Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] by [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contributions from Squadron members are related in the order that they joined the unit and make for fascinating reading , especially as raids and operations inter-weave with different opinions coming to the fore — Alan has added occasional notes only by way of factual back-up , ensuring the originality of the contributor 's writing . |
| 2 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 3 | The importance of their being formed at random can not be overemphasized ; control groups start life the same as experimental groups in all respects simply by virtue of having been formed at random . |
| 4 | Cromwell had seen that while a monarch with some claim to divine authority could rule three separate kingdoms separately by virtue of his three separate crowns , a republic had to have a parliament that united all of the British Isles . |
| 5 | After this incuvation , 50 µl of substrate solution was added and the reaction stopped 10 minutes later by addition of 50 µl 20% acetic acid . |
| 6 | Hydro-electric power will still be the main source of renewable energy in the year 2000 and will also be responsible for most of the growth in usage of renewable sources mainly by virtue of projects in South America . |
| 7 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 8 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 9 | The buyer however may lose the right to reject the goods either by waiver of that right or by ‘ acceptance ’ of the goods . |
| 10 | A ‘ Mills and Boon Romance ’ is defined in editorial terms more by virtue of what it is not , than by its own narrative conventions , which are unstated ; ‘ we reject anything that is obviously not a romance ’ , the PR office states , but when pressed on what constitutes ‘ romance ’ , their response is ‘ no murder , blood , guts or gore , and nothing pornographic either ; there 's nothing romantic about pornography ’ . |
| 11 | The core of such analysis is that sentences with deictic elements and terms encode propositions only by virtue of the specific contexts in which they occur . |
| 12 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 13 | All things being equal , small animals need less brain than larger ones and large brains might be different from small ones simply by virtue of their size ( Russell 1978 ) . |
| 14 | While Ambrose earns wickets for his colleagues merely by dint of his presence at the other end , one timely intrusion at Chelmsford dispelled any notions of sloth . |