Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When inputting answers , lower case ( ‘ small letters ’ ) must be used — turn CAPS LOCK light off by pressing CAPS LOCK key once , and leave it off . |
| 2 | Most activity in the zones in 1986 was clearly either there pre-designation , or it represents movements in by existing branches or by firms within the region . |
| 3 | Doug winds this invisible gladiator in by bitter degrees , inches rather than feet at a time . |
| 4 | The issue of woman as victim as opposed to woman as survivor was tackled head on by Polish director Zofia Kalinska whose work showing women as bearers of demonic energy culminated in the formation of the Magic Circle , which went on in 1988 to tour a collectively devised piece called Nominate Filiae . |
| 5 | or where they set tables down by small rivers , |
| 6 | After a while he gains in sexual confidence and tries to spice things up by mock-raping her . |
| 7 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 8 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 9 | Attempts by Côte d'Ivoire , the world 's largest producer , to keep prices up by withholding stock also foundered amidst the country 's worsening debt crisis [ see p. 36676 ] . |
| 10 | The intention of the Board was to gear the escalating fines to the increasing prizemonies round by round . |
| 11 | Nice little touch on by Speedy Pearce wins it back and there 's Speedy again trying to release Jochim . |
| 12 | for one moment it seemed that the bald man would carry the situation through by sheer force of character . |
| 13 | Plan to go way up by Double Breasted Cay . |
| 14 | The news worked its way round by devious stages to the ears of Brother Jerome , that the bird he desired with all his narrow might to ensnare had taken flight to a safe distance . |