Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 2 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 3 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 4 | In my opinion these financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Welsh Development Agency and the Group at 31 March 1990 and of the results and the source and application of funds of the Group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 and determinations made thereunder by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 5 | He was treated pre-operatively by the physiotherapist who taught him deep breathing exercises . |
| 6 | In his Beverly Hills suit and hand-painted 1950s tie , Kaufman looked like a divorce lawyer in ‘ LA Law ’ ; his presence at the Tory Party 's autumn festival could be explained only by the need to earn a crust ; he had been invited by the BBC , no doubt , to comment on the proceedings . |
| 7 | By the eighteenth century salutes were normally given merely by the firing of guns , not by the more humiliating lowering of the flag or striking of sails . |
| 8 | Note that , if the key that has been requested is not present on the file , the unsuccessful search length is potentially limited only by the size of the file . |
| 9 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 10 | An open question invites a ‘ free ’ answer , recorded in full with the detail limited only by the space on the form . |
| 11 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 12 | Normal free-sparring in the training hall is limited only by the number of people there , so you can pick up bad competition habits through using space uneconomically . |
| 13 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 14 | The clinical usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction thus seems to be limited only by the power of our imagination in identifying specific targets . |
| 15 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 16 | The creative element in such notes is limited only by the imagination of you , the user . |
| 17 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 18 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 19 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 20 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 21 | The parallels of the extreme behaviourist and the extreme hereditarian meet at a finite point and join hands in mystic union , like the snake with its tail in its mouth , welded together by the acetylene torch of commitment to one approach and one answer to a multitude of questions . |
| 22 | The award is given annually by the Author 's Club on the recommendation of the RIBA 's Professional Literature Committee . |
| 23 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 24 | The scene had been altered only by the season . |
| 25 | It could have been taken , he reckoned , from the very spot where he was standing , capturing the scene much as it now was , altered only by the onset of winter . |
| 26 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 27 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 28 | These are the Department of Education and Training ( DET ) , responsible for providing education to African children living in ‘ white designated areas ’ ; the departments responsible for education in the so-called ‘ self-governing states ’ or bantustans/homelands ( Kwazulu , Lebowa , Gazankulu , Kangwane , Kwandebele and Qwaqwa ) ; and finally there are Ministries of Education in the so-called ‘ independent states ’ of Transkei , Bophuthatswana , Ciskei and Venda , whose ‘ independence ’ is recognized only by the South African government . |
| 29 | Today it has a distinct weight advantage over its rivals , its 400-day weights equalled only by the Simmental , and the meat is very lean . |
| 30 | Birth-rates recovered somewhat by the end of the 1930s ( e.g. to 1.83 in 1939 ) . |