Example sentences of "[conj] by a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICD lead sytems can be inserted by median sternotomy at the time of coronary or valve surgery or by a more limited left lateral thoracotomy or a subxiphoid approach . |
| 2 | In fact , trade unions may seek to achieve their objectives not only by collective bargaining but also by lobbying the legislature , or by a more fundamental form of political action aimed at transforming society . |
| 3 | It could have been caused by extensive lava flows or by a more extreme form of the sort of surface plasticity seen in many of the oldest surviving features . |
| 4 | Consent can not be given by a child , for example , or by a severely subnormal individual . |
| 5 | They were drafted individually , as opposed to many letters that used common forms , most likely by the chancellor himself or by a very senior notary , and were sent closed , which meant that the bulla and the cords were used not just to authenticate document but to close and seal it up . |
| 6 | There is a plausible consistency about a well-developed derivational argument ( for examples see pp. 96–9 ) that can not be gainsaid except by a more inclusive one , for most such theses are not open to a direct test . |
| 7 | The arrangement was typical of their nine-month-old marriage , sustained less by compatible interests than by a carefully negotiated series of concessions . |
| 8 | This equation is estimated over the whole sample period rather than by a more complicated rolling regression technique which would allow the parameters to change each quarter as new information became available . |
| 9 | Historie can be seen as describing the past as past , and as fragmentarily reconstructed by the detached , scholarly and scientific method of the historian , ; Geschichte as describing a past which in some fashion also impinges upon and involves the present , a past which must be approached via subjective commitment rather than by a purely objective analysis of a more neutral kind . |
| 10 | And its aims travel in the same direction , albeit by a slightly different strategic route . |
| 11 | Second , and more crucial , the principle of paying dependants ' allowances to the wives of men in the armed forces was carried over , albeit by a very reluctant government , into unemployment benefit . |
| 12 | This ‘ UNO government ’ — as the authors acknowledge — was selected by the Nicaraguan people albeit by a fairly narrow margin . |
| 13 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
| 14 | This belief was supported by an equally passionate belief in the triumph of spiritual over material forces , and by a rather ill-defined theology of divinely generated social progress . |
| 15 | The near and next near contracts were generally mispriced in the same direction , and by a roughly similar amount . |
| 16 | Portrayed on its appointment even by a relatively objective observer as lacking in heavyweights and by a more critical backbencher as yesterday 's men and the C team , the team disappointed many . |
| 17 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 18 | A vote was taken on whether she should be re-instated , and by a very narrow margin it was agreed that she should . |
| 19 | ‘ Fashion Mad ’ , it was titled , and this one was not written by a celebrated style pundit , but by a previously unrecognised talent called Associated Press . |
| 20 | Similarly , the earlier threat of Junius contains an implicit defence of monarchy : a revolution may overthrow the Hanoverians , Junius had threatened , but he then implied that the Hanoverians would be replaced , not by Jacobinism , but by a more benevolent , or weaker , monarchy . |
| 21 | IT 's not only student recruiters who head for Singapore — students themselves are going , but by a more arduous route than British Airways ! |
| 22 | Another complaint was the waste of police time in court , but by a relatively straightforward change in the law — to allow certain evidence to be produced by sworn statement without the witness having to appear personally — it could be eliminated at a stroke . |
| 23 | And these are terminated , not by deliberation and interpretation , but by a relatively sudden and unstructured event like the gestalt switch . |
| 24 | It was a false dawn , replaced soon after by a now starless night that was blacker than the previous hours . |
| 25 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |