Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bournville and New Earswick were followed by other estates put up by Industrial Housing Associations such as Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight , and many more recent ones , to the present number of about fifty-four . |
| 2 | But Prudential finance director Michael Lawrence says that the bids put in by all the firms on the tender shortlist were ‘ virtually all of an allness on fees ’ . |
| 3 | Fares go up by 10 per cent in February . |
| 4 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 5 | TAKARE , the nursing-homes group which has three establishments in Scotland , saw 1992 pre-tax profits soar by by 56 per cent , from £7.6 million to £11.8 million , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 6 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 7 | The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods , under their leader Zeus , supposedly located on Mount Olympus , who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises . |
| 8 | The numbers go up by successive doublings , from 8 to 16 , 32 , 64 , 128 , 256 , 512 , 1,024 , 2,048 , 4,096 , 8,192 . |
| 9 | Income tax thresholds and allowances go up by six point eight per cent . |
| 10 | These resemblances come about by single-step selection , that is to say by a single coincidence . |
| 11 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 12 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 13 | As new syntactic categories settle down by innovative accretion along the lines suggested , the complex mesh of grammatical relations becomes the cloth of an ever-changing community coat . |