Example sentences of "[adv] by [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such lapses were seized upon eagerly by Lewis 's jealous academic colleagues . |
| 2 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 3 | Sandy drew breath to scream but she was stopped halfway by Alina 's clamped-down hand , which filled her mouth and lungs with the rank taste of stagnant water . |
| 4 | Female exclusion from science and technology , even if it is apparently by girls ' own choice , also means that as citizens their ability to understand and control their environment is limited . |
| 5 | Films In Review insisted it was ‘ a disgusting example of the nastiness that has recently become part of the nihilism promoted by those films which are put together by Britain 's modmonsters ( infantile leftists , smarty-pant degenerates , jungle-&-junkie-headed rock-n-folkas , addled well-meaners et al ) ’ . |
| 6 | We think there is very strong ground for saying that it does , and that by recognising both potential criminal origins in section 211 and then by channelling all judicial review applications together by section 21K under Order 53 , the legislature was providing for all . |
| 7 | Simpson had the backing of an unlikely alliance of radicals and moderates , driven together by Crofton 's rigid principles and choleric nature , and Cromwell and the council upheld his claims . |
| 8 | But she was reassured when Ianthe came into the room , and her observant eye took in every detail of Ianthe 's ladylike but hardly fashionable appearance-the hair smooth and neat , gathered into a little roll at the back — the dress of a rather uninteresting shade of blue , with the skirt a good two inches too long by Penelope 's standards — the stockings with seams , and the shoes with sensible heels and rounded toes . |
| 9 | He was smitten not especially by Sandra 's looks , but by her whole demeanour , and those who were around at the time must have thought he had understated his feelings when he said later , ‘ It was a no-big-deal act for me . |
| 10 | Webb-Bowen had about him that healthy gloss which derives from subscriptions paid annually by Coutt 's banker 's order to either BUPA or PPP . |
| 11 | Unschooled Wolof children know when to make certain things explicit in their own culture ; it would appear that they are not triggered off to do so by Greenfield 's questions . |
| 12 | Maxim grinned , surprised less by George 's attitude than by his knowledge of such parts of London . |
| 13 | I asked , impressed anew by Selina 's witch radar . |
| 14 | ‘ What he is is a rude and arrogant bully , ’ Rory shot back , irritated anew by Candy 's persistence in probing for details about Adam Burns . |
| 15 | They caught a glimpse of his robe in the candlelight , but only a glimpse because then he moved into the shadows and it was only by Mordecai 's gestures that they could tell where he was . |
| 16 | The pace of her expansion was matched only by Russia 's , but Russia 's was on a much smaller scale and depended on foreign capital , some of it German . |
| 17 | He concluded that ‘ a mandate is a mandate and that she will derive real strength from having overcome so tough a challenge ’ , a stirring endorsement , weakened only by Thatcher 's withdrawal from the contest at about the time the column reached the chattering classes ' breakfast tables . |
| 18 | This distinction had been blurred not only by officers ' participation in the committees but by the Pflimlin government 's delegation of supreme civilian authority to the Commander-in-Chief , General Salan . |
| 19 | Jane had been hurt by her parents ' occasional references to her in newspaper interviews as being a ‘ difficult child ’ or other remarks prompted only by Laura 's nagging worries about what the future might hold for Jane . |
| 20 | This was the beginning of a close association and collaboration lasting for twenty-five years , interrupted only by Bulleid 's war service from 1915 to 1919 , when he was involved mainly in the operation of military railways serving ammunition dumps near the front in France . |
| 21 | It seemed a long night , interrupted only by Mason 's groans , and by occasional animal-like noises from the secret room . |
| 22 | After scrambling along a series of dark and dusty corridors which were lit only by Apanage 's lantern and the feeble light of the moon fighting its way through filthy skylights , Cleo and Dauntless were eventually led into a spacious attic . |
| 23 | The maintenance of this posture was ensured by the generally rightward shift of French cabinets between 1936 and 1939 , interrupted only by Blum 's shortlived second government in early 1938 when aid was briefly resumed . |
| 24 | Much of this success was rendered possible only by Surrey 's strength in reserve . |
| 25 | Tony and Odd-Knut stopped work too , and there was a silent time , broken only by Tony 's mad rush to find his camera and tripod . |
| 26 | Their ritualled life is interrupted only by Saxon 's unclear memories of what used to be , along with the movement of the grotesque Brogan in the ‘ upper world ’ . |
| 27 | The second half was brightened only by Bowman 's winner in the 53rd minute . |
| 28 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ . |
| 30 | A concordat between Anderson and the horror genre was ruled out not only by Andemson 's fastidiousness , but by the inability of Hammer Studios to provide an environment in which filmmakers with a strongly defined sense of individuality could flourish . |