Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 2 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 3 | E. Hosta ‘ Halcyon ’ Choice perennial with arresting blue , paddle-shaped leaves in summer , joined eventually by stocky stems of lilac flowers . |
| 4 | He was treated badly by most of the people around him . |
| 5 | It was also beginning to vex Hal , who was treated badly by those wider than him . |
| 6 | The DNF contained patriotic leftist Koreans led astray by communist propaganda ; it was important to persuade such people to support moderation and democracy . |
| 7 | Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they 'll adapt little by little . " |
| 8 | F&WS officials predict that they may disappear altogether by 2006 [ see also ED 59-60 ] . |
| 9 | Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win . |
| 10 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 11 | Robertson 's authorization passed on by Eighth Army was acted on by HQ 5 Corps [ KP 145 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 13 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 14 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 15 | It is notable that the one country which stands to lose most by free competition in labour is Germany , where labour and social costs are highest . |
| 16 | In the past decade , some CF centres have reported increased isolations of P cepacia that can not be explained only by improved laboratory proficiency in culture and identification . |
| 17 | In Japan , robotics seems to be limited only by human imagination and technology . |
| 18 | We do n't earn much by international standards , conditions of work are arduous , and chronic underfunding often makes them more so . |
| 19 | For much of her first term the thrust of economic policy was regarded sceptically by many colleagues . |
| 20 | This increased temperature dependence can not be explained merely by additional carbon conduction , as graphite conduction is nearly independent of temperature . |
| 21 | Sadberge won the wooden trophy made especially by one of the Haughton players . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |
| 23 | Many partnerships , of course , are characterised by much more superficial , less close relationships between education and business where , crucially , activities remain largely separate from the mainstream activities of both and owned only by those individuals who are involved rather their organisations . |
| 24 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |
| 25 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 26 | But , within the limits laid down by that doctrine , it is for the power-holder to decide what to do . |
| 27 | Nor is such a provision invalidated because the method of communicating the offer differs from that prescribed by section 90 ; but the procedure laid down by that section supersedes that provided in the memorandum or articles . |
| 28 | In Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 the court held that where a lease provides that an application to appoint a surveyor is to be made to a specified appointing body like the RICS , the application had to follow the procedures laid down by that appointing body . |
| 29 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 30 | The extracellular matrix laid down by microbial cells in microbial biosensors will show a more random orientation of structural components , but these can also have a dominant influence on the flux of the product and the substrate . |