Example sentences of "and [adv] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet . |
| 2 | The historical and social claim to professional autonomy is counterproductive in an environment where pedagogic autonomy is increasingly inhibited , entry to teaching is controlled by DES policy and not by a professional body , conditions of employment are nationally prescribed and major management initiatives , such as staff development , appraisal , recruitment and promotion , are increasingly subject to DES guidelines . |
| 3 | For the Formalists originality is constituted only by a reworking of the available devices and not by a personal vision in the lived experience of writers . |
| 4 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
| 5 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 6 | Sometimes a tooth will become decayed which will need to be extracted with an anaesthetic and thus by a veterinary surgeon . |
| 7 | Between them is a third cell , represented inside by a stone-vaulted unit and outside by a strong buttress on the north side . |
| 8 | They were soon identified as potential customers by tradesmen , bankers , building societies , and insurance companies , then by streetcar and railway companies , by the publishers of newspapers , journals , and cheap novels , and finally by a whole army of showmen whose task it was to inveigle the masses into circuses , fairgrounds , peepshows , roller-skating pavilions , theatres , and sporting fixtures . |
| 9 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 10 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 11 | The SAS was to be augmented by a number of men from 1 Special Service Regiment , who were untrained in desert raiding , and also by a naval party and even two tanks . |
| 12 | A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways . |
| 13 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 14 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 15 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 16 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 17 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 18 | He died 5 January 1737 , ‘ suddenly , of a fit of apoplexy , as he was sitting in his chair at his house in Bartlett 's Buildings , Holborn ’ , and was succeeded first by his son Erasmus [ q.v. ] , the author of several treatises on economics , and then by a younger son , John , ‘ a notorious Jacobite ’ . |
| 19 | This he had done , according to the story , by finding the weight of water displaced first by the crown and then by an equal weight of pure gold , the measurement being that of weighing the water displaced from a full bowl . |
| 20 | The rumour of noise from under the trees became spaced , punctuated by sharper sounds and sometimes by a subterranean crackling , like distant footsteps in frost . |
| 21 | And therefore by a mighty feat of arithmetic we come up with the figure of what , one hundred and twenty eight go for the system by thirds . |