Example sentences of "as [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As explained by a senior officer in the neighbourhood unit for the whole of B Division , which includes dangerous areas in West and North Belfast , ‘ men risk their lives for community policing ’ in this area . |
| 2 | Most ancient and medieval writers thought of human life not as a continuous development but instead as punctuated by a number of sudden changes from one ‘ age ’ to the next . |
| 3 | Suicide or self-injury , wilful self-exposure to peril ( except in an attempt to save human life ) , the influence of drugs ( except as prescribed by a registered medical practitioner other than for treatment of drug addiction ) or alcohol , or the person insured engaging in , during the period of holiday or journey , wintersports , mountaineering , racing ( other than on foot ) or other hazardous adventure . |
| 4 | The 1976 Order ( as amended by a further order in 1978 ) applies to any exemption clause claiming in a consumer deal to exclude liability under sections 13-J5 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 5 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 6 | The NME established itself quickly , even if the musical world it reflected was to remain dominated by Geraldo , Humphrey Lyttleton , Johnny Dankworth , differing varieties of big band jazz , and the showbiz gossip direct from ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ ( Denmark St ) , where the paper had its offices ) as reported by a variety of wackily pseudonymous hacks such as ‘ The Slider ’ and ‘ The Alleycat ’ . |
| 7 | This is the difference between seeing growth as depicted by a statistical average on an ascending curve , or as a trend line indicating upwards motion and growth but which includes decline and ascent combined . |
| 8 | The Oxford Pest Control surveyors , as depicted by a non-Rentokil person ! |
| 9 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 10 | According to Tim , this has resulted in a return to an élitist society in which ‘ The population has learnt to live on abstractions and interpretations of the world as presented by a few ’ ( 92 ) . |
| 11 | But you often hear the expression , tack iss stock ope , tachistoscope as presented by a tachistoscope , right , there you go . |
| 12 | Right , the same flower as seen by a bee , photographed in ultraviolet light . |
| 13 | Von Uexkull illustrated this definition by his unforgettable pictures of the living-room as seen by fly , dog , or man , and of the fish and the boat as seen by a sea-urchin . |
| 14 | Now consider the shares as seen by a potential bidder for the whole trust ; most likely this would itself be a financial institution . |
| 15 | The café-cum-shop up on the ravishing Col du Soul or in particular has been a wondrous mess on my two ascents there : very dark , immensely cluttered , low ceilinged and lit as much as warmed by a large log fire . |
| 16 | But the greatest problem , as revealed by a recent report from a bipartisan commission , is on the nation 's farms . |
| 17 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , the parents of convicted children will leave themselves liable to meeting an unlimited fine , as levied by a Crown court , if their children can not themselves pay ? |
| 18 | In addition , Shattil and Cooper ( 1976 ) described increased platelet membrane microviscosity following incubation of platelets with ‘ cholesterol-rich ’ liposomes and Sinha et al ( 1977 ) found an impaired response of the membrane-associated enzyme adenylate cyclase to the stimulating effect of various agents including prostaglandin E 1 as shown by a decrease in production of cyclic AMP . |
| 19 | However you work in selecting a remedy find the way that suits you and gives you results as shown by a good response to its administration . |
| 20 | It should be said that , even at that time , the panel had been subjected to a mild cleaning operation , as shown by a still earlier photograph taken when the work was in pristine condition . |
| 21 | Figure 2.7 shows the typical patterning of sleep through the night , as shown by a healthy adult . |
| 22 | When this shortened cDNA was transfected into COS 7 cells , we observed high level expression , as shown by a complex comigrating with the N-Oct 3 protein and , surprisingly , an additional double band complex comigrating with the two N-Oct 5 complexes of the brain extract ( Figure 3a , lane 6 ) . |
| 23 | Ablation of capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones , as verified by a 90% depletion of their marker calcitonin gene related peptide from the gastric wall , resulted in a significant aggravation of ethanol injury . |
| 24 | ‘ By the end of the pre-kindergarten experience 90 per cent of all children will demonstrate their recognition of at least three of the five basic emotions : fear , anger , sadness , joy and love ( in self and others ) as measured by a future Michigan Education Assessment Program ( MEAP ) battery of tests . |
| 25 | This comes from the study by Goldthorpe , Llewellyn and Payne ( 1980 , pp. 152–6 ) on patterns of social mobility for men , as measured by a comparison of the occupational status of different generations of the same family . |
| 26 | The average tar yield of British cigarettes ( as measured by a standard machine method by the Government Chemist ) has declined from about 30mg per cigarette in the period 1955–61 to 13.6mg today . |
| 27 | Cohen had found that materials at similar readability levels as measured by a formula produced very different cloze test scores : 30 per cent for literature , 37 per cent for science , and 40 per cent for social studies . |
| 28 | Here , male network patterns prove to be more close-knit ( as measured by a network strength score : NSS ) than female networks , whereas this contrast is not so marked in the Hammer and is cancelled and partly reversed in the Clonard ( one of the highest-scoring groups for NSS in West Belfast is the young female group in the Clonard , and this largely accounts for the Clonard score in Table 4.1 ) . |
| 29 | Instead , they would each have their own individual time , as measured by a clock each carried with him . |
| 30 | Peter Slater , of Sussex University , used a sonograph to compare exactly a recording of the new song as sung by a wild song thrush with the sound of a trimphone ( Animal Behaviour , vol 31 , p 308 ) . |