Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads . |
| 2 | With no volume gains and falling prices , like-for-like sales in shoes fell back by 1.5 per cent in the six months to 31 July . |
| 3 | It 's beautiful to think there 's a man who spends his life going from hotel to hotel , paying chambermaids to let him look in beds slept in by women , in the hope of finding some hairs ! |
| 4 | Every other kind of map must be a ‘ map-to-read ’ and requires some study ; it is implicit in experiments carried out by Kraak ( 1989 ) that such maps are not suitable for temporary display on a computer screen . |
| 5 | Users had to present their data in ways laid down by the DP department ; they found themselves bound by the DP department 's priorities rather than by their own ; and , in addition , they had to compete with colleagues for use of the computer 's facilities . |
| 6 | He suggests that gradual movements in share prices caused by insider dealing are preferable to the erratic jumps in prices brought about by enforced disclosure . |
| 7 | Very likely there was a general cut in wages brought about by a combination of causes , not the least of which was the loss of an employer who may very well have paid premium rates in order to attract and retain labour ; in any case the living standards of the cloth workers had fallen sharply by 1524 , and with them those of the farm labourers of the other villages in the district . |
| 8 | Microsoft claims FoxPro 2.5 performed at least four times better than its closest rival , Borland 's Paradox 4.0 , in tests carried out by a third party consultant.FoxPro 2.5 will eventually be released for non-Windows DOS , Apple Mac and Unix platforms . |
| 9 | Another consortium headed by London-based Deminex , will drill a neighbouring block , in fields divided up by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 . |