Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not something to be bestowed whimsically by a benevolent manager ( Earley and Fletcher-Campbell 1989:203 ) . |
| 2 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 3 | PRESIDENT Bush 's National Security Adviser , Admiral Brent Scowcroft , was greeted warmly by the Chinese leader , Mr Deng Xiaoping , yesterday during an unannounced weekend visit to Beijing which tacitly buried the US ban on high-level governmental contacts with China . |
| 4 | This last task , in fact , had earlier been found to be performed better by the left hand of neurologically intact right and left handers ( Kimura and Vanderwolf 1970 ) . |
| 5 | Another property of the transition series metals is their ability to form chemical bonds where the electrons are provided entirely by the other bonding species ( called ligands ) . |
| 6 | The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector . |
| 7 | Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army . |
| 8 | As the phase circuit model contains no other non-linearities , the fundamental component of phase current is produced entirely by the fundamental component of phase voltage . |
| 9 | As we have already explained , such a change in angle of attack is formed naturally by the conical sailform on a delta , but it needs to be held in place on sharply tapered types . |
| 10 | At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases . |
| 11 | Jerome Leyraud , a French worker for the relief agency Médécins du Monde , was kidnapped in West Beirut only hours after McCarthy 's release on Aug. 8 , apparently by a radical Shia faction opposed to the release of hostages , but he was released unharmed at dawn on Aug. 11 . |
| 12 | The skull smashed , apparently by a heavy mallet which Lorrimer had been examining . |
| 13 | The animals were part of a flock of 70 sheep which were driven into the brook , apparently by a stray dog . |
| 14 | After being tipped in The Observer as the next Labour leader ( Gadfly , Feb 19 ) he is now favoured apparently by the Prime Minister himself . |
| 15 | An army officer was killed by an ETA car bomb in Salamanca on Sept. 2 ; an off-duty policeman was shot dead in San Sebastián on Sept. 13 ; and a local policeman in Baracaldo near Bilbao , who had once been imprisoned for providing an ETA unit with accommodation , was killed on Oct. 21 apparently by the premature explosion of a bomb which he was handling . |
| 16 | A policeman was shot dead on Nov. 22 on the university campus in Istanbul , apparently by the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Left ( Dev Sol ) . |
| 17 | It was like a machine where every single bit was perfectly made , but had been put together by a one-handed nome in the dark . |
| 18 | Speakers of a common language , by contrast , are bound together by a moral practice . |
| 19 | Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement , responsibility and loyalty . |
| 20 | The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie . |
| 21 | The centrepiece of Joseph Ettedgui 's latest emporium is this complex glass stair held together by a delicate spider 's web of steel rods , split pins and steel rings . |
| 22 | The two sentences are bound together by a cohesive tie . |
| 23 | It consists of a number of locally-based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
| 24 | It consists of a number of locally based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
| 25 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
| 26 | In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible . |
| 27 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 28 | The loading bay had old roll-across galvanised doors , twisted and battered out of shape and just about held together by a new-looking chain sheathed in blue plastic . |
| 29 | In striking contrast , modern industrial societies were characterized by heterogeneity , and were held together by a superior bonding principle which , following the centuries ' old analogy between the body-politic and the human organism , Durkheim chose to call ‘ organic solidarity ’ . |
| 30 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |