Example sentences of "by [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas urban SO&sub2 ; concentrations fell fivefold from 1968 to 1988 , rural concentrations fell by only half . |
| 2 | The next most common change , an improvement in staff communication , is claimed by only half of the teachers . |
| 3 | The defenders ' and challengers ' Cup trials , for example , have been covered by only ESPN , the sport cable channel , in the United States . |
| 4 | This was done by only sampling at fixed distances between points . |
| 5 | David the chief economist of Nat West Bank expects output to rise by only point six percent this year . |
| 6 | England could now reach the US finals by only drawing against the Dutch in Rotterdam next October . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone wrote off Norwich a few weeks ago , but they beat Sheffield United in midweek while we lost , and Villa slipped up by only drawing with Tottenham . |
| 8 | By only charging for the meals and services you actually use , we are able to offer very low terms indeed for high class , 3 crown accommodation . |
| 9 | [ In the second type there is ] … a natural increase which is offset by outwards migration so that the overall result is one of population decline … . |
| 10 | The cession of this province to the Kingdom of Italy would help to complete the work of unification begun in 1859 and by so doing would ease Napoleon III 's conscience about an unfulfilled pledge . |
| 11 | The pantomime analogy draws the reader and characters together into a collective fictional position within an audience , and by so doing counteracts the opposite isolating direction of the forces of war , bureaucracy and totalitarianism . |
| 12 | Indeed , there is much to be lost by so doing because it hinders the conceptualising and hence the realisation of law 's distinctive contribution to peace . |
| 13 | The second reason for linking the British currency to the Deutschmark was the argument that by so doing Britain would benefit from being inextricably tied to ‘ sound ’ German financial policies , especially those aimed at controlling inflation . |
| 14 | The three SNP MPs who voted with the Government this week , and by so doing exerted pressure for increased Scottish representation on the proposed European committee of the regions , acted correctly and in accord with that principle . |
| 15 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 16 | But what I 'm saying is that the er m Q Basic must have the facilities to put those menus up by just sort of saying put up menu . |
| 17 | I thought , like , I mean , is n't the basic idea of psychoanalysis is that , you know that , that these people are repressing something and that 's studying , and the question is how well , can you arrive at what they were repressing , by just sort of secondhand , you know , I mean |
| 18 | However , the manner in which these services were administered by largely non-camp refugees of higher social status and supervised by an international cadre had already created a profoundly damaging sense of dependency . |
| 19 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 20 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |
| 21 | By yesterday evening the largest lender , the Halifax , which held out a glimmer of hope earlier in the day that it could stick with its 13.5 per cent rate , acknowleged a rise was inevitable . |
| 22 | The bridge was supposed to have been moved and the motorway re-opened by yesterday morning . |
| 23 | Nitrates can have harmful effects , but are usually kept in check by fortnightly water changes to dilute them . |
| 24 | Soiled bedding is removed and fresh material is collected , by both boar and sow . |
| 25 | The world of the European courts was linked by both marriage and kinship ties . |
| 26 | Intestinal adaptation to PSBR is controlled by both luminal and humoral factors , but since the pancreas lies outside the alimentary tract , only systemic factors seem likely to mediate its adaptive response . |
| 27 | When a trio of dots are in GP by both size and interval , the group is most stable when the largest is on the shortest arms and the smallest is on the longer arms . |
| 28 | It is one of the longest galleries and is approached by both ramp and steps . |
| 29 | Singapore is a famously good place to shop and eat , and recent shifts of attitude by both government and tourism chiefs have made it more interesting and attractive . |
| 30 | Any scientist coming up with a set of laboratory in vitro tests that accurately predicts the behaviour of a material inside a patient 's mouth would be dearly loved by both government and industry . |