Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 2 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 3 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 4 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 5 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 6 | I have seen beheading done too early and too suddenly — with the result that the still not perfectly united bud is literally pushed out by the sudden flood having nowhere else to go . |
| 7 | I think was er er erm Mr Thomas , and I think perhaps hinted on by the Senior Inspector as well , er what is , what is Greater York ? to do with Sylvia , erm |
| 8 | There were fewer beggars under the arcades , perhaps scared away by the patrolling police , and by the awe-inspiring Civil Guards in their black-lacquered headgear and solemnly swinging capes . |
| 9 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 11 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 12 | Yet last autumn Christie 's sold another ‘ canal houses ’ garniture , perhaps popped in by the Vietnamese just to test the water , for a mere Dfl28,000 ( £8,484 ) . |
| 13 | The decision was apparently taken unilaterally by the Nigerian authorities , and appeared to reflect on Quainoo 's handling of the command , particularly the incident which led to the killing of Doe . |
| 14 | Anyone whose experience of Liszt does n't extend much beyond the odd Hungarian Rhapsody , paraphrase , Liebesträum , and les Prèludes will , I imagine , be somewhat taken aback by the relative harmonic conservatism , and unadorned purity of style . |
| 15 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 16 | The idea that information should be hidden from or denied to parents , as apparently advocated today by the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) and the Labour party , is amazing . |
| 17 | However , it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management . |
| 18 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 19 | This is being used to investigate the incidence of taxation and benefits at the level of individual households , building on the work already carried out by the Central Statistical Office . |
| 20 | When an insect moults , the dorsal arms of the tentorium are largely dissolved away by the moulting fluid , the tentorium splits medially , much of the central body is dissolved and the remainder is pulled out as four separate pieces , one from each tentorial pit ( Sharplin , 1965 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Very serious grounds are needed to infringe anonymity , and it is generally accepted even by the Swedish judiciary that the public 's right to be informed takes precedence over law and order considerations , ’ said Ms Frances D'Souza , director of Article 19 , the International Campaign against Censorship . |
| 22 | Although the argument has been used that the proposed primary school will increase traffic , it will not do so by the same volume . |
| 23 | So Deborah went with Farmer Plant and was washed and generally cleaned up by the motherly farmwife . |
| 24 | While economic statistics are more up-to-date and therefore more relevant , they are not used regularly by the three departments because they are not specific enough . |
| 25 | Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her . |
| 26 | Others are not employed directly by the ruling class and work in the liberal arts and service professions . |
| 27 | Fortunately , the house is strongly built , and is not damaged even by the worst winter storms . |
| 28 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 29 | The larger pieces show a surprising link with her drawing which is not borne out by the smaller more elaborate pieces cast in bronze . |
| 30 | Staff tried to put the fire out themselves , but were soon driven back by the intense heat and thick smoke given off from burning tyres . |