Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The killings have been surrounded by controversy ever since , but Government lawyers were arguing before the Human Rights Commission today that a British inquest has already ruled that the deaths were ‘ lawful ’ . |
| 2 | The ‘ avant-garde ’ here means , of course , constructivism , surrealism and a range of Weimar practices grouped by Callinicos somewhat misleadingly under the label ‘ Neue Sachlichkeit ’ . |
| 3 | Analysts , impressed by results so far , think Zurich is well-placed to do both . |
| 4 | These heavily-travelled , perpetually busy airways are supplemented by others currently less hectic but growing fast both in use and consequence . |
| 5 | Egypt itself had been penetrated by Greeks as early as the seventh century , when Ionian and Karian mercenaries were hired by the Saite pharaohs . |
| 6 | The results of the computer run using the real sites showed a five-point alignment , which would be expected by chance only once in 250 runs . |
| 7 | Mr McLaughlin was interviewed by detectives twice yesterday . |
| 8 | One possibility for the near-future which has hardly been considered by developers so far , is a marriage of an old-fashioned storage such as the magnetic hard disc with a newcomer such as DVI . |
| 9 | Lime ( to keep the pH near 6 and replace the calcium sold off in milk ) and basic slag ( to replace the phosphorus and other elements exported in animal bones ) can be applied by contractor relatively cheaply to all but the steepest fields . |
| 10 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 11 | Far from the rugged nature of most combat sportsmen , he has been sidelined by injuries only too often during his career , though , in his eight-year period as Britain 's top middleweight , he has won two European silver medals , a world bronze medal , and two Olympic fifth places . |
| 12 | If perfume was accepted by Jesus then surely it must be acceptable to everyone . |
| 13 | Here , information on current consumer preferences can be transmitted by computer almost instantaneously from the marketplace to the factory , wherever it might be , and even design modifications or completely new designs can be electronically fed into CAD/ CAM equipment in the factory for instant production . |
| 14 | The ( tax free ) capital gains made by owner-occupiers generally far exceed any possible savings that they might make from their income . |
| 15 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , issued last October , should be adopted by companies as soon as possible , and regarded as standard for financial statements relating to reporting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |
| 16 | Initial documents were sent to Dublin from Britain in January , but Mr Barnes has since revealed that more documents were supplied by London as recently as July . |
| 17 | In Yorkshire for example , the formal acts of parliament of the late eighteenth century were far more concerned with the enclosure of the upland pastures than with open-field land , most of which had been enclosed by agreement long before . |
| 18 | Included in the sale is James Burrough , best known for its Beefeater gin , which was bought by Whitbread little more than two years ago ; the Buckingham Wile Company , which distributes Beefeater , Cutty Sark Scotch , and Benedictine in the US ; and the Atlas Peak vinyards in California . |
| 19 | so he said that apparently whenever he came back to B S H he was told by Neville roughly about eighteen hundred acres would be sort of his target |
| 20 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 21 | A PENSIONER , Daniel Kenny , 71 , died when a house at Kirkports , North Berwick , was engulfed by fire early yesterday . |
| 22 | Contacted by telephone early yesterday when fighting was still under way , a young American couple told of how they crouched on the floor of their appartment , armed with their own guns , terrified that reports of the Battalions roaming suburban areas would mean the thugs appearing at their door . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've already been contacted by people as far away from the airport as Holywood and Cultra , as well as many businesses , worried about this possibility , ’ said the City Council Ulster Unionist deputy leader . |
| 24 | I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking . |
| 25 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |
| 26 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |
| 27 | But the great bulk of their music makes its effect exclusively by its singing lines , moving by step more often than leap , and beautifully spaced harmonic euphony , producing a sense of timelessness by the absence of marked rhythm or the thrust of any but the gentlest dissonance . |
| 28 | Trespass by beasts so often takes the form of ‘ cattle trespass ’ ( with which we deal separately ) that one does not meet with many ordinary actions for trespass in the reports . |
| 29 | Reviled by Romanians almost as much as his parents for his playboy lifestyle and debauchery , he had been captured on Dec. 22 and paraded before the cameras at the television station in Bucharest ( the revolutionary headquarters of the National Salvation Front ) . |
| 30 | On the supply side , services would be provided by hospitals still directly managed by health authorities , hospitals and community units who opt out of health authority control and become self-governing NHS trusts , private and voluntary suppliers of services . |