Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A public road threads a delightful passage through woodlands in the company of river and loch for the first few miles , ending at a car park from which further progress is possible only by walking — and further progress should certainly be made . |
| 2 | This bone-white structure is almost half a mile high , a feat of engineering made possible only by magic . |
| 3 | it has come to seem like that only by accident . |
| 4 | Appreciably larger than Sandwich Tern , adult distinguishable from Lesser Crested only by size , heavier and yellower bill and darker grey plumage , but immature apparently lacks black wing-bar. 19 in. ( 48 cm ) |
| 5 | By the time he left the Old Kent Road school , he had absorbed the classics , learnt French , and was proficient in mathematics and in the sciences which were attainable only by university students . |
| 6 | Some internees were resident German-speakers , British only by background ; others were a large squad of Merchant Navy officers and seamen , British to their tough cores . |
| 7 | He does this more by implication than by direct statement . |
| 8 | Patterns of disruption and reconstitution of kin groups do seem very different now by comparison with the past . |
| 9 | This is Daphne Sheldrick 's ‘ home ’ for young orphaned elephants in Kenya — the triumph of a remarkable woman who has dedicated 40 years to saving wild animals , orphaned mainly by man 's greed or bloodlust . |
| 10 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 11 | ( The procedure requires , of course , acceptance of the view that not all encoded features of meaning are semantic simply by definition . ) |
| 12 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 13 | In these and other ways the state has favoured those companies who have displayed very high rates of investment , and this almost by definition excludes most small firms . |
| 14 | As with all Gibson 's books , the images are paired on opposing pages being visually connected with one another either by implication , texture , pattern or in the case of this particular volume , often by colour . |
| 15 | ICL OPENS MANCHESTER VERIFICATION CENTRE , PLANS 12 WORLDWIDE BY YEAR END |
| 16 | Slow , irregular footsteps , audible only by reason of the slight sucking of soft mud at the heels of someone 's shoes as he approached along the path . |
| 17 | But the largest camp , Zwi-Hamussit , is accessible only by air . |
| 18 | At present this area is accessible only by air for three-quarters of the year . |
| 19 | At the end of the lake , furthest from the palace , was a small kiosk accessible only by water , where one evening Prosper Mérimée read poetry aloud to the Empress and her companions . |
| 20 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 21 | Life has improved immeasurably since the first provincial premier , Joey Smallwood , began coaxing his people out of the hundreds of little ports that were accessible only by fishing boat and into more urban living . |
| 22 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 23 | All three sites investigated , in the Delaware River catchment , are accessible only by boat with camping occurring in a variety of campsites including camp-grounds , designated primitive sites and undeveloped user-selected sites . |
| 24 | Well I did n't get in till half six so by time he 'd put them |
| 25 | Civic disturbances increase , but prompted as much probably by impatience as anything else . |
| 26 | The Exmoor National Park had 23,900 hectares of moorland in 1947 which , by 1976 , had been reduced to 19,021 hectares ( a 20% loss ) , 26 mainly by conversion to Pasture . |
| 27 | She had achieved this much simply by courage ; her mouth was screwed up , there was no pleasure in it . |
| 28 | Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted . |
| 29 | Fees for the Junior and Senior School are payable either by lump sum on or before 5th September 1992 , for which an advance payment allowance of 4 ½%; will be granted , or by ten monthly instalments on the fifth day of each month from September to June inclusive under Direct Debit Mandate . |
| 30 | I pinched that yesterday by accident |