Example sentences of "[vb past] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In performing so well , BRC beat by 16 seconds Dublin University who have won at Erne and Galweay Heads and were the second Irish crew at Laganside Head . |
| 2 | Prices rose by one-and-a-half times during the course of the war , which represented a significant achievement by the authorities . |
| 3 | Higher pensions were payable to those who remained in work beyond this age ; these rose by annual increments for all retiring up to the age of 65/70 . |
| 4 | His public standing rose by 18 points in public opinion polls immediately after Guzmán 's capture , and analysts believed that government-sponsored candidates now stood a good chance of commanding a majority in the Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) to be elected on Nov. 22 [ see p. 39048 ] . |
| 5 | The yen gained Y1.35 to trade at Y142.25 to the dollar and sterling rose by 0.57 cents to $1.6102 . |
| 6 | This drew a flood of zinc to the LME ; stocks rose by 34,300 tonnes to 102,800 tonnes — almost a seven-year high . |
| 7 | In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled . |
| 8 | The Australian Democrats increased their vote by some 2 percentage points to around 5.5 per cent without winning a seat , while the vote for the independent candidates rose by 0.7 points to almost 11 per cent . |
| 9 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 10 | Whilst exports to the dollar area rose by three times in current terms between 1947 and 1951 , as a share of total exports the increase ( from 11.5 to 14.5 per cent ) was only marginal . |
| 11 | Gold production rose by 144 kilograms to 29,594 kilograms , despite a 3 p.c. dip in the amount of ore milled to 3.51m tonnes . |
| 12 | On Oct. 4 Memphis , Tennessee , elected its first black mayor , Willie Herenton , who defeated by 172 votes the two-term incumbent Richard Hackett . |
| 13 | Hong Kong , about 14 hours flight from London , is at first sight like a futuristic Ridley Scott vision of a city , sitting encircled by treacherous mountains on the edge of China . |
| 14 | Er item five on the minutes was , Can we combat the competition posed by other children 's activities ? |
| 15 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 16 | Set up reinforced by advanced Intelloids who are Posi-sisters ’ . |
| 17 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 18 | One way to test this possibility is to ask direct questions about the incidence of these experiences in housework , and compare them with that reported by other groups of workers . |
| 19 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 20 | It relates punishment to the economic structure of the society in which it takes place and to the class interests furthered by penal practices and ideologies . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , ’ he greeted Maxim ; ‘ do I see you refreshed by two days of country air ? |
| 22 | While not solely triggered by political concerns , they all eventually focused on the need for reform and the lack of democratisation . |
| 23 | Are these dreams really triggered by outside stimuli , or are these reports only the outcome of rather memorable coincidence ? |
| 24 | It also urges the government to calculate the costs of allergies and asthma triggered by environmental factors , and to speed up the finalization of promised guidelines on the rights of people to smoke-free air at work and in public places and the segregation of smokers and non-smokers . |
| 25 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 26 | Provisions of the Constitution are developed and molded by judicial decisions . |
| 27 | PLANS for Britain 's first commercial power station to be fuelled by household refuse were this week rubbished by old hands in the municipal waste business . |
| 28 | If this is an automatic DC created by reserving modules in the options 1.1.0 — Reserve Module Names Index , it will already be AGREED ( state 3 ) . |
| 29 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 30 | Moreover , the greater use of semi-skilled labour , either in new processes or in those previously monopolized by apprenticed tradesmen , not only threatened to undermine job security but also helped to create a new and indeterminate category of ‘ skill ’ . |