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

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1 Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling .
2 I hurried back to the house to be met immediately by the first footman saying : ‘ We 've been looking all over for you , sir .
3 Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ?
4 And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner .
5 In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones .
6 In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon .
7 It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold .
8 Whole gut transit was determined radiographically by the first arrival of the radio-opaque marker(s) and the time when 50% or more of the radio-opaque markers were in the stool .
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