Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that it will be mostly hidden by the curtain that will fall around it , and that it may also have to support a wire umbrella frame , a 3 inch ( 7.5cm ) diameter or square stake is not too big . |
| 2 | The invasion , additionally justified by the US as necessary to defend the Panama Canal , was showing signs of turning into an occupation — and , what was more , an occupation facing potential guerrilla resistance . |
| 3 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 4 | Both of the men were quite badly shaken by the incident and understandably do n't want their names to be released . ’ |
| 5 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
| 6 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
| 7 | The irony is only compounded by the fact that in retrospect those trade figures turned out to be misleading and only a statistical ‘ blip ’ . |
| 8 | He has told April that I am insanely in love with him , and now they both hate me : he , because I have made it plain this is not the case , and she for much the same reason , only compounded by the fact that since he has raised the subject , and in view of his demeanour towards me … |
| 9 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 10 | As she made for the doors she was suddenly halted by the realization that she had no money with her . |
| 11 | The range of chest exercises is really only limited by the equipment that is available . |
| 12 | The result is almost despotic power for the central government and this is as much resented by the colonials as by the natives themselves . ’ |
| 13 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 14 | In contrast to some other material , my essay ‘ The Claims of Basic English ’ , to which I had referred in my letter of 18 July 1944 , had reached him ; and I was much cheered by the fact that he expressed unqualified approval for it . |
| 15 | Given the mobility constraints , is the cooperation of labour not better explained by the fact that employees have little alternative ? |
| 16 | These texts have been warmly received by the Commission and the work of the Group Consultatif has enhanced the reputation of actuaries in the Community . |
| 17 | Nor is this feeling only provoked by the sight or the thought of art , he wrote . |
| 18 | My master deepened my unease with a story about the stark , square building 's previous owners , the Templars ; the monks of war who , two centuries previously , had been brutally crushed by the papacy and the French crown because of their alleged involvement in witchcraft , dabbling in the Black Arts as well as such unnatural vices as sodomy and the worship of a huge black cat . |
| 19 | Domestically inclined spirits , they are happiest when warmly ensconced by the grate or hob over a kitchen fire , and are more at home in the country than in a city or town . |
| 20 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 21 | One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing . |
| 22 | At first the victim was so devastated by the attack that she did n't report it to the police . |
| 23 | The girls both stare at him , obviously impressed by the scale and force of his concern . |
| 24 | It 's not uncommon for victims of rape to be so traumatized by the attack that they delay , or in some cases never report the matter to police . |
| 25 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 26 | In fact he was so unnerved by the pitch that after an exploratory foray up the finishing wall and the placement of one runner , he returned and refused to lead further . |
| 27 | You will have received a copy of my handwritten ‘ Functional Specification ’ in which I have tried to take account of all the comments made during our session in Paris but have been somewhat hampered by the fact that I , too along with David and Geoff , have not been able to make the latest set of disks run . |
| 28 | She was so weakened by the treatment that her parents had to teach her to walk and talk again . |
| 29 | The step from ‘ asking the wrong question ’ to the error being regarded as jurisdictional is only made by the assumption that any matter which is in any sense a ‘ condition ’ to the exercise of jurisdiction becomes jurisdictional . |
| 30 | But he was so moved by the film that he launched a campaign to raise the money at the place where he worked . |