Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The package also proposed reducing the escalating cost of health care — which was expected to rise by an average of 12-13 per cent per annum for the next five years — by increasing the efficiency of the government 's Medicare and Medicaid health programmes , reforming the laws covering medical malpractice in order to give increased protection to doctors , and encouraging employers to pool their buying power into " health insurance networks " . |
| 2 | This is spectulative but not entirely fictional ; if it can be made to work by a combination of genetic and cellular engineering , it has amazing potential in gastroenterology . |
| 3 | Most classical choreographers still use this device when working with nineteenth-century ballet music , which was often written to order by a composer understanding the choreographer 's desire to show off a dancer . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 5 | If the initiative did not come from their mother it is hard to see either Richard , at fifteen , or Geoffrey , at fourteen , being persuaded to rebel by a man behind the scenes . |
| 6 | Years ago in Manchester , my husband was taught to meditate by a Yiddishe guru in Didsbury . |
| 7 | But , we fought back , showing true fighting spirit , and looked as though we were set to win by a couple of points before the Americans rallied , salvaged some pride and squared the match . |
| 8 | In both countries , the nature of managerial autonomy and the existence of an internal organizational structure and interests poses problems of transmission which the state has attempted to solve by a variety of overlapping mechanisms : statutory and financial frameworks , the invocation of market forces , the creation of political pressures , political bargaining and exchange , and direct intervention . |
| 9 | SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point . |
| 10 | James 's recall finally established the system of defence linked to attack by a midfield forager which was the key to the successes of the next decade . |
| 11 | We rather hope to be asked to dance by a couple of twenty-year-olds , do n't we , old thing ? ’ |
| 12 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
| 13 | A FAITHFUL dog who pined after his master died was put to sleep by a vet yesterday . |
| 14 | CHAMP , the faithful terrier who pined for his dead master , has been put to sleep by a vet . |
| 15 | Nightmares about being blown to fuck by a missile , ten years ago . |
| 16 | They are prompted to hibernate by a drop in temperature , but this cue only works if the days are also shortening . |