Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A general textbook on the law of tort is no place for an extended discussion of the specialised law relating to trade disputes but those disputes have provided most of the ‘ raw material ’ for the development of the common law and their legal regulation has been so substantially modified by statute since 1906 that some account of the legislative intervention is necessary . |
| 32 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 33 | Similarly in Britain , the early literature consisted of learned , academic books , which later gave way to the many systematic publications of the Geological Survey , only now superseded by research published in commercial scientific journals . |
| 34 | Similarly in Britain , the early literature consisted of learned , academic books , which later gave way to the many systematic publications of the Geological Survey , only now superseded by research published in commercial scientific journals . |
| 35 | In all honesty , the history of commercial rose-growing is a trail of trumpet-blowing and publicity , so often followed by silence as the subjects ran out of steam and fell by the wayside . |
| 36 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 37 | They are then disagreeably surprised when the resentments and even despair which are so often concealed by silence break out in angry and violent rebellion . |
| 38 | It was so well hidden by forest , however , that they were almost upon it before she really had the chance to look . |
| 39 | I still occasional refer to these especially when I need a ‘ refresher ’ so well expressed by Veal in his unique manner . |
| 40 | Ideally , we should build some flexibility into the Library 's financial management systems to cope with changes , but at present we are so tightly constrained by cost factors that we have no room for manoeuvre . |
| 41 | The quarter or more of the world 's population who live around the rim of the Pacific are too diverse to be cutely grouped as the ‘ Pacific man ’ in the ‘ Pacific century ’ , so readily defined by fund managers and futurologists . |
| 42 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 43 | And indeed , even discounting the role so evidently played by nostalgia in Hume 's thinking , it was true that the administration of India , beginning with the viceroyalty of John Lawrence , had become steadily more centralized and more detached . |
| 44 | Our Western culture , so heavily influenced by Enlightenment thinking , values and attitudes , has banished any vocabulary which enables us seriously to reckon with the ‘ dark powers ’ . |
| 45 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 46 | Eyes : Rolling eyes that show the whites are often thought to be a sign of viciousness — in fact , they are an indication of wariness and suspicion , which is only occasionally accompanied by aggression . |
| 47 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 48 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 49 | Petrological observations show excess feldspar in many basaltic lavas which is most easily explained by crystal settling . |
| 50 | A number of parties took place during the race week , including a very good champagne reception most generously given by Mot et Chandon at the very comfortable four star Hôtel le Manège , which reopened in December under a dynamic new young management . |
| 51 | Now I am in heaven — no , not dead just surrounded by metal detectors ! |
| 52 | Despite its easy flow I was nevertheless not wholly convinced by No. 4 . |
| 53 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 54 | Although the most commonly used traffic-calming measures , road humps , are governed by statute and are subject to clear regulations , other techniques such as chicanes , road narowing , different road surfaces , shared road surfaces , rumble strips and gateways are not properly covered by legislation . |
| 55 | Further , KPMG alleges in the letter that the control mechanisms that were in place were not properly operated by management , and KPMG 's recommendations for them to be strengthened were accepted but not fully implemented . |
| 56 | This did not evoke much response from the audience , because The Times was not widely read by university students . |
| 57 | But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress . |
| 58 | But this overlooks two points : first , that the transsexual is living proof that , in actuality , the psyche may operate in defiance of biological truths regardless of what the law says it should do ; second , that the psyche is not necessarily formed by choice , but may instead be determined for the individual by forces operating on him during its development . |
| 59 | The agenda of interstate relations is increasingly complex and is not necessarily dominated by security issues . |
| 60 | A " class " for this purpose is not necessarily identified by reference to the category of shares which members hold . |