Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The influence of the semiotic model within psychoanalysis is important but , as we shall see , it is often incorporated into sexual difference theory in a form which manages to exclude what the model is especially sensitive to , namely the way oppositions which constitute meaning are fundamentally binary , yet can not ultimately be contained in and by binary closure even as , in practice , the binary remains a fundamental principle of social and psychic ordering .
2 This implies a certain kind of model of racism and its mode of representation , one which stresses the element of negotiation or contradiction in the way people are positioned in and by racist discourses .
3 The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire .
4 Of course , your 6-inch torrent of water may cause a lot of comment as it passes through or by neighbouring lots …
5 The case did n't come up and by two in the afternoon , they said it would probably be tomorrow .
6 As the institution developed , an industrial workshop grew up and by 1880 , sales had reached the then astounding figure of £18.275 .
7 Nurses had brought him up and by seven he was away at private school in England .
8 After several years of sheer hard work and dedicated self-sacrifice , which involved giving up her fine mansion and living in cheap lodgings , she finally turned the bankrupt enterprise around and by 1904 was able to sell her shares in Dillwyn & Co. at a very substantial profit to the German industrial giant , Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt , which was then striving to create an international monopoly of zinc manufacture .
9 A similar thing occurs in the next quatrain where the hard plosive ‘ b ’ of ‘ by and by black night ’ is eased with the soothing ‘ s ’ of ‘ second self that seals ’ .
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