Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | A compromise was forged on the divisive issue of East Timor , the Portuguese colony forcibly annexed by Indonesia in 1976 . |
| 3 | The England captain , who had an outstanding match , is eventually halted by Aherne after a powerful midfield burst — but not before Geoghegan and Matthews are sucked in … |
| 4 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 5 | This provincial brumaire was bitterly criticized by civilians of the Central Junta : Jovellanos could neither forgive nor forget Romana 's ‘ tyranny ’ . |
| 6 | The handling of the whole referendum affair was widely regarded by commentators as a humiliation for Tudjman 's administration . |
| 7 | Finally , Mr. Langley submitted that there was a strong presumption against the court having made an order which could have the effect of overriding or emasculating section 39 , and that it would be wrong to construe the injunction as being inconsistent with powers expressly given by Parliament to the Bank of England . |
| 8 | Progress towards political reform under Nguyen Van Linh ( then secretary-general of the CPV ) " s programme of renovation ( doi moi ) was effectively halted by apprehension within the higher echelons of the CPV over the momentous events taking place in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during 1989-91 . |
| 9 | Prison Department divisions were widely criticized by governors for appearing to operate in isolation , each pursuing their own areas of interest without regard to the priorities of other divisions and establishment needs . |
| 10 | His journey took him through Austrasia , where he was hospitably received by members of the aristocracy . |
| 11 | The data reveal that most of the questions and tasks successfully undertaken by pupils in the lowest third of the target pupils involve basic processes of counting and calculation carried out on paper , mentally , and with a calculator ; direct readings from tables of data ; recognition and drawing of familiar shapes ; and some visualization tasks . |
| 12 | The Big Houses in the district were now mostly inhabited by people of his uncle 's generation . |
| 13 | As between themselves the authority of individual partners to bind the firm can be properly circumscribed by agreement in effective variation of the basic principle set out in this section . |
| 14 | There followed a long wrangle over Benedict 's future , which Sir John Merchiston eventually won by virtue of the fact that Robert Beckenham 's new wife was delivered of a boy . |
| 15 | Deaf people are effectively discouraged by regulations from training as teachers of the deaf . |
| 16 | Widely attacked by homophobes as a threat to family life , the report , in places , makes chilling reading — 12 per cent beaten up at school because of their sexuality ; 10 per cent sacked from work ; 19 per cent admitting to attempted suicide . |
| 17 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 18 | In I 977 , there was another strike : the day after the workers occupied the factory , they were forcibly evicted by members of the armed forces , the National Guard and the Treasury Police , who used tear-gas bombs against them . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it has been suggested in favour of the present law that ‘ it emphasises the reality that sexual violence is predominantly committed by men against women ; it underlines the protection of the sexual autonomy of women . ’ |
| 20 | The Worcestershire bowlers and fielders began to find their form when Notts skipper , Tim Robinson was acrobatically caught by Neale off Illingworth for 5 . |
| 21 | Consciousness appears to be almost wholly dominated by language as the medium of thought and expression , so that the entire surface of cognitive processes and voluntary responses appears to be channelled through language . |
| 22 | In the following chapter we will examine several aspects of their lives and attitudes , some of which are often loosely grouped by historians as " popular culture " . |
| 23 | Black smoke gushed out of open doors and through windows and roofs only to be suddenly consumed by tongues of fire that licked heavenwards , raising up their flaming fangs like the arms of satanic dancers placating some obscene god . |
| 24 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 25 | From this base he mounted a successful practice executing public works and speculative building on the grandest scale , only halted by bankruptcy in the financial crash of 1793 . |
| 26 | Clearly much would depend on whether Knott could stay with Greig but , after nightwatchman Underwood went , Knott and Snow both followed quickly , all dismissed by Daniel inside four overs . |
| 27 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 28 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , up to 50 km long and intended primarily for catching tuna , squid and pink salmon , but fiercely criticized by environmentalists as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of marine mammals and other sea creatures . |
| 29 | The Emperor , popularly supposed to be immortal , only endured by virtue of adamantine , anguished courage and will power . |
| 30 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |