Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 2 | Another , named rather despairingly by the scientist who first examined it Hallucigenia , had seven pairs of limbs beneath and seven tentacles waving above , each of which ended , apparently , with a mouth . |
| 3 | In recent years , however , the impassioned and intelligent dinner conversations held over hearty cassoulets , with rapidly emptying bottles of Beauj' or Burgundy , have become the subject of satire ( primarily and most successfully by The Guardian 's cartoonist Posy Simmonds ) . |
| 4 | This indifference was naturally felt most acutely by the countries like Kenya in the second group of borrowers and by countries like Brazil in the fourth . |
| 5 | At the upper end of the social and economic scale the mood of protest has been captured most effectively by the small but respected Republican Party . |
| 6 | Attitudes to social problems and public policy and electoral strategies are closely intertwined , most effectively by the Thatcherites in their overall strategy of social engineering . |
| 7 | The Sunday Telegraph ( February 1961 ) cashed in on the rapidly expanding quality Sunday market , built up most effectively by the Sunday Times ( whose colour magazine started in the same year ) . |
| 8 | It 's interesting that sexuality has been problematised in the seventies and eighties and nineties most effectively by the scholarship emerging from the Women 's Movement erm who 've said that y'know perhaps things are n't quite as equitable as these people have supposed , er perhaps sexuality can be abusive , look at all these instances of rape , of child sex abuse etcetera , sexual harassment and all these kinds of things . |
| 9 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 10 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 11 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 12 | The party was established by the 1900 delegate conference dominated numerically by trade unionists , but the initiative and motive force behind the resolution was a socialist one accepted only hesitatingly by the tradition of radical Liberalism belatedly recognising the need for state action to preserve and promote trade union advances . |
| 13 | Specific changes were determined primarily by the head and senior management team and only latterly by the rest of the staff . |
| 14 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It might be all right by the jetty , ’ she argued , running down the path . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be all right by the time we come to Luxembourg next week , ’ she said confidently to Franz and Willi at supper that night . |
| 17 | In an affected small bowel you will see the grey background with these tiny little curved rods present the whole area of the er , the villi is covered by the organisms which are er stuck down effectively by the processes which you ca , you ca n't really see them in the transmission micrograph , but they are attached to specific receptors on the surface of the entrocite membrane . |
| 18 | For there is a dilemma along the way — expressed so poignantly by the very young pregnant schoolgirl who , in response to the question : " But did n't they tell you about sex in school ? " replied " Oh yes , they told me what to do — but nobody said how much I 'd want to do it ! " |
| 19 | He set the tray down gently by the bedside , and picked up what was left of the mummy . |
| 20 | The curia was worried by talk of modernization — especially perhaps by the thought that 2,500 bishops in Rome might make them change their procedures in unwelcome ways . |
| 21 | T'owd dear was n't up to doing much better by the chocolates , having problems wi' sugar in her water , so I did well out o' that . |
| 22 | It is stopped from passing completely into solution , partly by the large size of the cellulose molecules and , more , by the fact that , in natural cellulose , the whole system is tied together mechanically by the presence of the crystals , which are water-proof and form a good proportion of the whole mass . |
| 23 | Matched only perhaps by the uninterestingness of the minds and souls of such painters . |
| 24 | His Inspector Purbright is a very ordinary man , distinguished only perhaps by the mildly quizzical view of life and humanity he possesses . |
| 25 | When the movement was defeated , these opening doors of dialogue were closed again , obviously so by the conservative regime in Beijing , less obviously but more damagingly from outside . |
| 26 | But if the victuallers were to have their stores ready only by the end of August , and the king was intending , as it seemed , to continue his journey eastwards across the centre of England , equidistant from the possible battle-grounds of the Welsh and Scottish borders and the threatened south coast , and ready to move in whichever direction should first require his presence , then there was no longer anything to be gained by loitering here , and he had better be making his way over to Owen with what information he had , and whatever intelligent inferences could be drawn from that information . |
| 27 | Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction . |
| 28 | But , while the legislators ponder on ‘ the rights and freedoms of the individual ’ ( is that the right to throw your Alsatian out onto the motorway because he 's grown too big to handle ? ) we are all left to contemplate statistics like 1000 stray dogs put down daily by the RSPCA , or 58,000 road accidents ( many involving death and serious injury ) caused by stray dogs . |
| 29 | On the whole , the evidence and advice suggests that a combative approach is best , making clear that the plaintiff is prepared to litigate , and doing so swiftly by the issue of proceedings . |
| 30 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |