Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 2 | PUT DOWN BY ONE LINE |
| 3 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Four out of five US resellers who carry Unix software estimate their Unix sales will increase by a average of 49% for the period 1991 to 1993 and are planning to expand their wares , according to ‘ A Study Conducted Among Unix and Unix-Related Product Resellers ’ run up by New Jersey-based Ralph Head & Affiliates . |
| 6 | . Well I expect we ought to go over , do some work got you a loaf , but I did n't get nothing else , if we just pop round by Swiss Bakery . |
| 7 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 8 | I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government . |
| 9 | Income tax thresholds and allowances go up by six point eight per cent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 12 | These resemblances come about by single-step selection , that is to say by a single coincidence . |