Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-homogenously distributed data were analysed by the Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests . |
| 2 | Data were analysed by the χ 2 test . |
| 3 | Categorical data were analysed by the χ 2 test , and non-parametric continuous data by the Kruskall-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U ( two tailed ) tests . |
| 4 | The in vivo data were analysed by the Mann-Whitney U Wilcoxon analysis of variance and multiple analysed variance ( MANOVA ) tests by use of the SPSS/PC+ and the mini-tab statistical packages for the IBM PC . |
| 5 | Significance levels for comparative data were determined by the Wilcoxon signed rank test . |
| 6 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 7 | It continues the work of the Bristol Language project , supervised by Dr Gordon Wells , and follows up the foreign language school-based progress of the children whose first language developmental data were gathered by the Bristol team in the early 1970s . |
| 8 | All the data were used by the simulated annealing algorithm , whilst the filtering algorithm filtered out those probes without a vertical black line ( as potentially repetitive ) , and the grey clones ( as potentially coligated ) . |
| 9 | These data were supplemented by the radar ‘ looking ’ sideways at the surface , a rather subtle technique which I shall not describe . |
| 10 | A further 141 aircraft were destroyed by the allies either in the air or on the ground . |
| 11 | Perfect for fine hair , this jaw-length , soft bob was created by the design team at Schumi in London |
| 12 | An intimate relationship between musical harmony and the mathematical representation of physical data was epitomized by the correlation , ascribed to Pythagoras , between string length and pitch . |
| 13 | A donation of £10,000 was presented by the crew of Western Cove towards the upkeep and maintenance of Lerwick lifeboat station , a sum of £4,000 was presented by Western Challenger to cover the cost of new fuel storage tanks at Aberdeen and Western Reliance donated £10,000 towards the cost of the crew room at Teesmouth . |
| 14 | In 1983 34% of West Germany 's gas came from the Netherlands , 15% from Norway and the remaining 20% was supplied by the USSR . |
| 15 | In addition , branch and class members paid annual capitation subscriptions which were earmarked for three purposes : 20% was retained by the branch , 40% was remitted to the District and the other 40% was forwarded to the National Association . |
| 16 | However , it was a temporary hold , for on 6 March the three original German corps were reinforced by the three flanking corps : the 6th Reserve on the German right , the 15th and 5th Reserve on their left . |
| 17 | The cohesive solidarity of the medieval kin was ruptured by the impact of industrialisation and the result was a family form reduced to its essential core , of parents and offspring . |
| 18 | Michael Anderson has recently argued that in many areas factories offered a type and range of employment that could keep the family together , for co-residency of kin was complemented by the practice of hiring relatives in factories . |
| 19 | Their prospectus said Skerne was thinking of extending further into the bridge-building field , and £200,000 was secured by the sale of 10,000 £20 shares . |
| 20 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 21 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 22 | A 13 per cent hike in the interim dividend to 3.4p was accompanied by the promise of a 10 per cent rise in the final dividend . |
| 23 | A sum of £27,500,000 was paid by the United Arab Republic in final settlement of claims to property which was not being returned . |
| 24 | So , while 200 years ago people were kidnapped by the fairies , now it 's aliens . |
| 25 | In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms . |
| 26 | Germany now no longer existed and its remaining people were governed by the four victorious powers — the US , Soviet Union , Britain and France . |
| 27 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 28 | The demonstrations marked the tenth anniversary of an uprising when at least two hundred people were killed by the security forces . |
| 29 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 30 | To summarize , two positive images of elderly people were created by the employment debate . |