Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 2 | The need to work for a living is widely recognized , but the necessity to do so may have often been bitterly resented by many people over the years . |
| 3 | Both the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services , Louis Sullivan , welcomed the findings , although the methods of the survey were widely criticized by many independent experts . |
| 4 | There is another problem when it comes to applying market prices to environmental capital : the pieces of green environment that are most treasured by most people are their gardens . |
| 5 | I was badly shaken by that pact . |
| 6 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 7 | Response to the moh lam presentations demonstrates that it is throughly enjoyed by all . |
| 8 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 9 | Norman Cook is a little unnerved by all this interest . |
| 10 | Under present UK law , a company has a separate legal personality ; and its members , even if it is wholly owned by another company , are not — at any rate in theory — liable for its debts and other obligations . |
| 11 | Capt Forgrave 's citation said he ‘ became widely respected by all sides as a courageous , totally honest and highly capable officer . ’ |
| 12 | Steam and diesel haulage were eventually enjoyed by most of us , the latter represented by a very smart Class 20 . |
| 13 | Though agreed between the parties , these proposals were bitterly attacked by some Conservatives as destroying the traditional upper House and by a few Labour members as creating a large new area of patronage for the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | The central core of the town was mostly occupied by those families which had lived in Dronfield before the momentous decision was taken in 1873 by the new company of Wilson Cammell to found a large steelworks specializing in the manufacture of rails made from Bessemer steel . |
| 15 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 16 | A close friend who was gay — we were never quite lovers but we were inseparable for a while — went off with a woman and I was incredibly devastated by this . |
| 17 | For this reason , the announcement this Thursday of the recommendations of the Murray committee for the future structure of county cricket from 1993 onwards will be keenly awaited by all in the game . |
| 18 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ We are greatly honoured by these distinctions since we have truly dedicated all our lives , with passion , to the knowledge and diffusion of Italian art ’ . |
| 20 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |
| 21 | Direct Debits are an ideal way of collecting large volumes of low value receipts and are greatly favoured by many institutions such as local authorities and building societies . |
| 22 | Mr Hicks ' framework is well presented but much travelled by many companies , set on improving the quality of cost information based on sound and robust examples . |
| 23 | These pungent performances are a signal reminder of why Barbirolli was so favoured by this composer . |
| 24 | Such misbehaviour of strata in their most classic sections leads me to have serious doubts ( in fact , positive hatred ) of the concept of the " stratotype " so much favoured by many continental workers . |
| 25 | The 1980 collection was the pirate look : white frilly shirts and baggy knee length trousers devised for Adam Ant , collected by the V&A , and much favoured by those of a New Romantic persuasion . |
| 26 | As shown in Table 4.1 , the numbers of pre-school and school-age children were both about one-fifth lower in 1988 than in 1971 , together contracting by some 2.7 million . |
| 27 | I was somewhat fascinated by this German gun . |
| 28 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |
| 29 | The symptoms may seem trivial : dirty buildings or badly prepared and unimaginatively-presented food , but Hungary or Czechoslovakia are not inherently poor countries and their peoples are merely insulted by such decay . |
| 30 | She looked sideways at Finn to see if he was sufficiently irritated by all this . |