Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nora was not nearly so impressed by that sort of thing as her cousin but she admitted to herself that it was unlikely a man from such a background would be deceiving Constance . |
| 2 | Thus the ‘ study ’ on which he embarked was , one suspects , confined to one aspect of the question : was the Church 's authority so committed by Casti Connubii of 1931 that any change now would discredit that authority ? |
| 3 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 4 | We are sworn to protect the Führer and yet are constantly threatened by this conspiracy of generals . ’ |
| 5 | The crackdown provoked an international outcry , although this was greatly tempered by Western recognition of the need to maintain Soviet support for the campaign against Iraq in the Gulf war [ see pp. 37934-43 ] . |
| 6 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 7 | Closely hobbled with tightly drawn ropes they can only move by laborious hopping with arched backs … |
| 8 | The free market had virtues too long eclipsed by slavish conformity to collective ideals that no longer seemed relevant . |
| 9 | The reason is that with Van Gogh art and life are not merely conditioned by each other to a greater degree than with any other artist , but actually merge with each other . |
| 10 | She was naturally gratified by this change of front , and drew the appropriate moral the possession of big breasts , like the possession of a tendency to acquire good examination results , implies power . |
| 11 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 12 | With a vigour amounting to tactlessness they put dissension and argument into film debate , too long overshadowed by blind acceptance of yesteryear 's taste . |
| 13 | Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time . |
| 14 | According to the World Health Organization it may soon be possible for these disorders to be controlled or even eliminated — but since there is no cure , this can only mean by early detection in the fetus and abortion . |
| 15 | Electronic project construction is probably less troubled by this type of thing than many others , perhaps due to the fact that it is an indoor pursuit which is not dependent on the weather . |
| 16 | For the most part , however , the various reassessments have not led to a complete rejection of Marxist theory , but to lively controversy about , and substantial revision of , some of its central concepts — those of class , party , ideology , the state , the capitalist mode of production , the transition to socialism — in the course of which Marxism has been greatly influenced by recent work in the social sciences and the philosophy of science . |
| 17 | Deep sleep only troubled by noisy return of Mudskippers from ‘ The 361 Guppies ’ 30 minutes after closing time . |
| 18 | De Gaulle was also disappointed with West German policy after Adenauer 's resignation from office in 1963 and was especially offended by German interest in an American plan for a ‘ Multilateral Nuclear Force ’ in NATO . |
| 19 | The first students were warmly welcomed by local Bridge of Allan residents , who donated ‘ starter kits ’ , of kitchen utensils , china etc . |
| 20 | But in Athens freedom of speech was integral to democracy , because the process of self-government by the citizens was necessarily conducted by open debate in the assembly and in the council . |
| 21 | Needless to say , those infected with HIV are unlikely to be much comforted by intemperate comment of this kind . |
| 22 | Of course , there is nothing to guarantee that the authorities will stick by the same decision rules : they could become so agitated by public concern over the build up of inflationary pressure that they could jettison their employment objective and opt for contractionary demand management policies . |
| 23 | Perhaps the greatest achievement of this approach was the prediction by Young and by Helmholtz ( in Mollon 1982 ) , in the nineteenth century , of the existence of three classes of colour-sensitive receptor in the retina , each sensitive to a different wavelength of light , a prediction only confirmed by direct measurement in the last thirty years ( Mollon 1982 ) . |
| 24 | In Committee , the Lord Chancellor , Gardiner , a prominent campaigner against capital punishment , tried unsuccessfully to lessen the impact of the Commons amendment by proposing that the five year experimental period should expire on 31 July , only if Parliament so determined by affirmative resolution of both Houses . |
| 25 | She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible . |
| 26 | In addition , both men and women have masculine and feminine genes within them , but their gender is normally recognized by one set of genes having predominance over the other . |
| 27 | The trial of these charges was subsequently fixed for June 1992 , with an estimated duration of nine weeks , and in the light of the advice already given by this Board in relation to the appeal , it is now in progress . |
| 28 | Mildly cheered by this glimmer of light in the midst of nightmare , she made her way down to the library . |
| 29 | Though generally appropriated by humanist criticism as a recognizable origin of itself , nosce teipsum may nevertheless have something crucial in common with the formulations of post-structuralism . |
| 30 | Another part of the mill was already occupied by another firm of stick and umbrella fitting manufactures , Wright , Bindley and Gell , who remained there to the 1950s . |