Example sentences of "by a [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The hall was built in 1539 , and its facade is a marvel of elaborate murals topped by a richly carved half-timbered gallery . |
2 | This small natural-looking pool is framed by a richly varied planting including variegated grasses and irises , hostas and primulas . |
3 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |
4 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
5 | Yet it emphasizes the close personal bonds which had existed between the dukes of Aquitaine and their vassals : the Pommiers were an ancient family , members of the ducal household , and it was to this kind of traditional relationship that appeal could be made by a largely absentee king-duke at periods of crisis . |
6 | Those responsible for contributory benefits are concerned with the paying out of amounts determined by a largely computerized central system . |
7 | The old Home Office Inspectorate disappeared in 1971 when the new social service departments came into being and was replaced by a largely advisory Social Work Service . |
8 | What this summary reveals primarily is the volume and range of work undertaken by a largely elected body of staff and students ( it disguises a further aspect of their role as participants in FRG-led review events ) . |
9 | However , it is very likely that capture of gases from the PFM by a largely formed planet can be ruled out as a major source . |
10 | The Byzantine Empire , with its capital at Byzantium ( Istanbul ) , was strongly influenced by a number of contrasting elements : Christianity , which was the official religion ; the Oriental factor from further east and the Hellenic force provided by a largely Greek population in the capital and surrounding area who , due to their heredity and training , provided the best craftsmen in building and decoration . |
11 | The review is designed to identify matters which might give rise to queries following a review by a reasonably informed , but uninvolved , reader . |
12 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
13 | It had to succeed in selling , against Japanese competition , the product left to it by a conventionally organised British motor cycle industry which had already admitted defeat ; and sales were not keeping pace with production . |
14 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
15 | Putting Lipsey and Popper together , we get a neat diagram of how to proceed , backed by a hugely influential rationale for it . |
16 | By a curiously symmetrical piece of political manoeuvring , the KDPI , in revolt against Tehran , was succoured by Baghdad , while the KDP , in revolt against Baghdad , was succoured by Tehran . |
17 | The rows may be triggered by a seemingly trivial incident , but it is not felt as trivial when it symbolizes past conflicts and needs . |
18 | The massive amount of blood that had been dripped into his veins brought its legacy of jaundice , followed by a seemingly endless skin irritation , something akin to prickly heat . |
19 | As to my choice of hardware , I cheated a bit : for my Koi pond already contained an admirable in-pool Oase filter , powered by a seemingly indestructible stainless steel-bodied pump by the same manufacturer . |
20 | It was an interview broadcast by a privately owned company , said to be not unfriendly to the Conservatives . |
21 | The result is a permanent war establishment run by a privately incorporated economy operating within a political vacuum . |
22 | Again , such agencies operate to allow and encourage negotiation between key groups ( including developers and , in some cases , local industry ) and the state in such a way that the obstacles created by a locally elected body can be bypassed . |
23 | There are pressures to Be Someone , and Q , the DJ ( Epps ) , sees his break at a mixing contest overseen by a decidedly sassy Queen Latifah . |
24 | preference shares held by a nominally independent foundation |
25 | These should be carried out and applied by a properly trained multidisciplinary team . |
26 | This has not yet been measured by a properly controlled experiment . |
27 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
28 | The delicatessen was owned by a most enterprising Indian who opened at all the times when other places were shut . |
29 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
30 | His funeral , according to Calamy , ‘ was attended by a most numerous company of all ranks and qualities , and especially of ministers , some of whom were Conformists , who thought fit to pay him that last office of respect . ’ |