Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 2 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 3 | The casual and amateurish character of much British diplomacy in particular , even in the eighteenth centry , is reflected in the fact that when an appointment , especially a relatively minor one , fell vacant without any suitable new holder of it being immediately available , it was sometimes filled merely by a casual volunteer . |
| 4 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 5 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 6 | The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip , drip , drip . |
| 7 | At the end of a busy day , broken only by a brief snack lunch with Mike Freeman 's secretary , Kate , Merrill was tired . |
| 8 | After many years of almost continuous work , broken only by a short honeymoon in 1833 , Gooch 's health failed and he was taken ill in 1847 at his London office . |
| 9 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 10 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
| 11 | Under section 14(2) , a fishing vessel is to be regarded as being British-owned if the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel is beneficially owned wholly by a qualified company or companies or , as to at least 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 12 | It might possibly be occupied only by a raddled ancient , of no threat . |
| 13 | Firm C was a provincial branch practice in a north country town , carried largely by a managing clerk . |
| 14 | A finger of grey granite boulders defiantly standing there in the mud and sand , surrounded permanently by a large lake during low water , much to the delight of the local children during the Summer . |
| 15 | He was pursued also by an unsubstantiated rumour ( put about by others in the Shah 's entourage ) that he had stolen millions of dollars from the Shah . |
| 16 | At the village 's eastern outskirts , surrounded now by a modern housing estate , a conical brick kiln is preserved . |
| 17 | The conversion of methanol and carbon monoxide into acetic acid is catalysed homogeneously by a soluble rhodium compound . |
| 18 | The female is attracted there by a colourful advertisement display given on the nest itself . |
| 19 | Relatively unimportant as these smaller losses may seem compared with the main one , together they may add up to a total picture of her life which she feels has been shattered overnight by a single blow . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , a republican splinter group torn apart by a savage feud over drugs money has agreed to disband . |
| 21 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 22 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 23 | I justify this departure from intention by advancing a theory that Skye was obviously once a part of the mainland : a study of the map confirms that it is separated only by a narrow channel , Kyle Rhea , the configuration of the shores on either side matching as though torn apart in ages past . |
| 24 | The deep silence was disturbed only by an occasional flurry of wind echoing strangely around unseen rock faces — the giant sighs of a sleeping mountain . |
| 25 | Of miraculously complicated organisms so small that they can be seen only by a privileged élite , through microscopes costing several thousand pounds ? |
| 26 | If any greater certainty could be given then it could be done only by an unacceptable narrowing of the duty to restrict it to a part of the auditors responsibilities and we 're also concerned that to do so could have potentially wide ranging implications for the scope of auditor 's functions more generally . |
| 27 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 28 | Written pseudonymously by an old pro , and there is talk of basing a promotion on guessing who he is , which could be fun . |
| 29 | It was answered promptly by an unsmiling Ernestine . |
| 30 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |