Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 2 | Since nobody on the summit of the Ben required a ticking off , except perhaps by the fashion police , it was back on to the tourist path for the descent . |
| 3 | I do not know how this can be avoided except perhaps by getting more things settled at the official level , and when they can not be settled there having the issues presented plainly to ministers . |
| 4 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 5 | As far as informal carers are concerned , the evidence that families may be unable to take on extra responsibilities , and the less certain evidence that elderly people may prefer care by professionals , with help and support from the family , rather than entirely by kin , are conveniently ignored . |
| 6 | Edwin Montagu by contrast , although indisputably by birth a member of la grande juiverie , was by inclination almost a professional non-Jew . |
| 7 | In this way , it should be possible to evaluate policy options more carefully than hitherto by identifying the sorts of factors which are likely to intervene between a national-level change and its actual effects ‘ on the ground ’ in different areas . |
| 8 | Grain went from Rumania to Danzig by sea , all the way round Europe , and still cost 30 per cent less than overland by rail . |
| 9 | De Gaulle 's suspicion of political parties was explicitly anti-parliamentarian : ‘ it is from the head of state , placed above parties and elected more widely than just by Parliament that executive power must proceed ’ . |
| 10 | If there was a long line of people number of seven for the seven dwarfs and they were all standing there side by side and they had their hands over there face like so and the altogether , at the same time , in unison they parted the hand to reveal the facial expression that is more of a dramatic experience to people looking than just by standing here . |
| 11 | It should be noted that , unlike the institutions of the banking sector , OFIs lend primarily by the acquisition of assets , rather than directly by loans and advances . |
| 12 | In the main , he said , the process of unit cleaning and mess staff being employed by contractors rather than directly by the MoD , had gone smoothly . |
| 13 | Although that interest has been , in the course of my career , swept aside more than once by the demands of administration and politics , it will , I hope , never be finally submerged and killed . |
| 14 | A decrease in PV has been curiously " rewarded " more than once by an increase in PS . |
| 15 | Strachan embarassed Dicks more than once by nipping in and streaking up the wing . |
| 16 | I was less moved than ever by M. Chaillot 's little lecture on his responsi-bilities to the public purse . |
| 17 | Longer than ever by his — and hers . |
| 18 | The original plan to make the skirt section conical was a victim of this thinking , although totally by accident rather than design … |
| 19 | Ceauşescu was already the heir-apparent and perhaps hoped to improve his chances of taking over sooner rather than later by siding with the pro-Soviet lobby . |
| 20 | The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality . |
| 21 | Work of this kind demonstrated the significance of the Bronze and Iron Ages in reducing the forest cover of the British landscape particularly in upland Britain , where blanket peat growth may have been influenced by deforestation rather than simply by climatic change ( Simmons , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | I have my doubts about the latter vision since archivists , librarians and museum creators deal with materials which are differentiated by the type of activities which created them , rather than simply by the physical form of those artefacts . |
| 23 | There was more difficulty over the high tax charge and ACT relief and the interim dividend stays at 3.25p covered less than twice by almost halved earnings .. |
| 24 | There was more difficulty over the high tax charge and ACT relief and the interim dividend stays at 3.25p covered less than twice by almost halved earnings .. |
| 25 | Arguably the most popular of all these foreign performers was found by Branson himself , albeit quite by chance . |
| 26 | Although almost by chance , the Vietnam war had claimed another Head of State ( its first victim being Ngo Dinh Diem ) . |
| 27 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 28 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 29 | The Levi who emerged from a regime of cruelty and humiliation with his judgement intact , his mind not closed , neither vengeful nor forgetful , and who wrote a noble and rational book about what had happened to him , is mentioned only cursorily and as if concessively by Fernanda Eberstadt . |
| 30 | However , entering the high wooden gates of Fiveways Cottage in early August , you are overwhelmed by a mass of colour , provided mostly by perennials . |