Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him . |
| 2 | Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel . |
| 3 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 4 | In some areas , however , a different model of teamwork has evolved in which the tasks of assessment and management are shared , and not all patients are necessarily seen at any time by a psychiatrist . |
| 5 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 6 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 7 | Much depends on organised pressure by local concerned interests and individuals resident in the ‘ salmon constituencies ’ of Scotland . |
| 8 | Lakes and rivers in heavily farmed counties such as Cavan have long suffered from irresponsible dumping by farmers . |
| 9 | It is only saved from universal condemnation by the partial political acceptance of the argument that this nuclear readiness does not in practice involve a real threat and that nuclear weapons will in fact never be used . |
| 10 | The judge was only saved from this punishment by the intervention of St Praeiectus , whom he had honoured in his lifetime . |
| 11 | The McNair Report on teacher training ( see Chapter 9 ) appeared in May , but both it and the Act were apparently overshadowed in public interest by the Fleming Report on that subject of endless fascination to the English , the Public Schools . |
| 12 | This hedonist tends to live for the moment , because if one is constantly distracted from present experience by designs for the future nothing will ever be fully enjoyed . |
| 13 | That evening while wandering round the bazaar I was suddenly greeted with great friendliness by the erstwhile sufferer , who announced that he was now all right and was going back to his village next morning . |
| 14 | The hotel was completely renewed in 1990 and is personally run with great pride by Signor Sama . |
| 15 | Salisbury was much struck at this meeting by Irwin 's confidence in the future . |
| 16 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 17 | One idea is that viruses can simply pass through the cell membrane , perhaps aided in some way by the receptor protein ( B 1 in Figure ) . |
| 18 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 19 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 20 | These generally relied on voluntary action by the relevant professional associations , although they have often only come after protracted negotiations following official investigations . |
| 21 | Indeed , their growth generally occurred without direct funding by London financiers and merchants . |
| 22 | One significant development was the emergence of the neuron theory that held that the brain was composed of discrete cellular elements , the neurons , that were physically separated from each other by gaps called synapses . |
| 23 | I have been examining the exercise of critical thought , but the account up to now has largely concentrated on critical thinking by the individual student . |
| 24 | Examinations usually start at 9 a.m. , so make sure that you are physically attuned to that time by keeping regular hours and rising sufficiently early for at least a week before . |
| 25 | The hard mods had already taken to cropped hair by 1964 and the style was taken further by the skinheads , giving rise to their own name of peanuts and other names such as lemons , spy kids and no-heads . |
| 26 | Yet the charisma was already fuelled in large part by that sexual eagerness and masculine vulnerability which beat across the footlights and through the lens for years to come . |
| 27 | Conventional medical practice is generally held in high esteem by society and the medical profession represents one of the most powerful , high-status bodies in the country . |
| 28 | He died in 1315 , but during his lifetime was still regarded as rightful king by many of his one-time subjects . |
| 29 | Two proposals led by my family health services authority are to establish a new pattern of audiological services in primary care for elderly patients operating from general practice rather than ear , nose , and throat departments , and to reach a consensus on the range of conditions that can be cost effectively , appropriately , and equitably treated in general practice by physiotherapists . |
| 30 | ( As an aside , one wonders if Mr Harrod would have written in similar terms about the work of the reference librarian or any other senior post usually occupied in that period by a man . ) |