Example sentences of "and by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thus the whole status of local education authorities is being eroded both by centralization — to the Secretary of State — and by decentralization to individual schools and colleges .
2 As is equal to D 1 , and by rearrangement , .
3 Their mean age was 12.5 years and M:F ratio=1.6:1.0 H pylori infection was diagnosed by histology in 40/41 , by a positive urease test in 23/25 and by culture in 19/27 .
4 The presence of absence of H pylori in the duodenal mucosa was also assessed using cresyl violet stain , and by culture of single duodenal biopsy specimens .
5 Before treatment , H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa was detected by urease test in all patients , histologically in 82 , microscopically after methylene blue staining in 74 , and by culture in 67 patients .
6 However , in the future such rapid widespread dissemination of promising innovations will need to be accompanied by enhanced efforts to monitor intended behavioural outcomes and by testing of school projects in real life settings .
7 And by untaught instinct they know that that means food .
8 Generally , guitars are ( and should be ) judged by touch and by listening .
9 Furthermore , VFA absorption is associated with enhanced colinic Na + absorption and can be partly inhibited by amiloride and by luminal Na + removal A third possible mechanism for VFA absorption is via a VFA-HCO 3 - exchange mechanism , recently demonstrated on apical membrane vesicles from human ileum and rat colon .
10 The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants .
11 The corporate Technology Centre at Sonning Common in the United Kingdom is complemented by a pharmaceutical research group in the USA and by development groups and technical centres within each division .
12 McElroy argues that as an ice sheet advance begins ( for reasons unconnected with the carbon dioxide ‘ budget ’ ) there is increased erosion both by the glaciers and by water running on the continents into the falling seas .
13 Death by fire , by rope , by steel and by water ?
14 By day light flooded the room and by night darkness , because no one had ever worked out a satisfactory way of curtaining these great expanses .
15 Its aircraft and cruise missiles have pounded installations throughout Iraq and Kuwait by day and by night .
16 It is covered in ivy by day and by night in mystery and when I lie in bed I see men and women through it passing by .
17 Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night .
18 It can offer you just about everything you can think of by day and by night , in abundance .
19 We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness .
20 With a water-clock inside the tower and sundials outside , visitors could observe the time both by day and by night and also when the sky was cloudy as well as when it was clear .
21 As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets .
22 And as we grow older and the villages and tents and armies of this world fade , we will see with Hamza , the white cities beyond the senses shine more brightly by day and by night .
23 TO BECOME A PERFORMER , Sandra moved to LA in 1975 , working as a manicurist in the day to pay the rent , and by night performing in the comedy clubs .
24 The public rooms are graceful , fresh and elegant and by night a pianist adds to the relaxed atmosphere .
25 I wrote work instead of word ; the analyst would deduce from this , that I am lazy , and admittedly he would be right — I have dreamt of many things both by day and by night .
26 I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me .
27 You 'll learn the skills and techniques needed safely to skipper a yacht on coastal and offshore passages by day and by night in UK waters .
28 In the morning , Belle had a temperature and by night , she was coughing without stopping .
29 Give me but one day , and by night he shall be waiting for you at our house . ’
30 We agreed , and by night fled the Caliph 's armies and crossed the sea to Cyprus . ’
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