Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [subord] [verb] by the " in BNC.

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1 This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October .
2 The consumers ' hints and suggestions , communicated over considerable distance and thereby often greatly distorted when realized by the manufacturers , resulted in changes in the cloth , which in turn prompted further comments .
3 A catastrophe can happen when the system energy is no longer channelled as intended by the designers or because there is a release of toxic substances or both .
4 It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy .
5 What is required is that the language which is pedagogically presented should be a projection of that which actually occurs as recorded by the computer analysis of text .
6 An expansion of loans and therefore deposits unless matched by the acquisition of additional cash deposits , must cause a deterioration in the liquidity position of a bank .
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