Example sentences of "[adv] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 2 | In addition , tonics from plants can be used preventively by healthy people , as our grandparents may attest . |
| 3 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 4 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 5 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 6 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 7 | I should know better by this time , because not only do these things then happen , but my machines do something even worse . |
| 8 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 9 | No Norman king in England recruited his knights entirely by feudal service ; his army always had a substantial mercenary element in it . |
| 10 | ‘ I agree , yet somehow I find it difficult to accept that you live entirely by that principle . ’ |
| 11 | Today provides a more immediate issue- the final opportunity for cricket to show it 's not administered entirely by blithering idiots . |
| 12 | Built and financed entirely by Canadian millionaire art dealer Elie Borowski , the Bible Lands Museum houses his personal collection of 3,000 ancient artefacts largely covering the neighbouring cultures of Syria , Iran , Mesopotamia , Anatolia and Egypt rather than Israel per se . |
| 13 | But he simply does not come to grips with the genuine political and cultural difficulty of establishing effective institutions for research in applied sciences , such as agriculture and medicine , which can not be seeded entirely by individual commitment and talent . |
| 14 | But such results could also be accommodated entirely by Fisherian models , in which initially arbitrary male traits become increasingly elaborate and costly as a result of coevolution with female preferences for them . |
| 15 | One computer teacher has severe MS , the sports psychology instructor is a centre user , and several sub-groups , including the women and disability forum , are run entirely by disabled people . |
| 16 | Communication between the designer and the producer used to be done almost entirely by traditional engineering drawings but there is now a tendency to use sketches , schematic drawings , photographs and models including computer-based models , for example complicated shapes in three dimensions are difficult to represent as rectangular projections and are not easily interpreted . |
| 17 | The choice between big city life and small town values is made a great deal easier by the fact that this idyllic southern country village is like Twin Peaks without the psychopaths , peopled entirely by lovable eccentrics and glamorous models . |
| 18 | Some countries have a state archaeological service run entirely by professional field archaeologists , so that amateurs , and sometimes even archaeological students are not allowed to participate in fieldwork or excavation . |
| 19 | The loss of government subsidies will be covered almost entirely by dearer fares for passengers . |
| 20 | He frequently had be placed on a respirator that combined with the two tubes that linked his heart to its 170 kg air compressor , gave the impression of a man supported entirely by mechanical means . |
| 21 | Glavkosmos hoped that the predicted commercial success of Juno ( the first to be supported entirely by commercial funding ) from the sale of broadcasting rights , corporate sponsorship of the scientific experiments to be performed on board the Mir space station and the fees from " space advertising " , would encourage more Western companies , especially in the United States , to fund future crewed missions . |
| 22 | If the material was supplied almost entirely by longshore drift , the profile outside the bar should be continuous with that inside the bar ( Fig. 8.19A ) : if the bar was formed by erosion of the sea floor , the profile outside the bar , if projected back towards the land , should not reach seal level at the coast but some way inland ( Fig. 8.19B ) . |
| 23 | The earlier stages can be discovered almost entirely by theoretical analysis , with experiments serving largely to confirm the predictions ( and incidentally to provide illustrative material such as that being used here ) . |
| 24 | Status : semi-autonomous UN agency , financed entirely by voluntary contributions . |
| 25 | Status : semi-autonomous UN agency , financed entirely by voluntary contributions . |
| 26 | The service was funded entirely by public donations . |
| 27 | Obscene letters and telephoning , in which an inadequate individual gains satisfaction mainly or entirely by these activities . |
| 28 | The crack 1er and 2ème Régiments Étrangers de Parachutistes were staffed and run almost entirely by old hands from Indo-China who felt immensely bitter at the French government 's handling of the war . |
| 29 | It is plain that such essentially lightweight structures , the form of which is determined almost entirely by operational considerations , may offer few opportunities for conversion into comfortable living accommodation . |
| 30 | In the meantime , since companies , banks and life insurers own about two-thirds of the Tokyo stockmarket , share prices are supported almost entirely by fickle foreigners , margin investors and , of course , the government . |