Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun pl] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their findings dramatically support the idea of accretionary or microplate tectonics advanced by geologists in recent years . |
| 2 | Even press passes issued by Cambridge police did not allow access closer than about three miles from the base . ’ |
| 3 | Attract birds to the garden by feeding them when their natural sources of food are scarce ; grow plants favoured by insect predators ( like limnanthes , cornflowers , eschscholzia , asters , chrysanthemums , robinia , philadelphus and spiraea ) , and respect the habitats of retiring predators such as beetles , frogs and bats . |
| 4 | Store Cattle : Medium weight ( 300399kg ) Simmental cross store steer prices fell by 1.5p to 111.1p per kg lw during the week ended 24 october while Charolais cross store steer prices rose slightly by 0.4p to 115.9p per kg lw Hereford cross store steer prices increased by 2.4p to 111.1p per kg lw . |
| 5 | Store cattle : Medium weight ( 300–399 kg ) Charolais cross store steer prices increased by 3.8p to average 160.8p per kg lw in the week ended May 29 . |
| 6 | The investigators explore issues raised by integration on a number of levels including the physical/technical system , computer hardware/software system , management information and control system , and the organisational system . |
| 7 | Match receipts slumped by £89,000 compared to 1991 , but profits were boosted by staging two Simply Red rock concerts . |
| 8 | E.g. Most Travel policies issued by Lloyds Underwriters include a ‘ non-contribution ’ clause . |
| 9 | Beside him , stuck in the snow , were a pair of skis and ski sticks surmounted by gloves of a colourful kind . |
| 10 | Nicholson 's are emphatically not backstreet boozers populated by men in cloth caps talking about their ferrets . |
| 11 | We know them immediately as reflections , just as we appreciate shadows cast by objects as they obstruct the passage of light . |
| 12 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 13 | They record dues owed by peasants to landlords ; and they are snapshots of particular points in time . |
| 14 | Southampton has some of the best records ; its brokage books record tolls paid by merchants or carters entering or leaving the city . |
| 15 | It is open to additional carriers that meet criteria set by AT&T , which is particularly keen to win support from some Europeans and is no doubt knocking hard on the door of Unisource BV , the joint venture between Sweden 's Televerket and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which so far has proved the most successful among such ventures — and already has loose links with both AT&T and Kokusai Denshin in Eastern Europe and points further east . |
| 16 | About 70 per cent of personal computers worldwide incorporate parts made by Intel , which employs 20,000 . |
| 17 | Control signals sent by subscribers down the lines to the local switch point call up whichever of the services on the main trunk line they wish , or are entitled , to receive . |
| 18 | The professionals are also applauding goodies like low-level file functions and conditional compilations , both of which fill gaps exposed by dBase competitors , like Clipper . |
| 19 | ‘ There are one or two people who claim that they now remember hints dropped by Kim Philby , but I ca n't say I can remember anything at all . ’ |
| 20 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
| 21 | Immune bodies which destroy microorganisms are called antibodies and those which destroy toxins produced by microorganisms are called antitoxins . |
| 22 | Ministries and state committees headed by Cabinet members came above co-ordinating committees and departments not headed by Cabinet ministers , which in turn would be above federal agencies and services . |
| 23 | The positive result documented by lane 2 also shows that the reaction does not depend on the special sequence context of the Dcm recognition site provided by the upper strand ( compare experiments documented by Figures 5 and 6 ) and , in addition , that the reaction is not restricted to the C[5-FC]AGG half-site but also works with C[5-FC]TGG . |
| 24 | Baobab trees attacked by disease |
| 25 | 9.9 Development of an m-derived section from a Π-section ; ( a ) prototype , ( b ) shunt arms divided by m where , leaving the series arm to be determined and ( c ) complete Π-type m-derived section with two parallel impedances in the series arm so as to achieve the same characteristic impedance as the prototype . |
| 26 | They combine exercises inspired by isometrics , aerobics , Callanetics and yoga — all wrapped into one fun routine which you can practise to music . |
| 27 | The new HyperSparc models use boards manufactured by ICL according its CPU 2 — two processors to a board — design . |
| 28 | The scheme was launched in 1975 , at a time of high oil prices ; today , more than 4 million of Brazil 's 12 million car owners use vehicles powered by sugar-cane alcohol ( or ethanol ) . |
| 29 | In most countries bank deposits transferred by means of cheques are freely accepted in the discharge of debts and as such constitute as much a part of a country 's money supply as its bank notes . |
| 30 | Begin 1993 with Dundee cake and fruit shortbread layers followed by panfuls of pancakes in February . |