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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In An 685 King Ecgfrith decided to expand his realm still further by a large-scale attack on the Pictish lands . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The government 's budget was strengthened by increased customs revenue and more particularly by a spectacular rise in indirect taxation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Through these roles the teacher intervenes in the child 's learning , most often by a careful structuring of the contexts for writing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The achievements of the past 10 years will be jeopardised not only by the present bout of inflation , but even more by a general loss of confidence in the Government 's ability to deal with it . |
| 19 | Wycliffe had to make his way past a small crowd of would-be sightseers held well back by a uniformed policeman . |
| 20 | This was illustrated most illuminatingly by a recent study in which a group of people were asked to eat more than a pound of potatoes each day ( baked in their skins , not fried ) in addition to whatever other food they could manage to eat . |
| 21 | However , the necessary reputation could be obtained relatively quickly by an intensive advertising campaign on national television . |
| 22 | Thus her household , which is unusual if not unique and which is financed at least partly by a charitable trust , in July this year totalled 39 individuals including adult helpers and some 12 children under the age of 16 . |
| 23 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 24 | spreading by the blood , the bacilli become established in every part of the body and thus overcome the patient , not so much by local damage as by the great general toxaemia , which produces symptoms not unlike those of typhoid fever – irregular fever , rapid pulse , dry skin and all the evidence of raging pyrexia , leading to delirium and coma , followed almost inevitably by a fatal termination . |
| 25 | We continue on heading until we pick up another waypoint , the particular shape of a section of the B1052 , where a very sharp right-hand bend is followed almost immediately by a minor road off to the east and a small hamlet , Brinkley , further north ( J ) . |
| 26 | Somewhere close by there was an almighty splash , followed almost immediately by a large wave washing over them . |
| 27 | Thus in the theory of rubber elasticity the polymer chain is represented quite well by a random walk in three dimensions and from this the chain entropy and hence the free energy are deduced . |
| 28 | But alas , it was destroyed when I was there recently by a long line of caravans along the beach . |
| 29 | Most shares change in price most days — usually by very little and only infrequently by quite a lot , and then very rarely by a huge amount , say 50 per cent or more . |
| 30 | Not always through royal initiative , and certainly not by a deliberate policy , Edward I 's reign witnessed some major developments much to the long-term disadvantage of the English church . |