Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timetable will need to be agreed with court officials and will be affected by this and also by the fact that petitions are usually only heard on Mondays . |
| 2 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 3 | On one of them , the leather sole had been built up fairly high and yet by the sheer elegance of the design the modification scarcely showed . |
| 4 | For example , the encouragement of council house sales by Conservative governments under the terms of the Housing ( Finance ) Act 1972 and subsequently by the Housing Act 1980 has boosted owner-occupation . |
| 5 | In the case of national trends , fiscal and monetary Policies adopted by the Labour government between 1976 and 1979 and particularly by the Conservative government between 1979 and 1982 had a marked effect on many urban manufacturing companies . |
| 6 | In June among the initial measures of Cresson 's government were bills providing for ( i ) hospital reform ( designed to tighten government regulations over private components of the national health system , approved by the National Assembly on its first reading on April 29 , by the Senate on June 7 and finally by the National Assembly on June 19 and prompting protests by 60,000-100,000 people on June 11 ) ; ( ii ) tougher penalties for desecrating graves ( approved on June 14 following the desecration of Jewish graves in Carpentras in May 1990 — see p. 37468 ; for earlier legislation against racism see p. 37683 ) ; and ( iii ) restrictions on telephone tapping ( the latter receiving the approval of the National Assembly on June 13 and of the Senate on June 25 ) . |
| 7 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 8 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 9 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 10 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 11 | In 1991 the UK current account deficit was a little over £6 billion and is expected to double in size to £12 billion or more by the end of 1992 . |
| 12 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 13 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 14 | A range of studies have demonstrated the vitality of the parent-child tie , sustained not only by visiting but also by a flow of assistance of various kinds in both directions . |
| 15 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 16 | The legislature concluded that it was inconvenient for leases for the duration of the war to be void and therefore by the Validation of War-time Leases Act 1944 Parliament provided , by section 1(1) , that any agreement entered into before or after the passing of the Act which purported to grant a tenancy for the duration of the war : |
| 17 | Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it |
| 18 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 19 | On both occasions the violation of the maxim , in contrast to earlier instances we have examined , is deliberate , and asserts his wish , indirectly and politely at first and then by a bald on-record demand , to leave the speech situation altogether , a fact which strongly implicates his insecurity in it . |
| 20 | The effect of NO synthase inhibition was not only indicated by an increase in the maximal response induced by CCK-8 but also by a prolonged duration of the response . |
| 21 | The demand for imported goods by the USA has been sustained not only by the growth of incomes during the economic expansion since 1982 but also by the considerable appreciation of the US dollar in foreign exchange markets between 1979 and 1985 ( the depreciation of the dollar beginning in March 1985 ) . |
| 22 | It is true that even by the mid 1870s the total student body was little over 10,000 in a population of 75 million . |
| 23 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 24 | Justice Shepherd emphasised that in placing the advertisement with its claims in the press , it needed to be appreciated that it would be ‘ read by the intelligent and the wary and also by the unsuspecting , the gullible , and the impressionable . ’ |
| 25 | Alexei stared out of the open end of the room , awed as always by the view . |