Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research is paraded as strongly by many journalists and novelists as it is by sociologists . |
| 2 | I was less moved than ever by M. Chaillot 's little lecture on his responsi-bilities to the public purse . |
| 3 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 4 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 5 | On May 14 the People 's Assembly elected the members of the Supreme Court , to be chaired as before by Kleanthi Koci . |
| 6 | I do not know how this can be avoided except perhaps by getting more things settled at the official level , and when they can not be settled there having the issues presented plainly to ministers . |
| 7 | This could be accomplished as well by a civil injunction freezing the moneys potentially subject to a civil judgment as it is by the elaborate statutory forfeiture mechanism . |
| 8 | A variety of more objective measures have traditionally been used as well by teachers . |
| 9 | Many will be the writers who composed on early Amstrads , and how will we ensure that their working discs , successors to the invaluable rough note-books and diaries of writers like W H Auden and Graham Greene or campaigners like Marie Stopes , which we already possess , can be used as readily by future generations of scholars ? |
| 10 | The majority of the Franks are unlikely to have been affected as yet by Christianity . |
| 11 | An arms advantage for oneself is now the option that is next most preferred ( 3 ) , followed as before by the arms race ( 2 ) , and then by an ‘ arms lag ’ ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | Struck as always by its resemblance to human brain . |
| 13 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 15 | Are you acquainted if only by repute with a Mr Landor who is a poet ? |
| 16 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |