Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A camel is a horse which got designed by a committee . |
| 2 | In fact the node became trapped by a strike and was eventually delivered very late . |
| 3 | Their cheery , knees-up-Muvver-Brown , cock-er-nee grin gradually became eroded by a grim awareness of reality as the Thatcher years dragged on . |
| 4 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 5 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 6 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 7 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 8 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 9 | The balance of this reduced population has changed dramatically : the proportion of under-fives has dropped by a quarter , and the numbers of those at school leaving age by just under a quarter , giving an overall decline of 15 per cent in the population aged under fifteen . |
| 10 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 11 | Comparing this point in the economic cycle with the same point 10 years ago , during that period manufacturing output has risen by a quarter , manufacturing investment by a third , manufacturing productivity by a half and manufacturing exports by three quarters . |
| 12 | In the past year , unemployment has risen by a massive 47 per cent. , but instead of rising by a similar amount , expenditure in 1991-92 will be 10 per cent . |
| 13 | Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously , investment has actually fallen . |
| 14 | Crime has risen by an average of six per cent in England and Wales with the largest rise in rural areas . |
| 15 | In real terms the cost of rail and bus travel has risen by an average of no more than five per cent above the rate of inflation in the last five years . |
| 16 | This may be analogous to the question why a newly independent State is deemed bound by a treaty which brought it into existence . |
| 17 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 18 | — a substantial reduction — and the number waiting longer than one year has reduced by a quarter . |
| 19 | In the last year , the construction level in the province has crumbled by a massive 18.5pc . |
| 20 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 21 | According to Kovda ( 1983 ) soil erosion has increased by a factor of five since the beginning of settled agriculture and has resulted in the destruction of c. 4.3 × 10 ha of productive land . |
| 22 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 23 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that under this Government manufacturing output has increased by a quarter whereas it fell under the last Labour Government ? |
| 25 | Since the Gulf war , the United States and Britain have used the United Nations to bleed Iraq ; and the sufferers have been primarily children , whose death-rate has increased by an estimated 400 per cent . |
| 26 | National health service capital spending has increased by an average of 4.3 per cent . |
| 27 | The numbers playing in Ulster has increased by an estimated 40 per cent in the last decade or so . |
| 28 | The door to the platform opened and Fru Blicher entered followed by a much younger , unusually beautiful young woman and a man at least fifteen years her senior carrying a sheaf of music . |
| 29 | The visit starts with a demonstration and talk on woodcarving followed by a demonstration and talk on the work of a potter . |
| 30 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |