Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
| 2 | A criminal case is normally brought by the State , or rather by the Crown Prosecution Service as the agents of the State , against an individual . |
| 3 | The threat in schools is posed by the degree of control which the executive is able to exert over the education of children , or rather by the possibility that the power to dictate ( by inclusion or exclusion ) the content of education could be abused by a government with extreme views . |
| 4 | How much of what teachers currently feel they have to do could be accomplished as well or better by the use of a library of varied instructional materials supervised by well-trained staff with both bibliographical and subject-teaching competence ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 7 | ( However , it must be said that even here , the seller would probably not want the contract to be terminated too quickly or easily by the buyer , as the seller has more to lose by being denied the chance to perform and get full payment for the supply of his goods . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A room status change can be initiated either by hotel staff entering a code manually on the bedroom telephone , or automatically by the Hotel Manager if , for example , a name is entered or deleted on the guest file . |
| 10 | This indirect evidence suggests a reduced absorption or increased secretion of protein , or both by the gall bladder leading to a change in the biliary protein fraction , as the gall bladder absorbs biliary protein selectively and the increased CSI enhances the secretion of pronucleating protein mucin . |
| 11 | Bred by Exhibitor For dogs who are not champions , and are owned wholly or partly by the breeder and shown by him or his family . |
| 12 | Where the premium is paid wholly or partly by the employer benefits should be paid directly to the employer . |
| 13 | Is the writer seriously suggesting that changing from a system where fees are paid in full by the state to a system where they are paid wholly or partly by the student is likely to be encouraging ? |
| 14 | On a number of later occasions — in 1749 , 1753 , 1771–74 and 1788 — the device of exiling the Parlement to a provincial town was resorted to ; but every one of these struggles was ended by concessions made solely or mainly by the king and his ministers . |
| 15 | Everything designed by man , actively by the making of a thing or passively by the comprehension of signals , acquires a scenario . |
| 16 | Suspense does not need to be created by violence or even by the threat of explicit violence . |
| 17 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 18 | Such high frequencies can not travel far because they are rapidly absorbed by floorboards , undergrowth , or even by the air itself , particularly if it is foggy or misty . |
| 19 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 20 | It is always useful to recall that while we celebrate Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as a literary highlight of the English Renaissance , the drama was not readily perceived as serious literature by the majority of those who watched plays or even by the minority who bought the plays in cheap unbound quarto editions . |
| 21 | At the other end of the scale one finds the hard pressed teacher or headmaster , besieged by parents , yet limited to a certain class size by government regulation ( or even by the number of spaces in his register page ) . |
| 22 | All business activity is related either explicitly in terms of the way in which functions are organised or implicitly by the business system . |
| 23 | The incorrect enzyme presence can be caused by the presence of recessive genes ; or simply by the absence of certain enzymes . |
| 24 | There is a comparable contradiction in those other eases where the form of appropriation is directly or indirectly by the State , and socialized forms of production are in practice controlled by an imposed management . |
| 25 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
| 26 | There is absolutely no question that there are kind of money advice people in the City sitting around with nothing to do , quite the contrary , so I mean it 's not a duplication , erm and of course we make sure that we that all the people involved in money advice within the City , whether funded directly or indirectly by the City Council , work with each other and co-operate with each other and form a network . |
| 27 | ( The context here makes the other possible reading , that the speaker is characteristically nervous all of the time , so unlikely as not to be considered apparently by the addressee , or indeed by the analyst until the process of analysis was brought to conscious attention . ) |
| 28 | That is incorrect , the report has never been considered by a committee of the County Council or indeed by the County Council . |
| 29 | Now legislation arises either from major political commitments made by the Cabinet ( or earlier by the Shadow Cabinet while the party was in opposition ) , or it is of a more routine nature and comes from within the departments when they find their existing powers insufficient or inappropriate for the conduct of administration along accepted lines . |
| 30 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |