Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 2 | And they are treated harshly by the form of the electoral system . |
| 3 | Periodicals ( or serials as they are sometimes known ) are listed alphabetically by the title as it appears on the title page of the periodical . |
| 4 | Exploitation of AI techniques has been limited primarily by the scarcity of AI skills among RAF personnel . |
| 5 | This has been refuted both by the success rate of absent healing and trials on non-suggestible organisms such as the sick cress seeds healed by Boltwood in recent experiments at London University . |
| 6 | The scene had been altered only by the season . |
| 7 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 8 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 9 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 10 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 11 | IIb produces only luxury goods which are consumed solely by the capitalists . |
| 12 | We never had had them , and we 've been criticized recently by the Inspector , because of that . |
| 13 | Her entrance had clearly been arranged beforehand by the Headmistress . |
| 14 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 15 | Here the paintings of Futurists such as Boccioni 's ‘ Riot ’ in the gallery and Russolo 's ‘ Revolt ’ are recalled both by the subject and the organisation of forms which implies a melée but which is itself carefully constructed . |
| 16 | All physical phenomena consisting of particles or energy are formed ultimately by the vibrating , ever changing activity of universal energy or consciousness . |
| 17 | Lord 's silence over Lamb has been broken only by the swish , frantic swish of sweeping every inconvenient fact under the Long Room carpet , now piled so high that Chris Bonnington might not scale it ! |
| 18 | He carried a stick to aid his ailing right leg which had been broken deliberately by the STB while he was in prison . |
| 19 | The artwork and mission tallies had been stripped away by the end of September . |
| 20 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 21 | These promoters give rise to unstable open complexes that are sensitive to a short heparin challenge , and are stabilized either by the addition of the first two initiating NTPs ( leading to the formation of an initiated complex ) , or by DNA supercoiling ( 8–10 ) . |
| 22 | We show that the main early and late promoters from the Bacillus subtilis phage φ29 form unstable open complexes that are stabilized either by the formation of the first phosphodiester bond between the initiating nucleoside triphosphates or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 23 | In fact , Caernarfon is the nearest building Wales has to a royal palace having been owned continuously by the Crown ever since Edward I established it in 1283 . |
| 24 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 25 | Perhaps they are carried eastwards by the Gulf Stream in spite of anything they themselves may do . |
| 26 | The bulges and indentations are carried downstream by the flow . |
| 27 | The pleasures of driving our GTi are equalled only by the irritations . |
| 28 | News : In the UK the major news programmes are organised nationally by the BBC and ITN ( Independent Television News ) . |
| 29 | Females are attracted only by the song , as can be demonstrated by putting out a loudspeaker broadcasting the tape-recording song of a male cricket : females of that species will approach it . |
| 30 | It has been mended twice by the plumber — once with jointing compound , and then with a non-setting mastic filler . |