Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 2 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 3 | But there are few advocates for patients with anorexia nervosa and they carry the risk of being squeezed out by the increasingly technological emphasis of general medicine and the concentration of psychiatric services on the needs of chronic psychotic patients . |
| 4 | Using a non-brittle stone , such as jade , shaping could only be carried out by the infinitely more laborious process of grinding . |
| 5 | There are some words which are simply anomalous , like women , or once or gaol ( which is , anyway , being pushed out by the more reasonable jail ) . |
| 6 | If such measures lead to replacement of all today 's inefficient equipment as it wears out by the most efficient equipment now on the market , Sweden will need only 111 TWh of electricity in 2010 , rather than 140 TWh . |
| 7 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 8 | For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went . |
| 9 | MacKinnon 's further suggestion that the social life of the orang-utan could resemble that of early arboreal ape ancestors and to antedate the more terrestrial adaptations of the chimpanzee and gorilla seem borne out by the most recent studies . |
| 10 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 11 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 12 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 13 | A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life . |
| 14 | This was a review of the Youth Service , set up by the recently elected Conservative government . |
| 15 | Another seldom-mentioned change in the Polish standard of living is the increase in dollar purchasing-power brought about by the newly stable zloty . |
| 16 | First , one of the most important conceptual changes brought about by the most recent wave of feminism is the general recognition that housework is work in all the conventional senses , except that it is unpaid . |
| 17 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |
| 18 | This suggests a reduction in nitrate leaching brought about by the now well-established practice of cultivation of winter cereals , together with less use of fertiliser in the autumn . |
| 19 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 20 | An increase in the real money supply can be brought about by the far more direct route of central bank intervention to increase the nominal stock of money by an amount sufficient to attain full employment . |
| 21 | The food was served up by the equally cheerful owner , a middle-aged lady who did not believe in overcharging her customers . |
| 22 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 23 | Those responsibilities not taken over by the newly privatised gas , petroleum and electricity industries are expected to be handed over to existing departments such as Trade and Industry and Environment . |
| 24 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | What is clear , I think , is that to refer to the whole debate as a ‘ scandal ’ is grossly to exaggerate the position , and it disregards the very great scientific problems thrown up by the apparently simple question of whether low-level lead exposure does indeed produce the alleged effects . |
| 26 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |
| 27 | Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor . |
| 28 | KEROSENE , fierce guitar quintet recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , take time out from recording their debut EP with Neds/MC4 producer Jessica Corcoran to play Colchester Hippodrome on September 14 . |
| 29 | KEROSENE , West Didsbury outfit recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , play |