Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abortion is a political act , and as a simple act of Parliament has brought about the slaughter , so only by a political action can the law be changed to stop it . ’ |
| 2 | In any event , they are being taken sufficiently seriously by a large number of people to raise strong doubts in the minds of many about the viability of our present system . |
| 3 | Thereafter the Beco Chapel closed and was used only occasionally by an unlicensed chaplain until its final closure in 1893 — when six pieces of gilded silver plate were returned to the English Church . |
| 4 | Your expertise will be rewarded not only by a competitive salary , but also by an extensive range of benefits including 5 weeks ' holiday , pension and profit share schemes , a subsidised restaurant and first-class sports and social facilities . |
| 5 | Trusts arise not only by a direct expression of intention but also by an inference or implication which may or may not correspond to any actual intention . |
| 6 | Acceptance can be signified not only by a written document , but also by conduct . |
| 7 | Towards the end of the 1980s there was a growing awareness that children could be sexually abused not only by an individual acting on his or her own , but also by adults acting in concert . |
| 8 | The reforms of the nineteenth century were facilitated not only by an empirical orientation to change but also by the paternalism of political leaders . |
| 9 | Our pulses were quickened soon enough by a seductive menu and a wine list laid out according to grape and price by someone who has sipped well from major world producers and made some rare finds on the way . |
| 10 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 11 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 12 | The body of Kevin McEvoy was discovered at 7.15am yesterday by a 14-year-old girl on the first day of her new job as a papergirl . |
| 13 | Fairbrother became the first batsman in this country to be given not out by a third umpire after TV replays of a close run-out incident had been studied . |
| 14 | Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union . |
| 15 | Lord Hesketh , the chief whip in the Lords , also went for flower power in the form of a pink carnation set off nicely by a red bow tie and cream shirt . |
| 16 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 17 | If you pruned them back by one-third of their height before moving them into their winter quarters , then they may be cut back once more by an equal amount . |
| 18 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 19 | In An 685 King Ecgfrith decided to expand his realm still further by a large-scale attack on the Pictish lands . |
| 20 | The mountain , in the Pakistan Karakoram , is sometimes known as Masherbrum Far West , and appears to have been climbed only once before by an Italian team . |
| 21 | The government 's budget was strengthened by increased customs revenue and more particularly by a spectacular rise in indirect taxation . |
| 22 | The method is for , say , a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job . |
| 23 | Lambeth — whose leader , Joan Twelves , resigned this week — has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence . |
| 24 | Through these roles the teacher intervenes in the child 's learning , most often by a careful structuring of the contexts for writing . |
| 25 | A direct reading from graphical or tabular data is usually carried out successfully by a high proportion of low attainers . |
| 26 | However , the reason why may lie in the fact that a cricket bat , tennis racket and snooker cue can be used just as adeptly by a left-handed person as a right-hander . |
| 27 | In 1818 , the outraged county magnates forced his withdrawal but he was swept back in by a temporary swing in support from the freehold voters . |
| 28 | If that is the only problem faced by certain investment projects then it can be solved fairly easily by an interventionist government willing to regulate international capital flows in order to adjust the external value of the currency ( it is upward adjustment of the exchange rate which may be very difficult ) . |
| 29 | He telephoned a Sunday request to London for a Monday Cabinet , sent the proposals back overnight by a Foreign Office official , and left for Switzerland . |
| 30 | Surveillance may be carried out adequately by a skilled practitioner in 10 to 14 minutes once or twice a year , but , to have any impact , discussions about management and lifestyle to reduce the risk of complications will take longer . |