Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their cheery , knees-up-Muvver-Brown , cock-er-nee grin gradually became eroded by a grim awareness of reality as the Thatcher years dragged on . |
| 2 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 3 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 4 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 5 | Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously , investment has actually fallen . |
| 6 | In the past year , unemployment has risen by a massive 47 per cent. , but instead of rising by a similar amount , expenditure in 1991-92 will be 10 per cent . |
| 7 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 8 | In the last year , the construction level in the province has crumbled by a massive 18.5pc . |
| 9 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 10 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 11 | Almost immediately , however , a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee . |
| 12 | And it 's these developments that the borough council wishes to see embraced by a new policy . |
| 13 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 14 | Fulmars planed below , stubby necked , stiff-winged : a short burst of flapping followed by a long glide . |
| 15 | As a result , by the early 1900s , a nationalist undercurrent was developing led by a charismatic young man , Mustafa Kamil , and though there were strikes and demonstrations ( which were to become a regular feature of Egyptian political life ) , Britain remained as unmoved , aloof and arrogant as ever . |
| 16 | Alan Austin and the Barley Brothers seemed afflicted by a similar grading paralysis on Yorkshire limestone . |
| 17 | He loved to dwell also on the analogies between plants and animals , remarking in 1843 that ‘ both kingdoms seem pervaded by a double representation of each other ’ . |
| 18 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 19 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 20 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 21 | Initially , the women were doubtless drawn by the glamour of the nurse 's uniform and by a sense of adventure ; later , as the French women who had not lost a husband , lover or brother became fewer and fewer , the more frivolous motives became replaced by a formidable dedication . |
| 22 | Like multiples , variety chains consist of more than ten stores , usually situated in High Streets or shopping precincts , with buying organised by a central office . |
| 23 | Secondly , his pre-match preparation was excellent with his faith in the Queen 's Gambit Declined rewarded by a solid score with black . |
| 24 | Then there are problems of translation ; A distant relative 's long-distant and fairly Meaningless tribute , ‘ We sha n't forget old Vanya ’ , Gets translated into funeralese as ‘ We shall never forget you ’ , which in turn Gets translated by a deaf florist into ‘ We shall love you forever ’ . |
| 25 | But at that moment the nurse returned accompanied by a white-coated bespectacled young doctor , who frowned when he saw Curtis and Springfield . |
| 26 | No , nor had I , but anyone who has ever lost young fish when they have been mashed up by an impeller , or lost the impeller itself when it has become fouled by a hard foreign body , will appreciate the advantages . |
| 27 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 28 | ‘ I got zapped by a flying saucer , ’ Bill explained . |
| 29 | If we 'd have put in a price based on A C scaled fees , we would have overspent by a hundred and fifty five percent . |
| 30 | That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . |