Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 2 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 3 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 4 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 5 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 6 | Turning slightly , he stabbed the gun barrel with its fat , cylindrical silencer into the crack between Tessa 's thighs ; she could have only moved away by uncrossing her legs . |
| 7 | Still worse , her mind was recurrently invaded now by carnal fantascies . |
| 8 | And these tiny , mullioned windows in their deep embrasures which let in the light so strangely , shadows like dark brown varnish suddenly filtered through by thin beams of light which might be any colour from silver to amber . |
| 9 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 10 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |
| 11 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 12 | The carrots , or tins , at the end of the walk were 200 tins of Pedigree Pal Partners dog food which were eagerly taken home by hungry dogs . |
| 13 | Another American artist , Rona Pondick , creates disturbing assemblages out of a mixture of materials ( for instance : a wooden beam , a row of white shoes and a cushion , all held together by frayed nylon cords , the ends of which spill onto the floor like white seaweed ) . |
| 14 | Ealing 's films of the 1950s also deal with communities , not torn apart by inner rivalries but bonded in solidarity against an external aggressor . |
| 15 | The biggest of the East German firms already wound up by late October 1990 was the Dresden-based Pentacom , which had employed 5,600 mostly skilled workers to produce the hard-currency-earning Praktica camera , but was unable to survive commercially without state subsidies . |
| 16 | School cleaning in Lincolnshire is already carried out by private contractors . |
| 17 | Since we know that the periodicity of some variables is longer than the monitoring already carried out by human beings , we must make use of surrogate or proxy variables to extend our range of knowledge ( such as via tree rings , palynology , oxygen isotope ratios from ice cores and geomorphological evidence of environmental change ) ; |
| 18 | This work is not carried out by MAS but we should be mindful of opportunities to sell ( subtly ) the firm 's services in this area . |
| 19 | Thus , we would undoubtedly feel less happy if political polls were not carried out by independent agencies . |
| 20 | They are not suitable instruments for exploratory research , which is best carried out by in-depth investigation of a small number of speakers . |
| 21 | Examination and determination : The government should acknowledge that the handling of asylum applications is best carried out by qualified interviewers with knowledge of conditions in the applicants ' country . |
| 22 | They are very interested in successful women , but not turned on by facial good looks . |
| 23 | Political behaviour is not shaped exclusively by social forces . |
| 24 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 25 | The charge was not made openly by Labour candidates , but there is little doubt that the belief was fostered that a vote for the Alliance was a vote for cessation of relief . |
| 26 | Even if he did not do so by personal choice , the execution would doubtless be ordered from Washington as a matter of course . |
| 27 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Ah but you 're not the You know I 'm not going down by bloody choice no not by choice . |
| 29 | It began to rain , and his heart sank , for the book was a valuable one , laboriously copied out by inspired monks . |
| 30 | . Well I expect we ought to go over , do some work got you a loaf , but I did n't get nothing else , if we just pop round by Swiss Bakery . |