Example sentences of "[adv] by a [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The skull smashed , apparently by a heavy mallet which Lorrimer had been examining . |
5 | The animals were part of a flock of 70 sheep which were driven into the brook , apparently by a stray dog . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Speakers of a common language , by contrast , are bound together by a moral practice . |
8 | Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement , responsibility and loyalty . |
9 | The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The two sentences are bound together by a cohesive tie . |
12 | It consists of a number of locally-based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
13 | It consists of a number of locally based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
14 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
15 | In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |
20 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
21 | Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter 's pound . |
22 | Babies ' christening robes were particularly affecting ; they might have been blown together by a soft breeze , so invisible was their stitching . |
23 | But this was not a justification for the dissolution of an association of this kind ; the different republics and nationalities were bound together by a common history , by ties of marriage and settlement , and by the trade that they conducted with each other . |
24 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |
25 | The company is viewed as an organic body , bound together by a common purpose under the direction of its expert managers . |
26 | A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style . |
27 | There 's a feeling of belonging and caring ; the demonstrators seem bonded together by a common link . |
28 | Clark Kerr put it aptly enough in his famous observation that the ‘ multiversity ’ , as he called it , had become ‘ a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking ’ . |
29 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
30 | The reason why this rebellion was successful was in large measure due to the allegiance which the King was able to command from a people who were already bound together by a common language , system of law and form of government . |