Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increase the heat under the stock and reduce by half . |
| 2 | Prostaglandins inhibit acid secretion and their synthesis and release by gastric mucosal cells is enhanced by exposure to ethanol . |
| 3 | On Jan. 28 this founding congress suffered a split and walkout by some 100 delegates led by Tadeusz Fiszbach , who criticized the attempt to create a successor party without a sufficiently clear break with the communist past . |
| 4 | It has an innocent enough title — The Needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers from their Medical Departments in the 1990s — and in it he very reasonably argues that an increasingly sophisticated public , provided with alarming insights concerning drugs like Opren and thalidomide by such philosophical weeklies as the Sunday Times , is going to demand a great deal more information about the many medicines doctors so recklessly prescribe , ( Those are n't quite the terms he uses , by the way . ) |
| 5 | Escorted Transfers to Floriade and return by modern coach . |
| 6 | According to the report , the government is set to increase power-station capacity in England and Wales by 39 percent and demand by 50 per cent by 1997 . |
| 7 | We will start on Friday evening and finish by late Saturday afternoon . |
| 8 | Add the wine and reduce by two-thirds . |
| 9 | Cook for 2 minutes , add the wine and reduce by half . |
| 10 | It is a matter too of the autonomy with which the state apparatus can operate in order to serve the interest of this class as a whole by remaining free from colonization and control by one of its diverse fractions . |
| 11 | The major Caledonian basic-ultrabasic intrusive complexes of north-east Scotland ( Wadsworth , 1982 ) have been investigated for copper , nickel , titanium and PGE by several mining companies and the BGS . |
| 12 | They may feel discouraged at the magnitude of the task before them , and gain a sense of achievement and control by isolating parts and dealing with them thoroughly . |
| 13 | Prices , based on accommodation located centrally or in Frankfurt suburbs , include a fair entrance ticket and travel by scheduled airline from UK airports , including Heathrow , Gatwick and Stansted . |
| 14 | REFERENCES : Reference article pp. 37336-42 ; June 1990 Tiananmen Square anniversary , release of Fang Lizhi pp. 37531-32 ; August Premier 's south-east Asia tour p. 37656 ; September replacement of Li Peng in Economic Commission and visit by Soviet Foreign Minister pp. 37713-14 . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it is insufficient to total the number of weeks of holiday to be taken in the year by staff and divide by fifty-two . |
| 16 | The principal exhibition in the visual arts section is ‘ Border Crossings : fourteen Scandinavian Artists ’ ( 11 November to 7 February ) which includes work by Munch , Strindberg , Carl Fredrik Hill , Asger Jorn , Per Kirkeby and work by Finnish and Icelandic artists . |
| 17 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 18 | Yesterday 's leader article on Austria in The Times concluded : ’ The Community must itself look east and rebuild by free trade those shattered economies if the migration on which far-right reaction feeds is to be stemmed ’ . |
| 19 | The holders , Hammy McMillan 's Stranraer , had a 4 at the eighth to break Warwick Smith 's Perth and win by 9-3 . |
| 20 | He required the Council to ‘ commune and treat by ripe advisement of convenient provision for the said voyage ’ . |
| 21 | Often when on a winter 's night we youngsters were seated round the hearth … would she set her wheel aside , take a pinch of snuff , hutch her chair towards the other hob , and excite our curiosity and wonder by strange and fearful tales of witches , spirits , and apparitions , whilst we listened in silence and awe , and scarcely breathing , contemplated in imagination , the visions of an unseen world , which her narratives conjured up before us . |
| 22 | However , the Peking Youth News has reported that ‘ many people ’ are worried about the high incidence of wrongful arrest and torture by martial law forces and police . |
| 23 | We have set targets that , from a 1990 base , BP Chemicals will halve its hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere and reduce by two-thirds its emissions to water by 1997 . |
| 24 | Add 300ml/½ point of Goose stock ( see the following recipe ) , one tablespoon of tomato purée and a bay leaf and reduce by half . |
| 25 | Bring the wine with the onions to the boil and reduce by half . |