell University and Stephen Williams of Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania suggests that leaf closure in the Venus fly-trap ( Dionaea muscipula is due to rapid growth triggered by a drop in the pH of the cell walls of the leaf ( Science . |
| 28 | However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east . |
| 29 | The report " positively determined " that the crash which killed all 259 people on board Pan Am flight PA103 ( and 11 local residents in the Scottish town of Lockerbie ) , had resulted from an explosion within a luggage container triggered by a device fitted to a radio-cassette player . |
| 30 | Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility . |