Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | The woods worst affected by the storms were those with mainly uniform , planted stands of trees , whereas those comprising trees of different ages and species were better able to withstand the high winds . |
| 3 | Kenneth Markham , who works for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , funded by the New Zealand government , analysed flavonoids , photo-protective pigments which are synthesised in plants when they are exposed to harmful UV-B radiation , the wavelength most affected by the depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 4 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 5 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 6 | These two patterns of behaviour both involve layers in which there is convection due to the driving component little modified by the presence of the other component . |
| 7 | The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis , the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan 's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action , even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement . |
| 8 | However , before considering the statements on the curriculum eventually produced by the DES let us summarise some of the issues of the ‘ debate ’ . |
| 9 | In his speech on Sept. 25 , United States President Bush welcomed the creation of a Gulf Crisis Financial Co-ordination Committee [ see below ] charged with providing emergency relief to front-line states most affected by the crisis . |
| 10 | that the order was in the circumstances of this case properly made by the registrar . |
| 11 | There is also a rough correlation between the groups most hit by the austerity measures and those in the vanguard of the strikes . |
| 12 | Even so , as in the first round , he retained considerable support in the rural areas and among social groups most threatened by the economic changes ( such as farmers and miners ) and disaffected young people . |
| 13 | In the 1992 election campaign , Jagan performed a political volte face , promising to continue with the free market policies latterly pursued by the PNC government , including the privatization of state enterprises , in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 14 | We were of course much hampered by the lack of weather reports to the west of us , as most of our weather comes from the west and Eire , being neutral in the war , did n't supply us with any reports . |
| 15 | The case may mark the end of the political protection long enjoyed by the logging companies . |
| 16 | It will offer the spine of News and Current Affairs programmes so appreciated by the Radio 4 audience : Today , The World At One , PM , the 6 O'Clock News and The World Tonight will be there , on both networks . |
| 17 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 18 | Generally , works by Renoir , Chagall , Sisley and Pissarro artists hardest hit by the Japanese pull-out stabilised at pre-boom prices , Renoir 's ‘ Yvonne et Jean ’ from the Boston estate sold to an anonymous collector at $2.2 million ( £1.2 million ; est. $2–2.5 million ) . |
| 19 | This change would also break the ITV companies ' monopoly over advertising revenue ( a change much favoured by the Peacock Committee and advertisers , amongst others ) . |
| 20 | But drift gill-nets ( which are not fixed ) present a much greater entanglement hazard for the tucuxi , since they are used in the deep main river channels rarely frequented by the boto . |
| 21 | In the provinces most affected by the wave of prosperity the number of cattle thefts reported in 1898 — 9 was twenty-seven per cent less than in 1897 and 1900 ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 22 | Is that setting greatly affected by the incidence of hedges and fields ? |
| 23 | 9.13 Tenant 's property If after the Tenant has vacated the Premises on the expiry of the Term any property of the Tenant remains in or on the Premises and the Tenant fails to remove it within [ 7 ] days after being requested in writing by the Landlord to do so or if after using [ its ] best endeavours the Landlord is unable to make such a request to the Tenant within [ 14 ] days from the first attempt so made by the Landlord : |
| 24 | The reopening of borders long sealed by the cold war could be the event that confirms the change . |
| 25 | Dada was a state of mind feverishly exalted by the freedom virus , a unique mixture of insatiable curiosity , playfulness and pure contradiction . |
| 26 | So there I was at the Whirl-Y-Gig , which is a New Age club much favoured by the Haight-Ashbury set . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend will be aware that many of my constituents work in the knitwear industry and are grateful for the steps already taken by the Government . |
| 28 | Such a decision would be complementary to the steps already taken by the Chief Constable following the sectarian killings of the past few weeks . |
| 29 | Alcester , Twyford , Whitmore Reans and Dutton Opens went first on the the Avon , canals and Earlswood lakes soon followed by the Kidderminster and Warwich matches . |
| 30 | Another Anglican Parish was created in the Grove Park area of Chiswick , upon the building of another church , in 1872 , with funds generously provided by the seventh Duke of Devonshire , and the Church was named St. Paul 's . |