Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its pictures as well as text contributed by a team of experts , it portrays a colourful decade in which hope was more rekindled than lost . |
| 2 | payments of capital do not attract inheritance tax liability , except in so far as income earned by the fund has not been paid out . |
| 3 | One or two odd shapes were found , but most authorities dismissed these as patterns produced by the physical processes of rock formation that had nothing whatever to do with living organisms . |
| 4 | Differential erosion of the rocks has resulted in the hard rocks being left as peaks separated by deeply eroded valleys and ravines . |
| 5 | Electrogenic ion transport was measured directly as SCC recorded by voltage clamping the tissue at zero potential , as described previously . |
| 6 | For these were the real ‘ professionals ’ who , at certain times in the war , took over either as commanders appointed by the crown or as leaders of groups of freelance soldiers who could ignore royal orders and get away with it . |
| 7 | Brussels : Stocks slipped further in moderate early trade as doubts prompted by high interest rates and the strength of the dollar resurfaced . |
| 8 | As labour employed by capital , in principle they needed trade unions and were organised by them , exemplary employer though the Consumers ' Movement generally was . |
| 9 | SHOPS run by Asians became the latest firebomb targets yesterday as violence sparked by religious rioting spread . |
| 10 | Barclays apart , the banking sector was generally firmer as Lloyds rose by 7p , NatWest 1p , and Midland parent HSBC 8p . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll be there in about an hour or so , ’ Guido told her , as Ronni sat by his side stiffly , staring out the window . |
| 12 | Roads nightmare as commuters hit by rail strike |
| 13 | Many different explanations have been put forward , but the similarity of many of the cup-and-ring carvings to such diverse phenomena as lines found by dowsers and the symbols used to describe sacred places in Australia and elsewhere , suggests strongly that they represent aspects of the non-physical reality which ancient people could see . |
| 14 | At an airforce base in Cebu , central Philippines , government troops delayed an assault on 200 rebels as negotiators led by Cardinal Ricardo Vibal tried to resolve the situation . |
| 15 | ‘ There is another way back , ’ he said quietly as Maggie stood by the Land Rover and cast a rather fearful eye up the valley . |
| 16 | The Kandyan judicial system , which included tests by oath and ordeal as well as trials conducted by various grades of headmen , was initially left largely intact . |
| 17 | We can accept the possibility that reception of cultural products is not always as passive as Adorno suggests , that it is often class-differentiated , that consuming subjects are not necessarily unitary conformists so much as sites traversed by conflicting interpretative schemas . |
| 18 | And as Pete emerged by the rocky edge of the water , he saw her . |
| 19 | The dye collects sunlight , as plants do by photosynthesis . |
| 20 | The discrepancy between modern usage and archaic thought would simply have sounded bogus , leading to a deep ‘ disunion of word and meaning ’ ( as Tolkien showed by rewriting a similar passage , see Letters , pp. 225–6 ) . |
| 21 | As harmony made by grouping notes in perfect fourths will inevitably eliminate thirds , the result sounds very different from conventional harmony ; and as dominant-tonic chords can not be formed , and there is no semitonal leading-note effect , the characteristic progressions of diatonicism are quite absent . |
| 22 | Energy transferred to our bodies as heat-by sitting by a fire or by drinking a hot beverage for example-is negligible in comparison . |
| 23 | The programme will recreate the traditional Carol Service train , which the Railway has run for over 20 years as worshippers travel by steam train from Keighley to Oxenhope , singing carols at each of the Railway 's six award-winning stations . |
| 24 | General practitioners work mainly as individuals supported by primary care teams . |
| 25 | The Homeric heroes , the personalities of the early old Testament , individuals of the old empires of Babylon and Egypt have all come down to us as individuals driven by interior forces . |
| 26 | Griffons , chimera and other monsters find their way into the hinterlands of the Inner Kingdoms where they are hunted for sport or captured as war mounts by the High Elves . |
| 27 | Today its share is around one-seventh , as firms limp by ‘ restructuring ’ — ie , cleaning up — the messes they have made . |
| 28 | They must be seen not as social groups constituted by individuals , but as positions constituted by the conflicting interests which are an integral part of a particular mode of production . |
| 29 | Scott does not see strata as consisting of individuals , nor does he see them simply as positions generated by the economic system , but rather as groups of inter-marrying and inter-connected families . |
| 30 | This is useful for both parties as problems experienced by returners can be anticipated and dealt with for the benefit of new course members . |