Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 2 | In an affected small bowel you will see the grey background with these tiny little curved rods present the whole area of the er , the villi is covered by the organisms which are er stuck down effectively by the processes which you ca , you ca n't really see them in the transmission micrograph , but they are attached to specific receptors on the surface of the entrocite membrane . |
| 3 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 4 | On the other hand , public relations is often looked down on by the media as messengers with stories that hold no interest and which will be presented in the wrong way at the wrong time and in the wrong situation . |
| 5 | He set the tray down gently by the bedside , and picked up what was left of the mummy . |
| 6 | And I think if we go and have something in down by the sea and see what we 've got there I think it 'll be alright . |
| 7 | Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction . |
| 8 | But , while the legislators ponder on ‘ the rights and freedoms of the individual ’ ( is that the right to throw your Alsatian out onto the motorway because he 's grown too big to handle ? ) we are all left to contemplate statistics like 1000 stray dogs put down daily by the RSPCA , or 58,000 road accidents ( many involving death and serious injury ) caused by stray dogs . |
| 9 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 10 | The place is electric with drama , with something weighty , weighted down more by the pressure of the storm . |
| 11 | It 's an interesting mixture of management and overhead-view arcade action , and let down slightly by the latter . |
| 12 | Not down here by the river as we thought , after all . |
| 13 | I 've a good yard down here by the house roomy with enough buildings for all I need . |
| 14 | Policeman having a little word with a sa , motorcyclist down here by the looks of it ! |
| 15 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 16 | At the moment I 'm happy with the service down there by the way . |
| 17 | Can you see Traitor 's Gate down there by the side of the river ? |
| 18 | Well we are this end , but I mean they have a bit of trouble down down there by the club |
| 19 | he 's , he 's awful but , er never made more bother with , some kids down there by the erm |
| 20 | They sat down again by the fire , and soon Mr Bumble 's arm returned to its previous position round Mrs Corney 's waist . |
| 21 | After he had gone , she chatted with several of the other guests , learned more local history from Margrida , got pinned down again by the Dalgety executive . |
| 22 | When we get home Penny goes to check on Heather and if she 's asleep , lies down quietly by the cot and waits for her to wake up so she can come and tell us . |
| 23 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 24 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 25 | Apart from an air in E♭ major exclaiming against the tyranny of love in Les caprices de l'Amour ( book 3 ) a ‘ horrible , frightful ’ key for Charpentier , and passed over altogether by the other theorists including Rameau the choice of keys in these collections bears a close family likeness to those of book 1 . |
| 26 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 27 | Control can be exercised over both by the flow adjuster screw . |
| 28 | The significance of the election of the collector of supply for parliamentary politics is emphasised over and over again by the politicians in their correspondence . |
| 29 | And Grainne was struck all over again by the complete lack of subservience of these creatures . |
| 30 | The names of many people are recorded on documents signed at Halling and these names are repeated over and over again by the historians . |