Example sentences of "[adv] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not something to be bestowed whimsically by a benevolent manager ( Earley and Fletcher-Campbell 1989:203 ) . |
| 2 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 3 | This was caused apparently by a private . |
| 4 | At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases . |
| 5 | Jerome Leyraud , a French worker for the relief agency Médécins du Monde , was kidnapped in West Beirut only hours after McCarthy 's release on Aug. 8 , apparently by a radical Shia faction opposed to the release of hostages , but he was released unharmed at dawn on Aug. 11 . |
| 6 | The skull smashed , apparently by a heavy mallet which Lorrimer had been examining . |
| 7 | The animals were part of a flock of 70 sheep which were driven into the brook , apparently by a stray dog . |
| 8 | It was like a machine where every single bit was perfectly made , but had been put together by a one-handed nome in the dark . |
| 9 | Speakers of a common language , by contrast , are bound together by a moral practice . |
| 10 | Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement , responsibility and loyalty . |
| 11 | Ramshackle , held together by a thousand personalised special arrangements , a state existed , still , in the ninth century , capable of being operated by a skilful king . |
| 12 | The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie . |
| 13 | The centrepiece of Joseph Ettedgui 's latest emporium is this complex glass stair held together by a delicate spider 's web of steel rods , split pins and steel rings . |
| 14 | The two sentences are bound together by a cohesive tie . |
| 15 | It consists of a number of locally-based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
| 16 | It consists of a number of locally based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
| 17 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
| 18 | In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible . |
| 19 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 20 | The loading bay had old roll-across galvanised doors , twisted and battered out of shape and just about held together by a new-looking chain sheathed in blue plastic . |
| 21 | In striking contrast , modern industrial societies were characterized by heterogeneity , and were held together by a superior bonding principle which , following the centuries ' old analogy between the body-politic and the human organism , Durkheim chose to call ‘ organic solidarity ’ . |
| 22 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 23 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |
| 24 | Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter 's pound . |
| 25 | Babies ' christening robes were particularly affecting ; they might have been blown together by a soft breeze , so invisible was their stitching . |
| 26 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
| 27 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |
| 28 | The company is viewed as an organic body , bound together by a common purpose under the direction of its expert managers . |
| 29 | A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style . |
| 30 | But this was not a justification for the dissolution of an association of this kind ; the different republics and nationalities were bound together by a common history , by ties of marriage and settlement , and by the trade that they conducted with each other . |