Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stance most widely adopted by politicians , demographers , and economists was closely related to some of the eugenist arguments of the inter-war years : namely that the ageing of the population would create an unbalanced ratio of workers to dependents , with severe social and economic consequences . |
| 2 | This view was most effectively expressed by writers such as G.H. Mead ( 1934 ) and L.S. Vygotsky ( trans. 1962 , 1978 ) over 50 years ago . |
| 3 | The contradictory nature of the party leadership 's stance on cultural matters between 1928 and 1934 was most strikingly illustrated by Barbusse 's editorial control of the journal Monde . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The idea that the appearance of amour courtois in late eleventh-century Aquitaine was one of the great moments in the history of mankind was most powerfully expressed by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love . |
| 6 | It is the ITV network that is most obviously threatened by Pearson . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | It is in this context of how far US reforms affected the substance of attitudes towards liberal democracy , that we uncover the origins of the positive view of Japan 's unique culture so widely publicized by writers like Nakane and Vogel . |
| 11 | The Contagious Diseases Act which had been so bitterly opposed by feminists like Butler , had extended well beyond sanitary supervision of common prostitutes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Strange , is n't it , or perhaps not so strange , that the word is so much used by theoreticians and so little used by artists themselves ? |
| 14 | The political situation continued to deteriorate during May , apparently little affected by President Paul Biya 's decision the previous month to appoint a Prime Minister , Sadou Hayatou [ see p. 38135 ] , and a " transitional " government which was in effect barely changed in its composition . |
| 15 | Brighton four-piece Sleep have produced a mighty fine debut which is obviously predominantly influenced by US hardcore but also owes quite a large debt to our own Snuff . |
| 16 | Brighton four-piece Sleep have produced a mighty fine debut which is obviously predominantly influenced by US hardcore but also owes quite a large debt to our own Snuff . |
| 17 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 18 | It was time to jettison a faith so badly shaken by events , and be a convert to outdated gradualism after all . |
| 19 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 20 | And now she was frightened of him — Dr Neil , who was so kind and good , and had already been so badly damaged by life … |
| 21 | Essentially , we are talking about the cold war period , so brilliantly analysed by Mary Kaldor under the rubric of ‘ imaginary war ’ , and as far as Europe and relations between the Soviet Union and the United States are concerned , I have little to add . |
| 22 | Growth by suckering is merely an extension of its own life ; it achieves reproduction by producing seeds which are encased in the edible fruit so fondly admired by birds . |
| 23 | Consequently an MdB is much less harassed by routine constituency casework than is a conscientious MP . |
| 24 | He ignites the imagination , nevertheless , with glancing observations of Skye ‘ … so much indented by inlets of the Sea , that there is no part of it removed from the water by more than six miles ’ . |
| 25 | Britain has been so much influenced by America we no longer consider Woolies , Mars bars and shopping malls ( see last week ) to be American . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 28 | Their foil in the north gallery is a selection of eight important Minimalist sculptures by Barnett Newman , Robert Morris , Donald Judd , Sol LeWitt and Carl André , represented by a magnesium floor sculpture and ‘ Equivalent VIII ’ , the brick sculpture so much discussed by London 's taxi drivers . |
| 29 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |
| 30 | Strange , is n't it , or perhaps not so strange , that the word is so much used by theoreticians and so little used by artists themselves ? |