Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papers go through a rigorous vetting procedure , most importantly by question paper panels , which comment on the technical content and standard of the draft papers . |
| 2 | Those relationships are governed by general legal principles and by statute but most importantly by self-regulation which in any well run solicitors ' practice will be embodied in a properly drafted and partnership agreement kept up to date by regular review . |
| 3 | These trends and interrelationships can be illustrated most effectively by reference to the zone level of the Functional Regions framework , particularly the contrast between the Cores and Rings which make up the Daily Urban Systems of the 228 Functional Regions in Britain . |
| 4 | In practice , this prohibition did not work — the ‘ two ends ’ of marriage and birth control being addressed directly , the latter most outspokenly by Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh . |
| 5 | The desktop publishing market that has been exploited so effectively by Apple in recent months probably represents the top 20% of the market . |
| 6 | Wings was subsequently sold by Rank to Horizon at about the same time as Horizon was itself purchased more or less outright by Bass for £90 million in May 1987 . |
| 7 | When the gentleman in your office , however , addressed me not as Mrs Maitland , but by my maiden name , which is the one I write under , I realized that it must indeed be me who was being phoned , whereupon it suddenly seemed ( perhaps only by association of ideas ) imperative that I had the means of writing to hand . |
| 8 | Crime and tort relate closely as well , not only obviously by virtue of the same facts giving rise to different legal consequences but also , more interestingly , since the corning into effect of s. 35 of the Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 1973 , by virtue of the criminal courts pre-empting the civil courts in the matter of compensation , perhaps even in circumstances where no private right of action otherwise obtains . |
| 9 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 10 | The other two cases are included primarily to emphasize that a wide variety of phenomena is contained within the Lorenz equations , although , since yet further variety can be obtained by varying r/r c and b , they can do so only by example . |
| 11 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 12 | It was all over by half-time . |
| 13 | Overall , it was a good performance and we took our chances well so that it was all over by halftime , ’ said McHale . |
| 14 | Perhaps if it had n't happened so handily by chance , he would have engineered a meeting . |
| 15 | It is held together not by command and obedience but by influence and what may be called allegiance … |
| 16 | The fact that Leonard was influenced so deeply by Divan del Tamarir is very suggestive , for it is one of the types of poems known as gacela ( the other is casida ) , a short-rhymed fixed verse-form in Arabic poetry . |
| 17 | How could the government be better off by privatization ? |
| 18 | At first he was not immortal , but became so later by deification . |
| 19 | Students at the college have raised £6,000 for the appeal so far by parachute jumps and other fund-raising efforts . |
| 20 | I can well understand M M Mr Jewitt 's concerns , erm I think the simple fact of the matter is that not a great deal of Greater York new housing demand is likely to be generated in Hambledon district , whereas in Selby district a significant amount of er demand is likely to be generated , so really by way of conclusion I I would like through you to ask Mr Mr Jewitt if his opposition to the new settlement is as a matter of principle , or whether he 's really stating the case for Hambledon district , in other words , would he object to a new settlement in Selby district ? |
| 21 | A person who wields authority in such a society does not do so typically by virtue of traditional rules ( about kingship or hereditary authority , for example ) or because of that person 's supposed special charismatic qualities , but as a result of an impersonal rule which has been consciously created by a rational legislative process , Weber says that the appropriate administrative form for a system of legal authority — because it is the most efficient form — is bureaucracy ( Weber 1969 : chs 3 and 11 ) . |
| 22 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 23 | Pétain was extremely industrious , yet advancement went slowly for him ; unusually so even by peacetime standards ; five years a sous-lieutenant , seven years a lieutenant , and ten a captain . |
| 24 | Walker Hall was bought long ago by Daddy 's mother , Grandma Hauxwell , when she and Grandad were living at Hury in a place called Yew Tree . |
| 25 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 26 | He 's got plenty of turkeys in stock , as it turns out and you can order yours , already stuffed and dressed , perhaps even by telephone . |
| 27 | Ceauşescu 's imagination turned to a project which could not be reversed by his successors , perhaps even by time itself . |
| 28 | This was because , despite its deficiencies in terms of theory , it seemed to be borne out so well by observation . |
| 29 | It 's cheaper and much quicker by air ! |
| 30 | So it is quite true that it is the father that is principally in focus ; but that does not necessarily mean that " mother " is only there by accident . |