Example sentences of "[adv] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 5 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The clock room , furnished entirely by the antique-spotting owners , Philip and Lesley Davies , is open all day to nonresidents for tea , coffee and naughty-but-nice goodies , served with mints and carnations for the ladies . |
| 8 | The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector . |
| 9 | Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army . |
| 10 | This was music in which note-values were determined entirely by the prosodic quantities of the text , so that note-against-note setting was inevitable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No consistent difference was found in the representation of skeletal elements , but bone breakage and digestion are considerably greater in the nest assemblages ( Table 2.2 ) , which were accumulated almost entirely by the immature fledglings . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | A policeman was shot dead on Nov. 22 on the university campus in Istanbul , apparently by the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Left ( Dev Sol ) . |
| 18 | It was put together by , it was put together by the Chief Fire Officer and the Chief Executive er , not just the Chief Fire Officer . |
| 19 | I had pulled the team together by the second half , and Sporting found us a very different proposition and were lucky to hold us to 0–0 . |
| 20 | Her wardrobe was put together by the debonair O'Toole who took Tara to the chic London designershop , Burns . |
| 21 | It would have been nice to have had somebody so that they could have been turned on together by the faint giggles and murmured conversation coming from upstairs . |
| 22 | COLIN Montgomerie was yesterday fined £1,000 and told to get his act together by the European Tour chief executive , Ken Schofield , who was upset by his fellow-Scot 's criticism of the King 's Course at Agadir in last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 23 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 24 | In any case , where the supplier offers competitive or preferential credit terms and loan finance to the customer , the two parties become tied together by the financial packaging of contractual terms between the two parties . |
| 25 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 26 | However , the precise relationship between the USA and its former colony , which continued to be bound together by the 1951 Philippines-US Mutual Defence Treaty , remained unclear . |
| 27 | In each sentence , the subject and object are hinged together by the connecting verb , the verb that shows just what the subject is doing to the object . |
| 28 | An entity MALE and an entity FEMALE may be joined together by the optional relationship married to . |
| 29 | Spain , its two kingdoms brought together by the dual monarchy of the Catholic Kings , Ferdinand and Isabella , and beginning to benefit from the riches of the New World , was emerging out of its previous isolation and preoccupation with internal affairs to become one of the two dominant powers of Europe . |
| 30 | La Fille Mal Gardée Ashton 's English comic masterpiece Above : Lise and Colas are drawn together by the pink ribbons ; below : Alain misses Lise 's kiss ( Wendy Ellis , Wayne Eagling , Guy Niblett and The Royal Ballet ) |