Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The econometric work will be undertaken on a data set constructed by CURDS at the University of Newcastle which details the adoption dates of nine technologies in approximately 1500 firms in the metalworking and engineering industry . |
| 2 | Despite the slightly unsatisfactory nature of the data set used by Lucas , and although the tests he applied were hardly rigorous , his paper was influential in that it was one of the first to show that certain of the predictions made by the rational expectations hypothesis were not entirely inconsistent with the data . |
| 3 | As soon as A's and B's deliveries have both been made , C's 15 cwt. become ascertained by exhaustion , since it is then possible to say that all the potatoes left on the lorry are destined for C. Now suppose that before the lorry is despatched , C sells his 15 cwt. to B and arranges with S that the lorry shall drop 40 cwt. to B in Bristol . |
| 4 | In that case B's 40 cwt. become ascertained by exhaustion as soon as A's 60 cwt. have been unloaded . |
| 5 | Whilst Hobbes described the rational structure of such a concentration of power and developed it into a veritable philosophy of power , Locke , taking up the challenge , demanded that the exercise of this power , although it was derived from the ultimate and unified source of all power the people remain divided by virtue of a fundamental decision . |
| 6 | All that was left was a media exercise staged by Peter Mandelson , the party 's director of communications . |
| 7 | By 1981 , a Harlequin trade advertisement could boast that ‘ In eight years , sales have increased by 800% and research shows that the romance category can easily double . ’ |