Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corresponding carbon dioxide emissions were down by a similar amount . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , nablab sales in the off-trade , which is traditionally less affected by recessionary pressure , were down by a third . |
| 3 | At Penguin , trading profits were £26.3m — and increase of 101% or , if the impact of the Smithmark and New York lease problems of the previous year is excluded , of 31.5% — while at Longman , operating profits were up by a hefty 38% , to £23.5m . |
| 4 | Individual membership declined by a quarter — from 408 , 844 in 1939 to 304 , 124 in 1940 — and by the end of 1941 it was down by a further third — to 206 , 622 . |
| 5 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 6 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |