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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Still worse , her mind was recurrently invaded now by carnal fantascies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 10 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |
| 11 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | School cleaning in Lincolnshire is already carried out by private contractors . |
| 16 | Since we know that the periodicity of some variables is longer than the monitoring already carried out by human beings , we must make use of surrogate or proxy variables to extend our range of knowledge ( such as via tree rings , palynology , oxygen isotope ratios from ice cores and geomorphological evidence of environmental change ) ; |
| 17 | They are not suitable instruments for exploratory research , which is best carried out by in-depth investigation of a small number of speakers . |
| 18 | Examination and determination : The government should acknowledge that the handling of asylum applications is best carried out by qualified interviewers with knowledge of conditions in the applicants ' country . |
| 19 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 20 | It began to rain , and his heart sank , for the book was a valuable one , laboriously copied out by inspired monks . |
| 21 | . Well I expect we ought to go over , do some work got you a loaf , but I did n't get nothing else , if we just pop round by Swiss Bakery . |
| 22 | It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over . |
| 23 | ( Further , that is , to the fall already brought about by recent recessionary trends . ) |
| 24 | While this gets them both young and older females there is a price to pay , since big harems are the least stable and most easily taken over by other males . |
| 25 | He bought companies for cash , raised by issuing shares that were largely taken up by financial institutions . |
| 26 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 27 | It was soon taken up by other French writers , many of whom were attracted by its reminiscences of the Greek phalanx of classical times , and a prolonged controversy between the advocates of the new system and those of the traditional line formation developed . |
| 28 | The population of aphids is normally kept down by other animals that feed on them . |
| 29 | We have already established that conflict is best handled not by clever lips for healthy friendships , but by self-understanding , well-practised interpersonal skills for listening and the resolving of differences , and the careful application of God 's principles for the specific areas of life and experience in which we find ourselves . |
| 30 | It is normally controlled dually by psychogenic effect from the forebrain and by reflex effect direct from the spinal cord , but the two effects can work independently . |