Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells .
2 Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth .
3 In Japan , as in Germany , love of consensus and the absence of a revolving door leave little room for unorthodox views peddled by independent institutes .
4 The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December .
5 During that same period , food export prices fell by eleven percent alright , whereas manufactured export , prices of manufactured exports rose by twenty percent .
6 Ten control rats excreted ( mean ( SE ) 188.2 ( 13.6 ) µg of PABA ; 10 rats with an intestinal stagnant loop excreted more ( 530.1 ( 30.1 ) µg ; p<0.001 ) : whereas 10 rats in each of three groups pretreated by oral administration of various antibiotics excreted less ( polymix B+ tinidazole , 4.9 ( 1.6 ) µg ; kanamycin , 31.0 ( 4.7 ) µg ; clindamycin 40.9 ( 5.5 ) µg ; p<0.001 ) .
7 The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre .
8 A liberal spraying of Waxoyl diluted by white spirit is then easily taken into the metal where it continues to preserve from within .
9 Thieves who broke into a Nissan Bluebird owned by 68-year-old widow Doreen Reilly and her son Michael found £29,000 under the car 's front seat .
10 The trouble began after spectators carrying flags of the opposition Mohajir National Movement gathered near a high steel fence outside the general enclosure and shouted slogans expressing their opposition to a visit to Pakistan planned by Indian film stars .
11 A fair point , maybe , but one that smacks of the kind of social-comment spuriousness spouted by many fashion editors who ought to know better .
12 However , holiday expenditure rose by twenty four percent and spending on overseas trips rose by fifty percent .
13 The Australian Democrats increased their vote by some 2 percentage points to around 5.5 per cent without winning a seat , while the vote for the independent candidates rose by 0.7 points to almost 11 per cent .
14 He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased .
15 What I 'm trying to say is , when you 're in the state of consciousness triggered by sexual stimulation , you should be able to breach time and space .
16 I stress we are not anti-Europe and nor was this meant to be a mischievous motion , but we are very distrustful about any deal negotiated by any member of this government .
17 He received his award last night from Bill Cotton , president of the RTS , at a dinner at the London Hilton hosted by fellow BBC journalist Moira Stuart .
18 She had a white puffy panicky face and prominent eyes accentuated by pink eyeshadow .
19 It 's a forty foot long boat paddled by twenty people driven on by a drummer and steered by an oarsman
20 ( a ) the familiar side imaged from the Earth , ( b ) the far side imaged by Lunar Orbiter 4 with Mare Orientale at the centre .
21 Yet this is exactly the behavioural propensity of the id uncovered by clinical psychoanalysis .
22 The king marched north to besiege Berwick , and by the end of June 1333 the defenders , exhausted by the English assaults , agreed to surrender if no relieving force arrived by 11 July .
23 While the humane and personal edge to his songwriting now connected thousands , he faced the danger of creating an unlikeable monster blindfolded by defensive arrogance .
24 Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago .
25 Clashes with the army escalated rapidly ; curfew orders were defied as stone throwers confronted army vehicles and pelted low flying helicopters with rocks ; parts of Gaza blackened by burning protest tyres , were out of control .
26 In order to analyse the possibility that the effect of the mutations on CytR regulation was an indirect effect mediated by changed binding of cAMP-CRP , gel retardation experiments with 32 P-endlabelled DNA fragments containing both CRP sites in the context of the different mutations were also performed ( Fig. 3. lower panels ) .
27 Although Serbian officials dismissed the incident as an outbreak of mass hysteria , Albanians described it as a mass poisoning perpetrated by Serbian nationalists , and anti-Serbian and anti-Montenegrin demonstrations quickly broke out across the province .
28 Warfare , preparations or war , and negotiations for ‘ peace ’ by the élites of opposing stratified social formations often distract attention from , and may be meant to distract attention from , the permanently installed violence perpetrated by dominant strata against subordinate strata within each formation ( see Chomsky 1987 : 105–6 ) .
29 This has been confirmed by direct measurement of ascitic plasminogen activating activity and has led to speculation that an infusion of plasminogen activators could stimulate a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis .
30 These studies show that the plasminogen activating activity of ascites is primarily mediated by tissue plasminogen activator and that it is also probably responsible for a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis after insertion of a peritoneovenous shunt .
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