Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys are sinning by the second and the island is being destructed . |
| 2 | Behaviour , development , appearance , social role , etc. are still judged against a ‘ given ’ of social norms accepted as appropriate goals by the professional and the task is to bring the ‘ deviant ’ individual into line as far as possible , by modifying or repackaging or both . |
| 3 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
| 4 | I ought therefore to be grateful for being disorientated by the unfamiliar and the chance to focus the innocent eye . |
| 5 | At the same time it is a contract : responsibility , authority and accountability are defined by the superior and the individual in his job contracts to perform to the standards set . |
| 6 | Scotland 's disorientation continued after the break , worsened by the tighter marking of the midfield by the Maltese and the positioning of Nevin . |
| 7 | He said that without it ‘ the good employer is undercut by the bad and the bad by the worst ’ . |
| 8 | French grandiose schemes for the crossing of the Sahara came to nothing , but several lines from the coast to the interior of West Africa were built by the British and the French . |
| 9 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
| 10 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 11 | This is hardly surprising , since the minimap of the British Isles in question measures one inch by an inch-and-a-half and the circle denoting the airfield is more than 40 nm in diameter in scale . |