Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] by the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 2 | Using a non-brittle stone , such as jade , shaping could only be carried out by the infinitely more laborious process of grinding . |
| 3 | An increase in the real money supply can be brought about by the far more direct route of central bank intervention to increase the nominal stock of money by an amount sufficient to attain full employment . |
| 4 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 5 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | But there are few advocates for patients with anorexia nervosa and they carry the risk of being squeezed out by the increasingly technological emphasis of general medicine and the concentration of psychiatric services on the needs of chronic psychotic patients . |
| 7 | There are some words which are simply anomalous , like women , or once or gaol ( which is , anyway , being pushed out by the more reasonable jail ) . |
| 8 | A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life . |
| 9 | Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor . |
| 10 | For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went . |
| 11 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 12 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 13 | The food was served up by the equally cheerful owner , a middle-aged lady who did not believe in overcharging her customers . |