Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent of the revolution is most strikingly illustrated by comparison of Giovanni Gabrieli 's two settings of ‘ O Jesu mi dulcissime ’ : in his First Book of Sacrae Symphoniae ( 1597 ) and in his Second Book ( posthumously published in 1615 ) . |
| 2 | This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation . |
| 3 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 4 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 5 | The impetus of the scientific imperative was followed by technical mistakes , followed by a disastrous failure , followed by official reassurances — and only eventually concluded by official backtracking in the face of outside scepticism . |
| 6 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 7 | And now she was frightened of him — Dr Neil , who was so kind and good , and had already been so badly damaged by life … |
| 8 | Consequently an MdB is much less harassed by routine constituency casework than is a conscientious MP . |
| 9 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 10 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 11 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |
| 12 | In his old age , memory perhaps somewhat affected by imagination , he wrote his recollections for the ‘ Cornish Times ’ of 1901 . |
| 13 | This is apparently less affected by phosphate than Mohr 's method . |
| 14 | Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London . |
| 15 | In passing judgement on these crucial issues the historian is so easily blinkered by hindsight . |
| 16 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 17 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 18 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |
| 19 | In the South , where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions , the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance . |
| 20 | In a society so deeply divided by class ( and gender and race ) inequalities , and increasingly dominated by the privatised technological culture of late capitalism , the social purpose orientation alone is now inadequate , however admirable it may have been in the past . |
| 21 | This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society . |
| 22 | Engels 's argument is clear : the Germans were able to vanquish the Romans because their society was not so internally corrupted by class . |
| 23 | There then followed a curious little pantomime , apparently also dictated by tradition . |
| 24 | From the Villa Elena you can see no fewer than eleven extinct volcanos and a distant view of the sea , only slightly marred by smoke belching from an industrial plant two miles away . |
| 25 | As expected , increased dietary calcium increased the total calcium in faeces and this was only slightly stimulated by phosphate supplementation of the high calcium diet ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 26 | It should be self-evident , therefore , that where individual behaviour can be so extensively influenced by conformity to the standards of the social groups that make up our community and its social strata , then there will be major implications for the marketer . |
| 27 | Of course , in addition to the bony structures in the limb — which are first laid down as cartilage and only later replaced by bone — there are muscles and tendons whose pattern is more complex . |
| 28 | Kelsen insists that ‘ every law applying act is only partly determined by law ’ and presents actual legal systems as a synthesis of formal , static deduction and informal , dynamic determination . |
| 29 | Aggression is only partly caused by leadership style . |
| 30 | In another area , for example in the interior regions of Italy , where land is in short supply and where production patterns are not so severely restricted by climate and latitude , a more diversified farming pattern may be possible . |