Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 2 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 3 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 4 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 5 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 6 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 7 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 8 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 9 | He got his arse all torn away by that bloody dog . ’ |
| 10 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 11 | Turning slightly , he stabbed the gun barrel with its fat , cylindrical silencer into the crack between Tessa 's thighs ; she could have only moved away by uncrossing her legs . |
| 12 | Still worse , her mind was recurrently invaded now by carnal fantascies . |
| 13 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 14 | And these tiny , mullioned windows in their deep embrasures which let in the light so strangely , shadows like dark brown varnish suddenly filtered through by thin beams of light which might be any colour from silver to amber . |
| 15 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 16 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 17 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |
| 18 | Local writer Thomas Hurtley ( who also , by the way , thought the Dales peaks at least as high as those in the Alps ) called Gordale a " Stupendous Pavilion of Sable Rock apparently rent asunder by some dreadful although inscrutable elementary convulsion " . |
| 19 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 20 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 21 | Somewhat taken aback by this development I tried to explain why I accepted without reservation the account in Genesis to be correct , adding of course that I also accepted that there are genuine brothers and sisters in Christ who are evolutionists . |
| 22 | He was somewhat taken aback by this honour and we were quick to explain that this was the finest tribute that could be paid to both Normans . |
| 23 | A union will only come about by 1997 if a substantial majority of Community members agree it should . |
| 24 | The carrots , or tins , at the end of the walk were 200 tins of Pedigree Pal Partners dog food which were eagerly taken home by hungry dogs . |
| 25 | Wayne was so taken aback by this that it was a moment before he realised something else ; the hand that had touched the box had come away wet . |
| 26 | Another American artist , Rona Pondick , creates disturbing assemblages out of a mixture of materials ( for instance : a wooden beam , a row of white shoes and a cushion , all held together by frayed nylon cords , the ends of which spill onto the floor like white seaweed ) . |
| 27 | An avid traveller in Mediterranean lands and an early exponent of the use of audio-visual teaching aids ( using lantern slides in a lecture in 1929 ) , he was the only man to have led his bride from Church under an archway of History notebooks suddenly held aloft by two lines of boys from School . |
| 28 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 29 | The latter is a nine-month course normally undertaken only by those intending to enter the legal profession in Scotland . |
| 30 | The biggest of the East German firms already wound up by late October 1990 was the Dresden-based Pentacom , which had employed 5,600 mostly skilled workers to produce the hard-currency-earning Praktica camera , but was unable to survive commercially without state subsidies . |