Example sentences of "[verb] by [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
| 2 | The proportions of convictions varied by nearly the same degree . |
| 3 | U2 are not a pop group like The Undertones , although their music is driven and energised by exactly the same instinctive romantic desire — wish fulfilment . |
| 4 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |
| 5 | Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House . |
| 6 | If you look carefully at this table , you will see that the combination of + and — values for each phoneme is different ; if two sounds were represented by exactly the same + 's and — 's , then by definition they could not be different phonemes . |
| 7 | Every year they take exactly the same route as previous generations , for all are influenced by exactly the same topography . |
| 8 | Expenditure in the year had increased by exactly the same percentage as income , with almost half of the increase attributable to modernisation and the building of new lifeboat stations . |
| 9 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 10 | Thus the operation of discretion by juvenile liaison officers is structured by much the same variables as with the section police : ‘ It all depends upon their attitude . ’ |
| 11 | The question of why we want it is a psychological one , which we answer by much the same means . |
| 12 | Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price . |
| 13 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 14 | It 's interesting to note that , while the French and the English spend similar amounts of money on clothes , the French have by far the more stylist reputation . |
| 15 | But the sexual division of labour — whether it is the male , the female , or both parents who look after the young — is controlled by much the same forces as control other sexual differences and is therefore appropriately treated in this chapter . |
| 16 | History , in fact , works by exactly the same structure of supplementarity as Derrida charts in Of Grammatology . |