Example sentences of "[adv] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche stood by the door for a moment with her hand on the switch , the back of her head lit fiercely by the lights in the corridor , her face hidden in soft obscurity . |
| 2 | The existence of a meaning distinction is backed up furthermore by the opinions of a certain number of grammarians who all have more or less similar impressions as to the nature of the semantic contrast here . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 5 | The exhibition in May , ‘ Ars Pro Domo ’ ( an exhibition of 1980s art from private collections in Cologne ) will be paid for entirely by the Friends of the Ludwig . |
| 6 | Moreover , although there was a continuing flow of military operations in the post-war years , their scale and frequency also declined steadily , all but fading out entirely by the mid-1970s . |
| 7 | Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics . |
| 8 | Moreover , he urges his readers not to join sects that make their adherents abandon their families , give up their money and worldly interests , and lead restricted lives that are ordered entirely by the rulers of the sect . |
| 9 | The TUC ignored this assumption when it denied that the marriage bar was a sex issue , insisting that it was an employment question , caused entirely by the pressures arising from male unemployment . |
| 10 | Which type of support a young person receives should be determined entirely by the needs of that person rather than by slotting her or him into inflexible institutional alternatives . |
| 11 | A porter stood idly by the lifts . |
| 12 | Still , there was a good deal of stealthy coming and going within the building — this being ignored apparently by the men on duty in the guardchamber . |
| 13 | Some of the chemicals were destroyed , apparently by the bacteria . |
| 14 | A grim catalogue of up to 80 defects in 23 homes has been put together by the residents in Chessel Close at Bradley Stoke , near Bristol . |
| 15 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 16 | People listened entranced , laced together by the tendrils of the melody . |
| 17 | They appear well in advance of publication , and usually contain a good deal of information about individual titles — though here again the information is put together by the producers , who are naturally keen to sell their product . |
| 18 | Quite the opposite , it was an association of two men wholly different in character and outlook , brought together by the circumstances of Anselm 's exile . |
| 19 | To the extent that a scientific speciality or discipline is bound together by the rules of an existing ‘ paradigm ’ defining the rules for ‘ puzzle-solving ’ with an existing ‘ normal science ’ , it has been argued that major scientific change often comes from outside the existing specialist group — not untypically through the ‘ migration ’ into the group of innovative outsiders . |
| 20 | But what of Serbia , which has the power to wreck any deal cobbled together by the others ? |
| 21 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |
| 22 | A leafy bushy plant , much branched , Culpeper in the 17th century wrote of it as the " herb which all authors are together by the ears about , and rail at one another like lawyers " . |
| 23 | ‘ We were debris thrown together by the vagaries of the music industry , ’ sighs Fred . |
| 24 | THE expression is solemn , the lines of age etched deeper by the traumas which have torn her family apart over the past year . |
| 25 | These people are basically independent to the company but they are appointed basically by the directors of the company in a capacity and basically er another safeguard or a check on the actual management what you would call management er governance of the company . |
| 26 | Eileen , who 'd been beaten into writing legibly by the nuns , felt as if the writer did n't care whether her letters were decipherable or not . |
| 27 | It 's still a child 's guide to sexism : children may be unconvinced , especially by the boys ' latent gallantry ( ‘ They 'd kick her , I mean him ’ ) , and adults may find the story a touch contrived , but it 's a good read . |
| 28 | Mr White notes that there is ‘ quite a strong lobby [ on this question ] , especially by the Americans . |
| 29 | Judged by the highest standards there may have some stiffness in the rhythm , some slack articulation of the words and some raucous tone from certain voices , yet , urged on by the dynamic playing of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra , and especially by the cohorts of percussion , the singing was exhilarating . |
| 30 | The monitoring and criticism of police conduct on picket lines by such independent organisations as the National Council for Civil Liberties has served to highlight , and therefore moderate , misbehaviour , especially by the police . |