Example sentences of "[pron] and by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 2 | The original edition in 1960 , ended the story in 1880 ; the new edition , revised and rewritten by Dr Leslie Hunt , brings the story up to date in all senses , relying on original historical research by Hunt himself and by many contributors to Johnson Matthey 's journal Platinum Metals Review ( founded 1957 ) , and on Hunt 's knowledge of modern industry It is lavishly illustrated , partly in colour . |
| 3 | more she by him and by those years of waiting |
| 4 | Gradually , though , a baby 's brain learns to cope with the information the eyes are feeding it and by six months , most babies have more or less normal sight . |
| 5 | It is often claimed , both by the Victorians themselves and by subsequent historians of design , that the impetus towards the formulation of new standards of taste in the latter half of the century was provided by the negative example of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 6 | He is unlikely to be startled by the kind of evidence or hypothesis presented by us and by other writers . |