Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] by [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned .
2 The 500-KW pressurized light water reactor , in operation since 1972 , was shut down automatically by an emergency cooling system which flooded the reactor core , thereby avoiding the risk of a partial " meltdown " similar to that at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 [ see p. 29991 ] .
3 The reactor was shut down automatically by an emergency cooling system , which floods the reactor core , thereby avoiding the risk of a partial " meltdown " , similar to that which occurred in Three Mile Island , Pennsylvania , in 1979 .
4 After he had gone , she chatted with several of the other guests , learned more local history from Margrida , got pinned down again by the Dalgety executive .
5 Control can be exercised over both by the flow adjuster screw .
6 Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ?
7 Just then the noise increased dramatically , and was suddenly cut off again by a slamming door .
8 People with learning disabilities who need residential care in Bassetlaw can go to one of four staffed homes which were set up partly by the health authority and are run by the Mencap Homes Foundation .
9 It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press .
10 Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial .
11 The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes .
12 The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager .
13 Follow this ‘ teaser ’ with a second release giving full details of who , when and where , and follow it up again by a phone call checking that the right person has got the material .
14 On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form .
15 The form to be used for this is Form FLR2 , which should be sent out automatically by the Law Society Records Office at the appropriate time .
16 In contrast to this , all inputs to a process are carried out automatically by the IPC type expert system without consulting a human operator .
17 Drilling and circulation experiments have been carried out there by the Camborne School of Mines .
18 Distribution of United Distillers brands in New Zealand is carried out principally by the Magnum Corporation .
19 She let herself out softly by the family door , and made for the silver glimmer of water in haste .
20 This validation is carried out either by a SCOTVEC team if it 's a private centre or by the Director of Education if it 's a local authority centre .
21 The pioneering work started at North Road by Mr Wolfe is still carried on today by the Railway Preservation Society .
22 CHARITY will be the winner when a display of old time ploughing , combining and binding is put on tomorrow by the Seaforde Vintage Steam Threshing Rally .
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