Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move , described as " a balancing act " , was widely regarded as an attempt by the government both to pacify religious fundamentalists critical of recent changes in its policy towards Afghanistan [ see pp. 38725-26 ] , and to secure closer co-operation from the ISI . |
| 2 | The £500 white van , which was reported stolen from Wallasey , eventually crashed into a field by the Post House hotel , on Wrexham Road , in Chester . |
| 3 | At that time there was a war raging in Europe , and the next year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and was badly wounded during an attack by the enemy army . |
| 4 | ( His appearance on the bench was nicely caught in a cartoon by David Langton . ) |
| 5 | So the citizen could only flourish as a person by acting as a part or member of the whole , the community . |
| 6 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 7 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 8 | Richard Nixon , meanwhile , was constantly driven into a fury by congressional and bureaucratic resistance to his domestic policy initiatives . |
| 9 | The move followed the failure of " Operation Footloose " , an Army offensive launched in January 1990 , and was widely seen as an acceptance by the government that the escalating conflict could not be resolved by military means . |
| 10 | In fact , the action was widely seen as an attempt by George Bush 's close pal , President Turgut Ozal , to prove himself more militantly anti-Kurd than his chief rival , Suleyman Demirel , in the run-up to the October 20th general election . |
| 11 | The Sejm had passed a resolution on May 28 calling for the exposure by June 20 of former security service agents in positions of authority , but its early implementation was widely seen as an attempt by the government to retain power . |
| 12 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 13 | Apart from its convenience as a legitimation of the rule of white over coloured , rich over poor , it is perhaps best explained as a mechanism by means of which a fundamentally inegalitarian society based upon a fundamentally egalitarian ideology rationalised its inequalities , and attempted to justify and defend those privileges which the democracy implicit in its institutions must inevitably challenge . |
| 14 | They are likely to be fairly extrovert personalities , who are clear and confident in their approach to people and can easily relate to a stranger by establishing immediate contact . |
| 15 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 16 | Where a building is fully sprinklered throughout in accordance with CP402.201.1 1952 , and has means of escape to the complete satisfaction of the Local Authority and Fire Authority , then , for the purposes of relaxation , Table 1 distances in Schedule 10 are generally accepted as a minimum by the Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | Police numbers and resources are no longer seen as a vade-mecum by the police or the Government ( as Hurd , for example , made clear in his speech to the Police Foundation Conference in Oxford on 11 April 1988 ) — hardly surprising after nine ‘ wasted ’ years . |
| 18 | It was a contentious issue and was generally seen as an attempt by the party 's left wing to try to remove some Labour members of whom they disapproved . |
| 19 | What is forgotten is the limitations of coverage of both these works , as can be easily seen by an item by item comparison of sections of the two books . |
| 20 | Before considering how we might do the job mathematically , let us just draw in a line by eye , to go through the centre of the data points . |
| 21 | Kersey arrived on time and found Marks already seated at a table by the window with a pint in front of him . |
| 22 | The retention of these two was widely interpreted as a move by the future government to counterbalance the influence of President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , who had resisted requests from Aylwin that he step down for his post of Commander in Chief of the Army [ see p. 37117 ] . |
| 23 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 24 | As a result , Graham always sleeps in a cot by his parents ' bed . |
| 25 | One of those in the escape , Barry Morton , 24 , was recaptured in Liverpool on Wednesday and was yesterday remanded for a week by magistrates in Manchester charged with escaping from custody and being at large . |
| 26 | Once prized as a rarity by an elite of connoisseurs , it is now freely available through many garden centres , so we can all have a go at growing this most distinctive of shade-loving perennials . |
| 27 | The special , if residual , connection between language and the cultural strategy of the Newbolt Report is further clarified in an article by J. H. G. Grattan , " On the Anglo-American cultivation of Standard English " . |
| 28 | This shows a decline from their levels of support in the 1980s , but hardly counts as a rejection by the electorate . |
| 29 | PEKING yesterday bristled at a decision by Hong Kong to allow a top Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who sought political asylum in the West , to travel to the United States . |
| 30 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |