Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] by [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 2 | The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour . |
| 3 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 4 | ‘ We are the failed spells , ma'am , we must live here in secret , guarded by the Cruithin and also by the Castle 's own strange protections . |
| 5 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 6 | It has already been noted that the movements in Ashton 's five abstract ballets have been coloured by the music , its period and sometimes by the composer 's own thoughts ( see page 42 ) . |
| 7 | Miss Fergusson , on the other hand , had merely been put into a temper : first by the attempt to thrust some foolish meaning on to the scriptural verse ; and secondly by the priest 's brazen commercial behaviour . |
| 8 | Mackintosh 's suggestion was that the value of α ( i.e. the associability of the CS ) might be determined not only by the intrinsic qualities of the stimulus ( such as its intensity ) but also by the animal 's past experience with the stimulus . |
| 9 | In continuing to speak of healthy relationships between children and parents , Searles emphasised the resolution of the Oedipal strivings , not just by the child 's identification with the parents of the same sex , not just by the final taboo and containment of the feelings , but also by the parent 's renunciation of the reciprocated romantic feelings with a real sense of loss , and also by the love between the parents to which the child owed his existence . |
| 10 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 11 | Choice of television viewing was even more limited partly by the similarity between BBC-TV and ITV , but also by the electorate 's tendency to watch both BBC-TV and ITV . |
| 12 | Contrary to popular belief it is triggered , not by heat , but purely by the sun 's UVA rays . |
| 13 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |