Example sentences of "[verb] by [n mass] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United Kingdom , savings are dominated by people over 50 years of age . |
| 2 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 3 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 4 | As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time . |
| 5 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 6 | Most of the actual work was done by staff rather than the high powered task force members . |
| 7 | ( Linking with geography , to give just one example , could involve using maps , making plans , studying the functions of different buildings and uses of land , looking at the different jobs done by people today , and perhaps even carrying out a traffic census or statistical survey . ) |
| 8 | On the one hand , the sterility of machine culture and the terrible isolation often felt by people even in overcrowded cities ; on the other hand , a taking for granted of many basic rights and freedoms which in your day have not even been thought |
| 9 | The approach taken here exemplifies what emerged in our discussions during the conference as a major theoretical orientation : a view of human action — peacefulness or violence — as the outcome of choices made by people actively in pursuit of particular purposes and goals , choices made and enacted within particular psychologically and culturally constituted realities which they themselves are actively constructing ( see Buckley , Howell , O'Nell , Overing , Gibson , Howe , Campbell , this volume ) . |
| 10 | These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her . |
| 11 | They can be used by people too shy to ask questions of the library staff . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've already been contacted by people as far away from the airport as Holywood and Cultra , as well as many businesses , worried about this possibility , ’ said the City Council Ulster Unionist deputy leader . |
| 13 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 14 | Liddesdale was still a sullen , untamed region populated by people as prickly and hostile as they had always been . |
| 15 | FLINT Castle would have a permanently manned visitors ' centre under improved marketing plans for historic Welsh monuments demanded by MPs yesterday . |
| 16 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 17 | Then there is the pain , like another form of death , of seeing your world chronicled by people too young to have lived in it , with the inevitable distortions this must entail . |
| 18 | Second , you can not storm barricades that are manned by people so polite they even congratulate Brian Redhead on his ‘ magnificent handling of this debate ’ ( particularly as Brian hardly said anything ) . |
| 19 | Questions are also being asked by people closely linked with the appeal committee itself . |
| 20 | Questions are also being asked by people closely linked with the appeal committee itself . |
| 21 | He launched himself , after Mayor Washington 's death , on a reformist clean-government ticket and is supported by people sternly opposed to the old-style goings-on . |
| 22 | It has been supported by people as diverse as the 19th-century anarchist Proudhon and the Founding Fathers of the United States . |
| 23 | In fact , one in three new ventures in the USA is started by people under thirty — the majority of whom are graduates in their early twenties . |
| 24 | The problem created by people generally not knowing what services solicitors can provide is well documented . |
| 25 | THE Broadcasting Bill , to be debated by MPs tomorrow , directly affects the future of independent broadcasting . |
| 26 | several streets all very like one another , and many more streets still more like one another , inhabited by people equally like one another , who all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow , and every year the counterpart of the last and the next . |
| 27 | Familiar loud harsh quack , resembling farmyard duck , uttered by duck only ; drake has a softer ‘ queek ’ . |
| 28 | A principal role should be undertaken by staff directly involved with and who are experienced in dealing with , elderly groups . |
| 29 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 30 | Their arrest followed press reports of allegations by unidentified members of the opposition that private armies were being assembled by people close to the government , including the former Minister of Energy and IndustryKiprono Nicholas K. Biwott [ for whose dismissal from office see p. 38563 ] . |