Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hares that can not avoid areas with huge fields under monoculture compensate by establishing very large home ranges . |
| 2 | Volume was measured separately for each outstanding futures contract by the number of contracts traded during the day . |
| 3 | It may be noted that some modern authorities denote by MA and MP the two main branches of the posterior media , while Cu1 and Cu2 are sometimes known as CuA and CuP respectively . |
| 4 | I shall therefore look more closely at their teachings , partly because of the ecumenical value of an awareness of their doctrine , but mainly because we can thereby focus much more clearly upon what religions mean by ‘ God ’ . |
| 5 | Precisely what these differing accounts mean by such phrases as ‘ Son of Man ’ , or even ‘ Son of God ’ , can not be translated into our own modern thought processes without some Discarded Image- style readjustments of sympathy . |
| 6 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Scottish Development Agency , in syndicate with a number of other financial institutions , subscribed part of a total of £5 million new money raise by Stagecoach . |
| 7 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 8 | Let's see if we can make the twenty five minutes fly by , yes ? |
| 9 | What manufacturers mean by ‘ deep ’ is ‘ searching ’ . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , both authors sell by the tractor-load . ’ |
| 11 | As the months drag by you find out who are true friends and who does n't really give a damn . |
| 12 | Greece , Spain and Portugal appear by far the " cheapest " source of industrial labour within Europe ( at some 25 to 50 per cent of the EC12 average ) . |
| 13 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 14 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 15 | Ministers urged not to curb homes benefit BY BOB CERVI |
| 16 | In general , the rigorous derivation of a savings function by this route is likely to be complex , but in Section 8–4 we consider a simple two-period life-cycle model illustrative of this line of argument . |
| 17 | Voluntary organizations benefit by royal sponsorship and by the acquisition of prestigious figures as vice-presidents and supporters . |
| 18 | hunter kill by lion ( hunter topic and patient , lion agent ) |
| 19 | These antibiotics act by a different mechanism from — and thus complement — the existing drugs . |
| 20 | Both parties benefit by this arrangement . |
| 21 | Against the US mainstream culture of rose-tinted kitsch ( which Milan Kundera defines as ‘ the refusal to accept that shit exists ’ ) , bands like Big Black , Flipper and the Buttholes react by devising a near-catastrophic conception of ‘ authenticity ’ . |
| 22 | And many parochial clergy react by resenting and despising the chapter . |
| 23 | The meeting was the highest-level contact between the two countries since the end of the Korean War , but the USA stressed that it did not represent an upgrading of bilateral relations , but was a one-off event designed to impress upon the North Korean government the importance attached to the nuclear safeguards issue by the USA . |
| 24 | When trainees are allowed to begin interviewing on their own under supervision they have already been accepted as CAB trainee advice workers , but in the GLCABS structure where candidates begin by observing the interviewing process they may not yet have formally passed the selection procedure . |
| 25 | The ability to cut down the distance signals travel by reducing the size of the computer is limited by the amount of heat the components generate ; a computer that is too small will get too hot . |
| 26 | Biarritz spreads amply out from its heart , at the Place Clemenceau , but its attractions lie by the sea , above all around the small , domesticated promontory that juts out into the froth and swirl of the Bay of Biscay between the Grande Plage in the centre of the town and the rather humbler Plage de la Cote tea Basques to the south . |
| 27 | We can tell how trajectories look by examining their corresponding sequence . |
| 28 | Guide The Heart of England Way Walkers Guide by The Heart of England Way Steering Committee . |
| 29 | Distant cars pass by about once in three minutes . |
| 30 | On the day of the launch of The Campaign For Unbleached Paper , the Association of Sanitary Protection Manufacturers sent their own press release in response to the World in Action expose by courier bike — to all the women 's magazines and papers . |