Example sentences of "[adj] and by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , housing conditions were much improved by this and by the clearance of some 700 slum dwellings . |
| 2 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 3 | And I was half and half and by the time I you know , to come down to answer it mum , they 'd gone . |
| 4 | The slow-burning first half may induce yawns but the pace quickens in Act 2 and by the end you do n't want the music and laughter to stop . |
| 5 | Iraq invaded and overran Kuwait on Aug. 2 and by the end of August had completely absorbed Kuwait into its administrative structure , despite the international condemnation of the invasion . |
| 6 | Nearly two-thirds of the works which they have selected did not feature in the major retrospective surveys organised by the Tate Gallery in 1985 and by the Hirshhorn Museum , Washington , and the Metropolitan Museum , New York , in 1989–90 , and will not , as a result , be particularly well known outside the circles of scholarship and Bacon 's dealers . |
| 7 | In particular , such contempt may be dealt with without there being any formal institution of proceedings as such and by the judge who has been subject to abuse . |
| 8 | This amount is reduced by dividends received from the invested and by the investor 's share of invested 's losses . |
| 9 | Much of this turnround is accounted for by the decision to close the Bar Practising Library at the end of 1991 and by the disposal of its assets . |
| 10 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 11 | ‘ I also had four days to be nervous and by the time the big day arrived I was all nervoused out . |
| 12 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 13 | The legislation , which would have applied to some 50 per cent of US employees , had been passed by the House on May 10 and by the Senate on June 14 . |
| 14 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 15 | The BUF was contained by an unofficial publicity boycott in the media after 1934 and by the surveillance of the Security Service . |
| 16 | The de Veres ' change of heart , however , proved short-lived and by the end of the decade the family was again involved in opposition to Edward IV , this time in support of the earl of Warwick , whose sister Margaret had married the thirteenth earl of Oxford , John de Vere . |
| 17 | The de Veres ' change of heart , however , proved short-lived and by the end of the decade the family was again involved in opposition to Edward IV , this time in support of the earl of Warwick , whose sister Margaret had married the thirteenth earl of Oxford , John de Vere . |
| 18 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 19 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 20 | and he is n't in my opinion really considering half the other jobs , but he has said that he wants that and by the mercy of providence this business of Lee being flung out by Andy and being put back onto the into the job centre coincides with my being very tight on money . |
| 21 | They were confronted , by contrast , by Prime Ministers of the calibre of Pitt the Younger and by the time Victoria ascended the throne executive power had effectively shifted away from the throne and into the Cabinet room . |
| 22 | Turkish efforts to reverse the verdict between 1787 and 1791 were unavailing and by the Treaty of Jassy she was compelled to acknowledge Russian rule across the northern coast of the Black Sea . |
| 23 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
| 24 | ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue . |
| 25 | In contrast , with doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( run 4 ) the mean column amount decreased steadily after day 80 and by the end of the simulation was 150DU lower than in the other simulations . |
| 26 | Despite such criticisms , the British found these courts useful and by the end of the century they had jurisdiction over most rural areas . |
| 27 | The European-wide recession has been chiefly to blame , along with competition from American companies aided by a weak dollar in 1992 and by the fact that Novaceta 's European customers have faced tough competition from Far East textile manufacturers . |
| 28 | For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday . |
| 29 | Manufacturers have been particularly active in finding new permanent magnets , spurred both by the cobalt crisis in the late 1970s and by the need to reduce the weight of the materials — dozens of magnets are hidden away in cars , electronic devices , computer disc drives etc . |
| 30 | And how can deposit requirements be administratively impossible if they were used by the Bank of Italy in the 1970s and by the Bank of Spain just last year ? |