Example sentences of "[vb base] by [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amphibians usually lay their eggs in water and go through an aquatic larval stage as tadpoles , when they breath by means of gills . |
| 2 | It is thought that high-mass X-ray binaries accrete primarily from a stellar wind escaping from the companion star whereas LMXBs accrete by means of Roche-lobe overflow into a disc ; a viable hypothesis is that QPOs are a generic feature of disc accretion , regardless of the precise nature of the compact object . |
| 3 | It is unprecedented to deny people benefit by means of a statutory instrument tabled and coming into force when the House is not sitting . |
| 4 | In 1990 the company saw its pre-tax profits drop by 36% to £977m ( $1.7 billion ) on sales of £12.9 billion . |
| 5 | For earlier in the day they saw in-calf heifer averages drop by over £200 and bulling heifers drop by £88 on the year at the spring event . |
| 6 | Here the three criteria of ( *a ) explainability , ( *b ) comprehensiveness and ( *c ) positivity intertwine , as I indicate by means of the asterisks : The problem for the atheist is to provide a convincing account ( *a ) of religious experience , and with it of the entire ( *b ) religious history of mankind , which will do justice ( *c ) to its character and effects . |
| 7 | They reproduce by means of minute spores , which form in clusters on the undersides of the fronds , or sometimes on specially modified fronds . |
| 8 | The horsetails reproduce by means of spores , which are born in small cone-like structures at the tip of the branches or on modified shoots . |
| 9 | It also secured its own connection with the Islington Cattle Market by means of Holloway unloading pens and a private road . |
| 10 | Detergent systems operate by means of an electronic sensor fitted in the wash tank of a machine or the re-circulation tank of a CIP system . |
| 11 | During parsing , these constraints operate by means of Prolog unification . |
| 12 | All-out strike by staff at two Harrogate hospitals began . |
| 13 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 14 | In the sedimentation tube technique the particles are released simultaneously from the water surface , a process achieved by holding a 2–5 g sample on a platen by means of a wetting agent and lowering it into the water surface . |
| 15 | Illustrate by means of examples from your own bank . |
| 16 | It is for ministers to determine themselves , whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they make an oral statement . |
| 17 | Ministers of course always determine for themselves whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they come to the despatch box and make a statement . |
| 18 | That would reverse a trend which has seen customer disconnections fall by 70pc in the last 12 months . |
| 19 | That would reverse a trend which has seen customer disconnections fall by 70pc in the last 12 months . |
| 20 | Direct labour costs increase by £1 per hour |
| 21 | As we have said , it is well established in scientific circles that ants and many other creatures , too , communicate by means of external molecular signals known as pheromones . |
| 22 | Do plants , then , also communicate by means of airborne pheromones or in some other , perhaps more subtle fashion , as well ? |
| 23 | ‘ That was not a simple case of a husband obtaining a document from his wife ; it was also a case where the document had been obtained by a trustee from his cestui que trust by means of pressure and the concealment of material facts … |
| 24 | Face masks work by means of a mild exfoliating action , stripping off surface dead-skin cells . |
| 25 | Stabilise 1998 traffic at 1990 levels ; reduce by 15% by 2010 . |