Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you all got that down by the way ? |
| 2 | Even a decentralised arrangement , it says , would fail to provide the kind of accountable local government that would be possible only by the provision of smaller unitary authorities . |
| 3 | Made possible only by the miracle of airborne travel . |
| 4 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 5 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 6 | Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 7 | a ) Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 8 | ‘ Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January . ’ |
| 9 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |
| 10 | The silence seemed broken only by the sound of Isabel 's laboured breathing . |
| 11 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 12 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 13 | The first is that if it were false , a would still believe it ; we have dealt with this already by the addition of clause 3 . |
| 14 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 15 | The Greeks were followed in 30 BC by the arrival of Roman and later Byzantine rulers who were to survive until AD 638 . |
| 16 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 17 | The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last . |
| 18 | It was 2 a.m. by the time I joined Kenneth Cranham and his wife , Fiona Victory , in the lounge of the University Arms Hotel . |
| 19 | looking at doing this again by the way . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , Hilary , ’ she said , leading the two year old forward by the hand . |
| 21 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |
| 22 | A patchy picture also emerges from the serious assault statistics , with an 8.5 per cent rise across the six forces surveyed driven primarily by the surge in Strathclyde . |
| 23 | It goes all the way to Kyle of Lochalsh these days turning southwards from Achnasheen , leaving the wild vastness of Wester Ross accessible only by the motor car , a later and more threatening penetration . |
| 24 | ‘ I am so lucky , ’ she said , ‘ the water in these two hot-water bottles will still be warm enough by the morning for my bath . ’ |
| 25 | He was relieved somewhat by the fact that the horse did not balk at approaching the house . |
| 26 | Prevent the ends twisting and the resulting torsion is relieved only by the strand twisting about itself . |
| 27 | It was relieved only by the arrival of Lancelot M. Henly as Secretary . |
| 28 | She seemed bored already by the visit . |
| 29 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 30 | The republic of Rome was severely shaken in 44 B.C. by the murder of Julius Caesar . |