Example sentences of "bring [adv prt] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless your cholesterol level is off the scale ( by which I mean approaching double figures when measured in millimoles per litre ) , the degree of change in absolute coronary risk that you can bring about by dietary measures is spitting in the wind . |
| 2 | It has been reported that spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity brought on by mononuclear cells can be inhibited by SASP but not by corticosteroid , and that ADCC is not influenced by SASP or corticosteroid . |
| 3 | ( 1987 ) found at least 76 per cent of depressive illness in the general population to be brought on by severe events or major difficulties . |
| 4 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 5 | During this transition , the retirement age was brought down by five years , staffing numbers were reduced , the unprofitable office in Edinburgh was closed , procedures were modified and attitudes changed , a research department was established , some shuffling of the partners took place , and the youngest of them , Nigel Humphreys , was appointed Managing Director . |
| 6 | Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable . |
| 7 | The 300 surviving Uru Eu Wau Wau Indians , whose lands were opened up to outside exploitation by the road project , are said to be suffering from diseases brought in by illegal miners . |
| 8 | Pieces from continental Europe were brought in by other POETS group companies , and P&O Containers transported works from Japan and the USA . |
| 9 | Visa restrictions brought in by foreign governments in co-operation with the Chinese authorities in March and April of 1988 did little to reduce the queues of hopefuls in the embassy districts of Beijing and Shanghai . |
| 10 | The G M B supports a fresh approach to industrial relations ' law with a completely new legislative code which brings international standards fully into the U K. President , we are totally opposed to the repressive trade union laws brought in by Tory governments over the last fourteen years . |
| 11 | Today saw the first of four weekly auctions , and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers . |
| 12 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 13 | Of the 82 ‘ index ’ children — those brought in by social workers or others with suspicion of abuse , or those where the paediatricians saw signs they believed consistent with abuse — 86 per cent , she says , fall into the Department of Health guidelines , issued since Cleveland , as having medical signs which should raise the question of sexual abuse . |
| 14 | I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child . |
| 15 | Only among the poor , the retainers who had accompanied their masters and later fallen from favour , or among the half-caste children brought up by superstitious mothers true to their old faith , did the little goddess of love and war retain a true following . |
| 16 | How he had been named Ish-kay-nay and brought up by these Chiricahuas and made the son of Sonsichay , one of the sub-chiefs of the band . |
| 17 | She had been brought up by clear-thinking women . |
| 18 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 19 | This dichotomy between rich and poor in rural populations is also brought out by other variables , for example , an above average share of owner-occupied housing is counterbalanced by an above-average share of unfurnished privately rented accommodation ( probably tied cottages ) . |
| 20 | The term programming is used for long term changes in the body 's structure , physiology , or metabolism brought about by environmental influences acting at critical stages of early life . |
| 21 | Most of us therefore tend to think that strikes are brought about by specific disagreements , over pay for example , or over alleged misconduct by workers or managers . |
| 22 | Hence the viscous dissipation is associated with high wavenumbers ; i.e. it is brought about by small eddies . |
| 23 | The two major revolutions of modern times in the region , Cuba ( 1959 ) and Nicaragua ( 1979 ) , were both brought about by multi-class coalitions . |
| 24 | This long-term change was far more striking than short-term cyclical variations brought about by political tensions or fluctuations in the general level of economic activity . |
| 25 | Lexical items might be used instead so that the focusing effect is brought about by extra words . |
| 26 | Things would n't have been so bleak , perhaps , if the dramatic rise in population had been brought about by healthier times and a consequent increase in life expectancy ; in the event , many scholars would cite a different cause or causes for it — like the fact that the decline of the apprenticeship system meant that couples were marrying younger , and so increasing the number of child-bearing years per family . |
| 27 | However , the foundation of a new settlement/cemetery may be the result of shifting patterns brought about by such things as soil exhaustion and plague , or they may be new settlements caused by a growth of population . |
| 28 | Melrose secretary Stuart Henderson commented : ‘ If changes were brought about by other bodies we would have to look at what we do . |
| 29 | Wing movements are brought about by powerful muscles , the depressor and elevator pectoral muscles . |
| 30 | The company 's poor performance has been brought about by adverse factors that have dogged Lowndes since it bought out Harris Queensway , which had grown fast in the early 1980s only to fall on more difficult times . |