Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun sg] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the empirical work below we deflate turnover by the nominal market value of domestic GDP . |
| 2 | MONEY and securities broking is doing well for MAI , the financial services and media combine run by the Labour peer , Lord Hollick . |
| 3 | Employers who supply 10 or more cars to employees for their private use will be able to pay the tax direct to the Contributions Agency as an alternative to the deductions being made on a Pay As You Earn basis by the Inland Revenue . |
| 4 | A hasty cut and stitch job by the Italian organisers restores Arab pride when a five-pointer was unfurled the next day . |
| 5 | Japanese traditionally set store by the heroic virtue of gaman , which means long-suffering perseverance . |
| 6 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 7 | In the case of inferior courts , that is , courts of a lower status than the High Court , such as the justices of the peace , it was recognised that their learning and understanding of the law might sometimes be imperfect and require correction by the High Court and so the rule evolved that certiorari was available to correct an error of law of an inferior court . |
| 8 | He said he could ‘ club ’ a golfer , hacker or scratch player by the second shot into the 3rd hole . |
| 9 | The crytic stage in the choroid plexus may also give the ‘ tryps ’ time to alter their surface antigens , and so escape destruction by the immune system ; the trick that has , to date , made it impossible to construct vaccines effective against them . |