Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the problems associated with old age can be warded off by eating enough of the right foods . |
| 2 | However , because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio . |
| 3 | This organisation chart approach would be carried out by implementing each department 's system in turn . |
| 4 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 5 | WELL , not everyone is turned on by talking dirty . |
| 6 | These circuits are built up by creating microscopic layers of metal and other components on small wafers of silicon , or ‘ chips ’ , using a special photographic technique known a photolithography . |
| 7 | Since television pictures are built up by interlacing two half-frames , the factor of 50 updates per second means that the picture is updated at 25 complete frames each second . |
| 8 | The numbers 1,2,3,5 , and 7 have not been made up by multiplying other numbers together . |
| 9 | Standards were made up by drawing 5 ml of venous blood daily for four days after injection of the labelled red cells . |
| 10 | Line graphs ( see figure 13 ) are drawn up by constructing two scales : |
| 11 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 12 | To represent this spiders are not slowed down by crossing difficult ground or obstacles . |
| 13 | Usually LIFESPAN can be called up by typing one word , as set up by the LIFESPAN Manager , and details are given by the Help facility . |
| 14 | BRITISH Telecom will unveil later this month a sight for sore eyes — or at least for bleary eyed business travellers worn out by taking early morning shuttle flights to meetings on the Continent . |
| 15 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |
| 16 | Perhaps the point can be best brought out by considering first authority as it functions in one , not untypical , context . |
| 17 | But in order to be understood it needs to be seen within its original context of faith in one God who can only be spoken about by using metaphorical language . |
| 18 | American supermarkets have hit back by cutting many of their prices and printing more money off coupons . |
| 19 | No listen , listen you 've got ta listen to this my girlfriend and I have sex whenever we can and really enjoy it oral sex but we have heard that sexually transmitted diseases can be passed on by drinking each other 's juices from oral sex , is this true ? |
| 20 | The new obsession with trendy design was indulged in by scattering diamond-shaped symbols around the pages . |
| 21 | Animal sports were put down by crusading urban and evangelical pressure . |
| 22 | There is usually no way of enforcing attendance , so such threats have to be taken seriously , and perhaps worked through by paying special attention to their particular feelings and needs . |
| 23 | Potential customers for freeze branding could well be put off by seeing this biased statement in a reputable magazine . |
| 24 | This time is taken up by reading each word from the ASCII file , working through it letter by letter , allocating any new nodes required and setting up the pointers correctly . |
| 25 | David would always be seen in public , would always have to do interviews , do a video or go into a recording studio — so I think the whole time was taken up by feeling involved in the whole Ziggy period or Ziggy way of thinking . |
| 26 | The deal is a blow to the video-pirates , who have cashed in by selling illegal copies . |
| 27 | The evidence does indicate in a high-employment economy the proportion of workers to non-workers can be kept up by keeping more people in full- or part-time work past the current retirement age . |