Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover . |
| 2 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 3 | Railways somehow symbolized the fact that Americans never did anything by halves , and this was more than borne out by the architecture of American railway stations . |
| 4 | Hood : a generous hood which unfortunately bunched up when pulled in by the drawcord . |
| 5 | A collegial model looked both more scriptural and more ecumenical — as well as being more suited to a post-monarchical world — even if bolstered up by a not-too-sound and rather fundamentalist interpretation of a selection of New Testament and patristic texts . |