Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the decade 1970–80 , serious crimes recorded by the police increased for nearly every category : violence against the person rose by 136 per cent , burglary by 44 per cent , robbery by 138 per cent , theft and handling by 54 per cent and fraud and forgery by 18 per cent . |
| 2 | The company 's sales operations in the United Kingdom were based in Berkshire and controlled by one of its directors . |
| 3 | As the jury foreman delivered the guilty verdit , Kelly , standing in the dock and flanked by three prison officers , showed no emotion . |
| 4 | After a shaky start , Tyrone moved into top gear and led by five points at half-time with a series of spectacular points by Ciaran McBride , Colm Donnelly and Brian Catterson . |
| 5 | The one-day course , held at Brunel Technical College and attended by 25 people , began with lecture demonstrations explaining the scientific principles of cooking and ended with a gourmet meal in the company of tutors and guests , which provided an opportunity to discuss science in general . |
| 6 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |
| 7 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 8 | The demonstration coincided with the official inauguration of Eduardo Villaseñor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) as state governor , in a ceremony attended by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and protected by 2,000 police and federal troops . |
| 9 | Then the couple entered the carriage , lined with white satin and drawn by eight bays , for the return to the Tuileries . |
| 10 | At High Wycombe a more sanitary state of affairs persisted with the erection of several guild altars in the Chapel of the Trinity and Our Lady , built over the bone-hole and served by two chantry priests . |
| 11 | A large cedar-barque rode at anchor , still loaded with its expensive cargo and guarded by two men armed with spears and swords . |
| 12 | Clear or vegetable soup , served with one slice of toast and followed by two pieces of fresh fruit . |
| 13 | The ‘ real local enthusiasm ’ has not been generated by this organisation : why was there no mention of the petition prepared by the STPS and signed by four of the five communities surrounding Laganas Bay , the Zakynthos hoteliers ' association , and the local association of communities ? |
| 14 | He took command three from home and won by ten lengths , but Davies , with a typical wisecrack at trainer Gardie Grissell , exclaimed : ‘ I thought you could train — he blew up at the water . ’ |
| 15 | British and German inflation rates have moved together , but the German economy is growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent. , while the British economy is in recession and shrinking by 2.5 per cent . |
| 16 | PER CENT ( PERCENTAGE ) — A proportion or a part in a hundred ; i.e. the number of cases of a part divided by the number of total cases and multiplied by 100 . |
| 17 | This rise in prices is eliminated from the figures by dividing national income by the price index and multiplying by 100 . |
| 18 | The work ends with a more elaborate finale : two five-part stanzas ( see Ex. 79 ) sung and danced by the whole chorus ; an aria a 3 sung by three women ‘ without dancing ’ ; a short instrumental ritornello ( melody and bass only given ) ‘ repeated several times and danced by two soloists of the chorus ’ ; two more stanzas of Ex. 79 ; another stanza of the aria but this time sung by three tenors ; and a final pair of stanzas of Ex. 79 . |
| 19 | This year 's seventh annual SAGA print fair , held in the Grand Palais alongside the Salon du Dessin de Collection from 3 to 8 March and attended by 138 dealers , attracted 32,000 visitors and recorded a turnover of around FFr10 million , an increase on last year . |
| 20 | Brian McEniff 's side took on a full strength Roscommon in a challenge match at the week-end and won by six points . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Add the wine and reduce by two-thirds . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , at an ITTO seminar in Cambridge , chaired by the UK and attended by 10 of the organization 's members , it was decided to suppress the report on the grounds that it might damage trade . |
| 25 | Most recently , it has acquired HN-5A infra-red guided anti-aircraft missiles , which are Chinese copies of the Soviet SAM 7 missiles and described by one military analyst as a cheap version of the Stingers used by the resistance in Afghanistan . |
| 26 | Suleyman 's own medreses , built round his mosque in Istanbul and completed by 966/1559 , were to form the top rungs in the fully elaborated hierarchy of medreses , though they seem not to have achieved exclusive claim to this pre-eminence immediately . |
| 27 | Peak acid output was calculated by adding the two highest stimulated 15 minute outpts and multiplying by two . |
| 28 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Once Korn/Ferry 's annual fee income — growing at an annual rate of 30% — had overtaken that of Heidrick and Struggles by 1978 and Boyden by 1979 , they sought overseas expansion . |