Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further quantitative analysis may be carried out for consonant structure , liquid confusion , lengthening , palatalisation and order of acquisition of consonants , although this requires the test to be tape recorded and can be successfully completed only by someone with a sound knowledge of phonemic analysis . |
| 2 | He glanced round the small untidy sitting room and saw Maidstone 's jacket on the back of a chair , presumably placed there by Franco . |
| 3 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 4 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 5 | From two furlongs out , the well-backed and fancied maiden Adam Smith was the only serious threat but the older horse , vigorously shaken up by Steve Cauthen , put him firmly in his place . |
| 6 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 7 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 8 | The government published its White Paper on the Environment on Sept. 25 , 1990 but it was widely criticized both by politicians and by environmentalists as merely reiterating measures already incorporated into the Environmental Protection Bill which was going through parliament and was enacted on Nov. 1 , 1990 . |
| 9 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 10 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 11 | Things that we do n't want to remember may be indelibly engraved on the mind , little eroded even by time , but million of unimportant things are blissfully forgotten — which is just as well for our mental health ! |
| 12 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 13 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 14 | because the work is more effectively carried out by a single-purpose organization rather than by a government department with a wide range of functions ; |
| 15 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 16 | A long clearence from defence , eventually picked up by Gary Bull , who slid past a slippery Anderson , judged it well past the keeper to poke home his 18th of the season . |
| 17 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 18 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 19 | They were badly caught out by Wednesday night 's opinion poll results , which suggested the Tories were still in with a chance . |
| 20 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember one who was literally hanging on by his fingertips when we arrived , but we 've always got them up in the end . ’ |
| 22 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 23 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 24 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 25 | ‘ I only got away by throwing hen feed at the sheep to distract them . ’ |
| 26 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 27 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 28 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 29 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 30 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |