Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 In The Times , an anonymous critic wrote : ‘ Resourcefully fey and lyrically frivolous , the new ‘ diversion with music ’ at the Lyric , Hammersmith — Share My Lettuce erratically follows in more familiar ( and more varied ) idioms the new directions in revue signposted by Cranks …
2 Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) .
3 Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) .
4 Injections of collagen , the protein in connective tissue , can build up soft depressions in skin caused by acne , age , injury , or disease .
5 Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees .
6 The case of Donoghue v. Stevenson is noted moreover for the general test as to liability in negligence propounded by Lord Atkin where he says : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour .
7 Even in the presence of a cold block , pin 2 mRNA levels increase in the unwounded leaf 1 in response to a mechanical wound to the cotyledon , as anticipated , and the increase is substantially greater than the trace increase in level induced by excision of the unwounded cotyledon .
8 Enchanting nights in Paradise Regained by Julian Allitt , Travel Editor
9 The plans were approved and work in progress inspected by LA .
10 In addition to the changes in teaching required by the introduction of GCSE there are many other changes in the air that impinge directly on the working lives of all teachers .
11 The threat of increased bills was in part offset by the 1pc tariff reduction , from the beginning of July .
12 The threat of increased bills was in part offset by the 1pc tariff reduction , from the beginning of July .
13 Thus , the Conservative attack on inflation and public-sector wage explosions was in part nullified by the Clegg awards on pay comparability .
14 However , international efforts to halt acid rain pollution ( in part caused by sulphur dioxide ) and to reverse the damage to the ozone layer were expected soon to have an effect , so that overall global warming would increase rapidly from the middle of next century .
15 Increased consumption of fossil fuels was in part caused by a 6 per cent reduction in electricity generated from nuclear power , due to a decline in imports of nuclear electricity from France and the prolonged shutdown of several nuclear power stations for maintenance .
16 The damage is in part caused by the increasing incidence of road edges being dug up for laying pipes , cables and power lines .
17 Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide .
18 He lived a life of luxury that was in part funded by misappropriated FBI funds and in part by shady friends .
19 The third sector , in part funded by ‘ strategic ’ money , is concerned with completely new products , which are becoming increasingly dependent on new processes .
20 The political and genealogical relationships which have already been exa-mined were grounded in a shared culture , itself in part determined by the church .
21 For though it has been suggested that Minton 's attendance at Lehmann 's soirées was in part determined by his hope of work , he would also have been stimulated by the company he met .
22 It therefore appears that the weak bleomycin cleaage of this central GA step is at least in part determined by the low affinity of the antibiotic .
23 ‘ There 's growing attention in the international community , in part generated by my own wanderings around the world .
24 This reduction is in part explained by the ending of free travel in Lothian for elderly and disabled people in September 1991 and the introduction of a subsidised flat-rate scheme instead .
25 Yet alongside this ideal — perhaps in part provoked by it — ran strong counter-currents .
26 This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians .
27 We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them .
28 The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border .
29 Officials said that the decision was in part motivated by concern that punishing Israel would undermine Israel 's position at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference , and aggravate further US-Israeli relations .
30 Gay culture is in part constituted by a self-reflexive , ironic representation of desire itself , gay and straight , and of the objects of desire , again both gay and straight .
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