Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the reason we 've got this , is there are quite a few erm , Ottery boys who are members of this corps , and get taken down there by bus every Friday evening , and the Town Clerk erm , went to speak to them . |
| 2 | Other newspapers were closed down either by law or by manipulation . |
| 3 | The clothiers may well have been able to obtain their raw material relatively cheap , because there is some evidence of wool prices being forced down occasionally by over-production , when growers were unable to dispose of the whole annual clip ( 84 , p.312 ) . |
| 4 | G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it . |
| 5 | Having drunk 3 times , the driving limit ; she probably went out onto the window ledge and fell off entirely by accident . |
| 6 | HOPES of a rally were killed off yesterday by Government figures reflecting a stagnant economy . |
| 7 | She knew the words off almost by heart . |
| 8 | Snapped up instantaneously by sister channel MTV , the show has since left Americans drooling in anticipation of a forthcoming full-length series of gross acting characters undergoing all manner of grotesque facial distortions and transmutations . |
| 9 | The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves . |
| 10 | Ambivalence was a , a term coined in about nineteen O five , by the Swiss psychiatrist , , and it was taken up particularly by psychoanalysis , and as a psychoanalytic term , it means the co-existence of contradictory thoughts , feelings or emotions about the same thing . |
| 11 | The strict limitation of local authorities ' powers to specific parliamentary approval grew up almost by accident in the nineteenth century as a result of Railway Companies and other private organisations abusing their powers under private Acts of Parliament . |
| 12 | Mind you got short that was a killer up round by place . |
| 13 | These engaged on rails on special purpose rail wagons , so that the trailer could be shunted straight from the road onto the railway wagon , secured , and transported by rail to its destination and picked up again by road tractor with the minimum handling at its destination . |
| 14 | So , it has been held that decisions of the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which was set up neither by statute nor contract but simply by informal agreement , are subject to judicial review ; so are decisions of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Code of Practice Committee of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 15 | From Sens , on 13 April , he pressed on eastwards by night through the Forest of Othe : he had heard that Gerald and the rest were there , and hoped to fall on them unawares . |
| 16 | Erm , features er a female university lecturer who 's who says of the Victorian novel that it comes out right by marriage , er either marriage , legacy , or I ca n't remember what the other one was , there were three categories . |
| 17 | I went back home by taxi because it was too dark for the helicopter to fly , and I 'm afraid I do not travel as well by road . |
| 18 | Young patients can arrive for surgery in the morning … and be back home by mid-afternoon . |
| 19 | So we start to take an interest , and among other things we 're passed the names of a couple of Iranians who make frequent trips back home by train . |
| 20 | Module and file transfers between LIFESPAN and user accounts are carried out automatically by LIFESPAN in response to a user request . |
| 21 | Back here by lunchtime . " |
| 22 | And then I want you to meet , I want you to be back here by quarter to four . |
| 23 | We will be back here by nightfall . |
| 24 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 25 | Our own position will be to insist on the crucial distinction between the possibility of a monopolist producer qua producer ( which , in our terminology , is ruled out almost by definition ) and the possibility of a monopolist producer qua resource owner ( which is very real and significant ) . |
| 26 | One of its most important decisions for dog welfare — changes in litter registration to make puppy farming more difficult — I only found out about by chance ! |
| 27 | That someone else believes something , expects something , and so on , is something I find out about by observation . |
| 28 | That I believe something , expect something , or whatever , is not something I find out about by observation . |
| 29 | The terrace faced south and got the full sun , so it was too hot to be out there by day , but in the evenings and at night it was wonderful . |
| 30 | Letting herself out inconspicuously by way of the backstairs , Joan set out after dark for the Garden Tower , taking a circuitous route to avoid arousing suspicion . |