Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are all techniques by which families can be helped to understand the way they interact together by practical , visual means . |
| 2 | replace either by elegant repetition |
| 3 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 4 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 5 | PUT DOWN BY ONE LINE |
| 6 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 7 | Mr Mukhametshin has been repeatedly let down by Russian suppliers , which in turn forces Anis to let down foreign customers . |
| 8 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 9 | Peppered with infinitely quotable one-liners and featuring some seriously over-the-top set-pieces , Lehmann 's film is a relentless attack on the vacuous youth of America , let down by some lame moralising in the last 30 seconds . |
| 10 | If all the relevant facts are assembled and put together by competent people , and logical analysis is made , then that will provide the answer . ’ |
| 11 | But Prudential finance director Michael Lawrence says that the bids put in by all the firms on the tender shortlist were ‘ virtually all of an allness on fees ’ . |
| 12 | In high season pedaloes , canoes and wind-surf boards can be hired in the village which is a 25 minute walk away by busy road or along the beach . |
| 13 | The same procedure was adopted as for the immediate recall part of the experiment but words were used from set B. However , before the subject was allowed to recall the words an arbitrary three digit number , provided below the word list for each trial , was given to the subject and the subject asked to repeat the number and count backwards by threes as fast as they could for thirty seconds . |
| 14 | Boulton and Swartzentruber urge the acceptance of a common explanation for both phenomena , arguing that contextual cues and explicit occasion setters act not by direct association with other events but by modulating the influence of CS-US associations . |
| 15 | The interpretation of the courts advanced in the second chapter of this book accepts many of the arguments put forth by these scholars , but provides a fuller model of judicial behaviour which is historical as well as functional . |
| 16 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 18 | Bournville and New Earswick were followed by other estates put up by Industrial Housing Associations such as Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight , and many more recent ones , to the present number of about fifty-four . |
| 19 | Breed exclusively by fresh and brackish water and marshes ; often in coastal waters on migration . |
| 20 | The non-vascular cryptogams have wide climatic tolerance , and spread readily by wind-distributed spores or vegetative propagules . |
| 21 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 22 | Under the present compensation er proposals put forward by Good , it would all be provided by the pension funds themselves and there 's no pain for the fund managers er no requirement really for them to blow the whistle . |
| 23 | Does he further agree that the report condemns the trendy , discredited methods put forward by Labour and calls for a return to traditional teaching ? |
| 24 | Mr Green added : ‘ It is clear that the middle ground in Derry favours the ideas put forward by Labour . |
| 25 | In spite of the wording of the motion put forward by Labour members , I would point out that , under Conservative control , has spent three hundred and fifty eight pound per head compared with the Metropolitan District who average three hundred and seventeen . |
| 26 | For both regional and world-wide studies , archaeological interpretation is based more on an assessment of evidence and arguments put forward by other archaeologists than an assessment of primary data . |
| 27 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 28 | Erm Chairman just amends the er motions put forward by essential to accept . |
| 29 | Reynolds ' weighty irony was wielded with more address than arguments put forward by later traditionalists . |
| 30 | This greatly strengthens the Prime Minister 's ability to argue against proposals put forward by departmental ministers who are forced to rely almost entirely on the briefs prepared for them by their departmental civil servants . |