Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent figures suggest that by 1987 Albanians amounted to as much as 85 per cent of the population of Kosovo . |
| 2 | These facts , coupled with population growth , suggest that by the year 2000 most of the remaining forests will have disappeared and been replaced with subsistence farming with a little surplus income derived from cash crops . |
| 3 | The territorial readjustments of 1475 suggest that by then the queen 's interest in East Anglia was regarded as the main instrument of royal authority there . |
| 4 | Projections by the Government Actuary suggest that by 2001 these proportions will have increased to 47.2 per cent and 12.1 per cent respectively ( Falkingham , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The careers of other scholars of the period who reached the highest mevleviyets likewise suggest that by this time teaching on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn had become customary , the top level being composed of the Suleymaniye medreses and the later imperial medreses , such as those of Selim II and Murad III . |
| 6 | The territorial readjustments of 1475 suggest that by then the queen 's interest in East Anglia was regarded as the main instrument of royal authority there . |
| 7 | Well I 'm saying I still do n't know , the figures that I 'm being given suggest that by Friday , erm or by Monday , we 'll have sufficient to meet the orders of . |
| 8 | Our evidence which shows that the first glimmerings of our new paradigm emerged around 1860 and we expect that by 2010 the shift will be virtually complete , although it will take longer for its changes to affect everyone . |
| 9 | Other sources say that by the seventeenth century big , stately , black longhorns were being reared in Yorkshire , Derbyshire , Lancashire and Staffordshire and that by the eighteenth century there was a large , rangy , big-hoofed plough-ox type which could also give acceptable though ordinary meat and the cows could give reasonable milk well suited for cheese-making . |
| 10 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 11 | She says this is an insult to my daughter and to myself they say that by implication we are lying |
| 12 | They admit it 's expensive , but say that by sharing the aircraft between them it should provide value for money . |
| 13 | They say that by following basic advice illnesses , such as sore throats and diarrhoea , can be avoided . |
| 14 | Eternity — something like that , you know ? , in some way , it 's a tale that in , the , that embraces those er thoughts that so many people are thinking these days , and yet I 'm an old fashioned fellow , erm and I say that by saying er yes , this , this is some , somewhat of a er new age category , all these things . |
| 15 | The news media can , by the way they report and by the significance they attach to personalities , events and the statements of individuals , colour the attitudes of the public and in turn influence the way in which the constitution is interpreted and the political system works . |
| 16 | As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information . |
| 17 | Rightwingers in his own party , however , fear that by embarking on a dialogue under US auspices , Israel will eventually be pushed , despite its own reservations , into talks with the PLO and advance the creation of an independent Palestinian state . |
| 18 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 19 | These advances in molecular genetics mean that by using a combination of haplotype and mutation analysis prenatal diagnosis is now possible in the great majority of couples who already have a child with phenylketonuria , although this has been undertaken infrequently because paediatricians and parents see early treated children as ‘ healthy . ’ |
| 20 | The new texts mean that by 1993 , Sotheby 's , Christie 's and Philllips will still only be able to prospect , but not sell , in France . |
| 21 | Demographic trends mean that by 1994 the number of 16 to 19 year olds will have dropped by about one quarter . |
| 22 | Present trends mean that by 2003 , a quarter of all the sulphur dioxide emitted into the air of the European Community will be from the UK . |
| 23 | New home office regulations mean that by pooling their resources the new East Midlands Air Support Unit can afford the latest and most powerful model on the market . |
| 24 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 25 | Parry and Parry conclude that by adopting the strategy of professionalism , certain occupational groups are able to extract high rewards from the market . |
| 26 | AMERICA ‘ Latest estimates show that by the year 2010 , the USA will be a Japanese-owned country speaking Spanish . |
| 27 | Counts in Chichester and Pagham Harbours , which are illustrated in Fig. 8 , show that by far the largest numbers of Ringed Plovers are present in Sussex during migration , particularly in the autumn . |
| 28 | Modelling studies show that by rotation of main-chain torsion angles to achieve only allowed Ramachandran values ( Fig. 2 c ) and adjustments of the side-chain torsion angles , the side chains of His15 and Arg17 can be easily brought together to make a closed conformation ( Fig. 2 b ) suitable for accommodating a phosphoryl group ; adjustments of main-chain and side-chain torsion angles were made using the program TURBO-FRODO ( ref. 9 ; Biographics , Marseilles ) . |
| 29 | The earliest known vertebrates ( Arandaspida ) show that by early Ordovician times vertebrate life had already developed complex body armour . |
| 30 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |