Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only a few births occur to teenagers who are under 18 years old , then the infant mortality of the " under 20 " maternal age group may be dominated by the lower mortality at maternal ages 18–19 , which may explain the apparent " anomaly " of the Danish data . |
| 2 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 3 | Exporting activity in most sectors is dominated by the larger companies and this is particularly true of the Office machinery and data processing sector where the predominance of multinationals leads to large companies representing 98.7% of all exports in this sector . |
| 4 | If the tasks to be done are more complex , and surrounded by a higher degree of uncertainty , then co-ordination may be done more efficiently through instructions and information passed down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 5 | That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . |
| 6 | If you 're willing to pay the first £100 of any claim , your premium will fall by a further 10% . |
| 7 | As suggested , the CD3 is a simple , almost artless player , rather heavier than it looks , but simply built , with a bent metal box fronted by a smart alloy front panel extrusion and a drawer whose rather stately progress in and out of the player was bettered by an earlier sample I examined . |
| 8 | The seminar was organised by the Taller Nueva Comunicación ( New Communication Workshop ) and supported by WACC 's Latin American Regional Association . |
| 9 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the fact that so much violent crime is committed by the younger generation — the modern equivalent of the sons of the primal father — certainly seems to point to a fundamental failure in socialization or , in other words , in superego-formation . |
| 11 | The trade-weighted index was also lifted by the better sentiment towards the pound , rising from a historic opening low of 75.7 to end at 76.3 . |
| 12 | Direct subsidies are expected to increase by a further £100 million this year . |
| 13 | That fund is set to increase by a further £1 million next year , and I certainly expect motor projects to figure significantly within that increased expenditure . |
| 14 | Although Abadia was respected by the lower ranks , his appointment was understood to have caused widespread resentment amongst senior officers who interpreted it as a breach of the seniority rule , hitherto strictly adhered to . |
| 15 | As well as the Lewisian orthogneisses described above , several outcrops of metamorphic rocks occur which were undoubtedly derived from sedimentary rocks , and the old term paragneiss has been used to describe these , although this has now been superseded by the simpler term metasediments . |
| 16 | The t table has since been superseded by the fatter chips and bigger bytes of modern computing ; the pop-up menus of today 's statistical packages tempt the unwary with an appetising range of p values hardly imaginable in 1965 . |
| 17 | Woollen cloth led but was increasingly supplemented by a wider range of manufactured goods as well as by re-exports of tobacco , sugar and dyes . |
| 18 | The £1033 he received in sponsorship for the jump was supplemented by a further £1000 from the Forties field charity committee . |
| 19 | These three hours of teaching are in turn supplemented by a further hour of lectures on the history of the Graeco-Roman world in New Testament times , on the theology of the New Testament , and on questions of date , authorship and purpose of the individual books of the New Testament . |
| 20 | Pope was given a leaving present of £25 , soon supplemented by a further £25 to his widow . |
| 21 | Moreover , this needs to be supplemented by the further safeguard of an external , independent monitoring system . |
| 22 | There was no reason why God should not have reserved opportunities for fresh discoveries to be enjoyed by a later generation . |
| 23 | The medieval bridge , built in 1392 and demolished c. 1856 , was a little distance south-west of the modern road bridge and is recorded as having been preceded by an earlier bridge on the same line ; it had ten waterways set between stone piers and a timber superstructure , a method of construction commonly used by Roman engineers . |
| 24 | She was bullied by an older child of the foster family and did not receive the protection from the foster parents which she deserved . |
| 25 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 26 | And then his eye was caught by a smaller heading in one corner : ‘ Granard tragedy . |
| 27 | Irene , with an apparently much more complicated nature , felt restricted and confined by the simpler-natured Soames : |
| 28 | If the inherent friction torque of the system can be neglected the equation for the rotor position relative to equilibrium ( 4.3 ) is modified by the damper torque : So the single step response of a system with a VCID is third-order , compared to the second-order Eqn . |
| 29 | While the researches of Comstock and Needham form the basis for the interpretation of venation , their original conceptions have been modified by the later work of Lameere ( 1922 ) , Hamilton ( 1972 ) and many papers by Martynov and Tillyard . |
| 30 | Profit margins have generally been squeezed by the higher cost of imports , said Trade Indemnity spokeswoman Barbara Bennett . |