Example sentences of "[adv] by the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |
| 2 | Somehow that made the kidnap all the more obscene : as if the little family , broken yet strangely bound together by the same tragedy , had not suffered enough . |
| 3 | As with all so-called movements , an anti-movement is created instantaneously by the same audience . |
| 4 | There was a lot of short-pitched bowling , with a vast array of slips and gullies , but Gooch ( 8 ) survived a low catch to Inzamam off Akram , and Stewart ( 14 ) was put down by the same fielder at full stretch off the same bowler when 14 . |
| 5 | So by the same token , I assume , building societies are also starting paying something over inflation rates , issued ? |
| 6 | Although the argument has been used that the proposed primary school will increase traffic , it will not do so by the same volume . |
| 7 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 8 | Bilingualism arises when two or more languages are used alternately by the same speaker . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not by the same artist , is it ? ’ |
| 10 | If it is true that public goods and services are oversupplied when benefits are concentrated and costs ( revenues ) dispersed , should they not by the same argument be undersupplied when benefits are dispersed but costs concentrated , or when both costs and benefits are dispersed ( Goodin 1982 ) ? |
| 11 | The concentrations of freon eleven and freon twelve dissolved in surface waters have both increased dramatically since nineteen fifty but not by the same amount and so measuring their ratio in a sea water sample will tell us how old the water is . |
| 12 | Every lawyer in the team is a supervisor for another lawyer and is in turn supervised , although not by the same lawyer . |
| 13 | She asks why women can not by the same token ‘ wrench back some wordpower ’ . |
| 14 | On fine evenings in summer , we always took a walk after church , usually by the same route , which was up St. Martin 's Lane and Fowlers Hill to Milford Hollow . |
| 15 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 16 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 17 | The clearing banks used to change their interest rates on advances and deposits automatically by the same amount that Bank rate changed . |
| 18 | The serious fraud office has been sent details of a business deal drawn up by the former chairman of Oxford United Kevin Maxwell , and the former managing director of Derby County . |
| 19 | So you 'll always know that , if your salary 's gone up by the same level , whenever you claim , it 's gon na be the same percentage as it was today . |
| 20 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 21 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 22 | You believe we were attacked for the same reason and probably by the same person . |
| 23 | Came out by the same Door as in I went |
| 24 | It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully . |
| 25 | Detectives believe this attack was carried out by the same man who raped a student from Somerville college two months ago in public toilets in the city centre . |
| 26 | Since the condition for rationality contained in restriction ( 7.3 ) rules out any systematic relation between v t , the prediction error , and lagged values of v t , it rules out by the same token any persistent deviation of y t from y * ; . |
| 27 | Everything was a dangerous practice though by the same rule . |
| 28 | No convincing reason has been given for treating onshore and offshore workers differently — often by the same company . |
| 29 | In the Lutheran lands the ‘ spiritual song ’ was cultivated with the same variety of treatment , often by the same composer . |
| 30 | The counter is more likely than not to be manufactured by an enemy country , but it could be manufactured by the same country , even by the same company ! |