Example sentences of "[adv] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The stove was the delight of her heart and had been built especially by a friend of her late husband 's to fit neatly into the end of her tiny home . |
| 32 | Any response from me would have resulted in my being kissed on the forehead and my hair tousled ( and no boy is happy in being so treated , especially by a brother ) . |
| 33 | The F attachment can be switched in instantaneously by a valve operated by the left thumb . |
| 34 | His annual income when he died was £496 , which may seem a fortune compared with the £20 earned annually by a farm labourer but was modest compared with that of most country gentlemen . |
| 35 | The groove the climb follows is identified from below by a series of intimidating bulges and a rather spindly tree that sticks out horizontally from the cliff about 60′ up . |
| 36 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 37 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 38 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 39 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 40 | A group of sports fans are claiming they were overcharged and let down by a tour operator who sold them tickets to the Olympic Games . |
| 41 | The tots were struck down by a superbug in the intensive care unit at the London hospital . |
| 42 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 43 | The elimination for cooling requirements and the use of integrated circuit fabrication techniques to produce the image 's solid state detectors are expected to bring the costs of future models down by a factor of ten or more to under £1000 . |
| 44 | The May 1991 and all subsequent G201 manufacturing campaigns brought dramatic reductions in black specks , down by a factor of ten . |
| 45 | I mean if you think that an atom is , as we said , typically ten to the minus eight of a centimetre , then a nucleus is typically ten to the minus twelve of a centimetre , so that 's four orders of magnitude down , so the nucleus itself , if you scaled the whole thing down by a factor of ten to the four , the neucleus itself again is made up of a fair amount of free space and loss of particles inside it . |
| 46 | It was laid down by a judgement of the King 's Court in 1205 that ‘ No one ought or is able to divide up or in any way to alienate a serjeanty ’ . |
| 47 | Greeks found these attitudes hard to understand ; accustomed to connect one-man rule with harsh policing , they imagined that the Persian Empire must have been held down by a system of institutionalized controls — garrisons and garrison-commanders — and touring royal armies and officials , King 's Eyes and King 's Ears , and so on ( Xen . |
| 48 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 49 | In the context of the present case , however , it was not necessary to determine whether there were any conceivable circumstances in which Community law might affect rules in that sphere laid down by a member state . |
| 50 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 51 | The viewing figure must go down by a half now . |
| 52 | DAVID Bell , 30 , of Arncliffe Hall , Ingleby Cross , near Stokesley , is fighting for his life with serious head injuries after being knocked down by a pick-up truck . |
| 53 | A wreath of artificial poppies has been held down by a brick . |
| 54 | That August the three Maguire children died when they and their mother , Anne , were run down by a terrorist who had been shot by soldiers during an incident . |
| 55 | ‘ Was it taken down by a policeman ? ’ |
| 56 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 57 | A TOP sportswoman was awarded £230,981 damages in the High Court yesterday after being knocked down by a motorcycle . |
| 58 | Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home . |
| 59 | Stephen Wylie , a twenty-four year old businessman from Swindon was travelling on a minor road towards the village of Clanfield when he was flagged down by a man at the side of the road . |
| 60 | Emer Tracy ( 14 ) died after she was knocked down by a lorry as she crossed Dungannon Road , Portadown . |