Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capt Forgrave 's citation said he ‘ became widely respected by all sides as a courageous , totally honest and highly capable officer . ’ |
| 2 | Although the relocation firms use bilingual counsellors when helping foreign transferees to find property , this is not considered enough help by some companies . |
| 3 | You 're becoming utterly spoiled by that wretched woman . |
| 4 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 5 | Given the amount of matter in the vicinity of Sgr A , an outburst is not an unreasonable expectation , although since its discovery in 1974 , the luminosity has not changed by more than a factor of two . |
| 6 | Given that we rarely ever got to the bye-line , Sunderland never looked really troubled by this . |
| 7 | You will have noted the additional appointment of at least one wine waiter : the fact that the total wages bill has n't increased by more than about 2.2 per cent suggests that there have been some compensating reductions , probably in the part-time staff , and almost certainly in view of the decline in trade . |
| 8 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 9 | That free kick is the best Ive ever seen by ANY player . |
| 10 | The thorough and accomplished virtuoso , the reasonable and methodical teacher , the learned musician — these characteristics … are all here revealed in one … for many of those , too , who profess the violin will here find instruction , and will do well to profit by this great master 's teaching , so as no longer to spoil their pupils with bad precepts . |
| 11 | A dramatic event would be played out in front of the class — for example a man would run in pursued by another . |
| 12 | If Edmund Ironside 's involvement with the Welsh is not thought sufficiently established by this evidence , it can also be fitted into a plausible historical context . |
| 13 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
| 14 | There is nothing like sitting out on a trapeze on a windy day , getting completely soaked by each new wave to make you feel cleansed of the city grime . |
| 15 | INTEL FIGURES NOT FAVOURED BY ALL |
| 16 | If the adventurers have destroyed the Blackshard , the Oracle ( if he still lives ) wo n't attack them when they return to room 66 ( all the mucus in stairwell 67 will have magically vanished by this time , allowing them to return ) . |
| 17 | I felt somewhat thrown by this information , having assumed Sergei had simply made a mistake in the Christian name . |
| 18 | Marc looked merely bored by this . |
| 19 | I do not mean just dating by this ; there are all sorts of relationships that you can enter into that are just on a one-to-one basis . |
| 20 | She felt deeply moved by this picture of his plight ; it exactly expressed how hard he was to understand , how hard just to talk to . |
| 21 | When I was fifteen I was sitting at home and my dad was crashed out in the chair , my dad 's a Fords worker , and the Miss World beauty contest came on the television and I just felt really overwhelmed by this vision . |
| 22 | He understood her nervousness , but felt ill treated by this change of tone . |
| 23 | Government recognized that nurses did not take strike action and believed that it was right to have a system of pay determination which meant that they did not lose by that policy . |
| 24 | I do not mean by that someone who stands in front of a class of children , but a person who is able to pass on wisdom and knowledge to others . |
| 25 | I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects . |
| 26 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 27 | Presumably Hurd and Baker do not mean by this that Hamas , the Gaza-based fundamentalist movement dedicated to destroying Israel ( unlike the PLO ) , should take up the official torch of Palestinian independence ! |
| 28 | Similarly , most villages today do not qualify by these standards — most are suburban or retirement centres , not more than half a dozen practise communal agriculture , and most do not even have working farms in them . |
| 29 | This makes it hard to see why a 20 per cent rule has much appeal , and a more attractive rule might ensure that the activities of participants do not overlap by more than some specific amount . |
| 30 | Unless your own house has been sold , or there is sufficient spare cash to buy a second , do not purchase by this method . |