Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , however , the impassioned and intelligent dinner conversations held over hearty cassoulets , with rapidly emptying bottles of Beauj' or Burgundy , have become the subject of satire ( primarily and most successfully by The Guardian 's cartoonist Posy Simmonds ) . |
| 2 | One of the assumptions that underlies a traditional approach to the role of the tutor is the idea that more effort , direction , control , leadership , motivation and so on by the tutor is better . |
| 3 | It has often been suggested that the active self-government practised by the Athenians was only made possible by the existence of slavery , and perhaps also by the existence of empire as a source of revenue to pay for democracy . |
| 4 | From 1836 he visited Italy on more than one occasion , but these travels appear to have been prompted more by recreational than professional pursuits — he made a collection of Roman coins , medals , and other antiquities — and perhaps also by the state of his health . |
| 5 | It has been stated that the principle of primogenital succession was increasingly observed in the eleventh century ; but there was a substantial difference between accepting the customary right of the eldest son to succeed , if he were of age and competent , and accepting it as an inviolable rule , as was proved by the usurpation of Robert the Frisian , and perhaps also by the succession of Raymond IV of Toulouse ( though here the facts are rather uncertain ) . |
| 6 | Specific changes were determined primarily by the head and senior management team and only latterly by the rest of the staff . |
| 7 | Land by the Shropshire Union Canal in Boughton and further down by the Tower Wharf could be among the prime sites . |
| 8 | The extent to which silver was obtained from galena rather than from natural silver-gold alloys can be judged in part through the presence of lead artefacts and more directly by the purity of silver artefacts . |
| 9 | The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on . |
| 10 | This point has been made strongly about the Home Help Service , arguably the most crucial support for old people in the community , by Goldberg and Connelly ( 1982 ) , and more recently by the Audit Commission ( 1985 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 12 | One , the Instrumental form , can be observed in the increase in outside intervention in school and teacher practices partly by LEAs ( Parsons and Steadman , 1984 ) , and more recently by the DES ( Davis , 1980 ; Lawton , 1984 ; Raggatt and Weiner , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | But , of course , the plans to realise these assets have been badly hit by the recession and more recently by the war in the Gulf . |
| 14 | She was , in other words , a genuine believer in the ideals of enlightened government ( perhaps a more sincere one than the king of Prussia ) ; but her application of these ideals was limited to some extent by her personal weaknesses and far more by the demands and pressures of the situation in which history had placed her . |
| 15 | The issue was raised again by Denmark after the war , first in 1948 and then successfully by the premier , Hans Hedtoft , at a meeting of the Nordic Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1951 . |
| 16 | And then only by the school tennis courts away from the rest of the school . |
| 17 | A caesarean section is the ultimate answer to many calving problems but according to Mr Barwise-Munro : ‘ It 's still regarded by farmers as a last resort and very often by the time the vet is called , the cow has been left too long with the result that she has to be culled . |