Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NME of this period is a mutant hybrid where reviews of Engelbert Humperdinck , Andy Williams , The Doors and Led Zeppelin sit uneasily side by side on the page . |
| 2 | It will be clear that these two dynamical elements , the smooth propagation a la Schrödinger and the discontinuous collapse on making a measurement , sit uneasily side by side . |
| 3 | Purely on the strength of a chance remark by my retailer , who thought the symptoms could have been caused by metal toxicity , the tank was stripped down piece by piece . |
| 4 | He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen . |
| 5 | The ideal situation would be a marriage between the two seemingly opposing principles , where alternative and orthodox practitioners reign harmoniously side by side . |
| 6 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 7 | There were layers of Gaily 's patience , built up grain by grain over the years like geological strata . |
| 8 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 9 | Such was the speed of the changes in Japan at this time that it is easy to draw a somewhat misleading impression of unilinear progress , a clearly conceived plan of action from the beginning , logically carried out step by step . |
| 10 | After that their nature unfolds remorselessly petal by petal . ’ |
| 11 | The guest list for Anne 's wedding , at Crathie Church , has varied almost day by day . |
| 12 | Such hill-forts of successive races or groups living uneasily side by side continued to dominate the landscape during recurrent tribal and racial struggles for power . |
| 13 | She hands over the bags and we walk along side by side . |
| 14 | There it was saved further prolongation by discovery by the Germans before anyone had escaped at all . |
| 15 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 16 | Such issues grew out of my reflections upon the images of school which were built up incident by incident , interview by interview , comment by comment . |
| 17 | Ray Reynolds has lived in the area all his life , both his bungalow home and the 250 acre farm he 's built up bit by bit would disappear under the reservoir . |
| 18 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 19 | Because of these complexities , friendships with the Willses tend to be built up step by step and to become all the more valued because their qualities are seldom revealed all at one time . |
| 20 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |
| 21 | The information only came out bit by bit since she 's still not easy in her mind about talking to us . |
| 22 | The sadness came out week by week and we confronted it . |
| 23 | The second key piece of information was that Angela Morgan 's car had been found in North Kensington , not far from her flat , and was now cordoned off and being crawled over inch by inch by a forensic team hastily dispatched by Davidson . |
| 24 | Although the existence of the statutes indicates certain offences which sometimes creep into public life , it is most gratifying to note that amongst the many tens of thousands of councillors serving voluntarily year by year in this country a prosecution under this Act is very rare indeed . |
| 25 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 26 | ’ My God it 's going up day by day . |
| 27 | When next they start going up month by month , will the headlines trumpet , Good news for home owners ? |
| 28 | For instance , sugar came in huge blocks , so that before weighing it out , sufficient must be chipped off with a knife ; and black treacle must be ladled out spoonful by spoonful into the customer 's jar . |
| 29 | If I were he , I 'd build Lord P[almerston] an office with all the capitals upside down ; and tell him it was the Greek style , inverted , to express typically Government by Party : Up today , down tomorrow . |
| 30 | It showed how categorisation by discipline installations , painting , photography and so on can still work effectively as a way of organising an exhibition . |