Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |
| 2 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 3 | The principle of induction can not be justified merely by an appeal to logic . |
| 4 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 5 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 6 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 7 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 8 | The next moment Ronni was being led inside , into a huge tiled entrance hall with a round central table weighed down by an enormous vase of fresh flowers . |
| 9 | It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient . |
| 10 | Like Simpkin , Wood was let down by an erratic serve . |
| 11 | The best known pheromone is emitted not by an ant but by the female silk moth ( Bombyx mori ) . |
| 12 | This edge of the park is planted with large pine-trees , whose trunks and branches are red-ochre , the foliage green gloomed over by an admixture of black . |
| 13 | In her statement to MPs , Mrs Bottomley said the reforms would be carried through by an implementation group , and a London initiative zone would make sure the reforms cover the most deprived areas of the city . |
| 14 | Some eruptions have become major historical events , since many of the world 's greatest natural disasters have been associated with volcanoes , either directly through the effects of explosions and suffocation by volcanic gases , or indirectly through the much further-reaching effects of tidal waves triggered off by an eruption , such as those resulting from the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 . |
| 15 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 16 | One of his passengers dropped the Cessna 's dinghy to the JetRanger 's pilot , who was subsequently picked up by an RAF SAR helicopter which took him to hospital in Blackpool suffering from hypothermia . |
| 17 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 18 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 19 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 20 | Lieutenant Davis was caught ashore next night and his paddler , Able Seaman McGuire , was picked up by an armed fishing boat . |
| 21 | He was picked up by an RAF helicopter at Crowdy , near Davidstow . |
| 22 | The Range Rover came into Belfast and was picked up by an army escort of two personnel-carriers on the outskirts . |
| 23 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 24 | The oscillations stimulated in the sample are picked up by an arm attached to the rigidly fixed end held in torsion bars , and transmitted to a recorder by a linear variable differential transformer . |
| 25 | Police fear the instrument may have been dumped and could be picked up by an unsuspecting member of the public . |
| 26 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 27 | He was pursued also by an unsubstantiated rumour ( put about by others in the Shah 's entourage ) that he had stolen millions of dollars from the Shah . |
| 28 | Every reaction on a metabolic chart is speeded up by an enzyme . |
| 29 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 30 | He was a child again , wanting everything to be sorted out by an adult . |