Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These pungent performances are a signal reminder of why Barbirolli was so favoured by this composer . |
| 3 | I was somewhat fascinated by this German gun . |
| 4 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 5 | It is the rapist who is morally degraded by this appalling act . |
| 6 | We are sworn to protect the Führer and yet are constantly threatened by this conspiracy of generals . ’ |
| 7 | You were only saved by this new wonder drug , penicillin . ’ |
| 8 | Saint Basil was so enchanted by this selfless action that he concluded his comments with the words ‘ If things seen are so lovely , what must things unseen be ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She has never done or said anything which could help out these pensioners who will be greatly angered by this flamboyant display of wealth . ’ |
| 10 | So far , this ’ — he pointed to the newspaper — ‘ is the only evidence we 'd found of such preparations , but if there are others they will be swiftly terminated by this Society and its agents . |
| 11 | Relations between masters and men were obviously affected by this development . |
| 12 | And that person 's consumption habits and purchase behaviour will be as much affected by this socialisation process as any other form of individual and social behaviour . |
| 13 | This has sometimes led to social divisions between newcomers and locals , as mentioned in chapter 1 , although the more remote rural areas are less affected by this influx than the accessible countryside . |
| 14 | Whereas the perceiving person is much mm less phased by this and says , oh well there are lots of people , that 's nice . |
| 15 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 16 | Therefore one step length corresponds to a quarter tooth pitch and the four static torque/rotor position characteristics are mutually displaced by this distance , as shown in Fig. 3.6(a) . |
| 17 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 18 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 19 | She was naturally gratified by this change of front , and drew the appropriate moral the possession of big breasts , like the possession of a tendency to acquire good examination results , implies power . |
| 20 | The fact that educational policies , such as positive images , might attempt to reflect the social reality of an increasingly diverse society and to address the needs of individual children , was greatly undermined by this whole campaign . |
| 21 | Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market and the street 's better known by this name , what is it ? |
| 22 | He hurried away , his heart beating fast , shocked but obscurely satisfied by this revelation . |
| 23 | Electronic project construction is probably less troubled by this type of thing than many others , perhaps due to the fact that it is an indoor pursuit which is not dependent on the weather . |
| 24 | Verses 23–25 : the likelihood of heavy cropping is greatly increased by this practice . |
| 25 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 26 | William Morris was so struck by this his first sight of Kelmscott Manor , that he immortalised it in his book , News from Nowhere . |
| 27 | David was greatly encouraged by this warm admiration expressed by a celebrated man , and it helped to develop his talent . |
| 28 | I felt somewhat thrown by this information , having assumed Sergei had simply made a mistake in the Christian name . |
| 29 | Marc looked merely bored by this . |
| 30 | Towards the end of her life she paid a visit to Lourdes and , despite her suffering , she was greatly comforted by this experience . |