Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 2 | Its devotees felt badly let down by an earlier boom set off by ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ , a 1980 film starring John Travolta . |
| 3 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 4 | The initial research is generally a one-man job ; the production is often best carried out by an established firm . |
| 5 | Instead they are normally closed out by an offsetting sale or purchase beforehand . |
| 6 | His more general position is perhaps best summed up by an extract from the speech he made at 3.10 in the morning of 20 May 1992 during the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 7 | Statements by the Brazilian President , José Sarney Costa , promising government action to evict gold prospectors , or garimpeiros , from the Yanomami Indian reserve in the northern federal territory of Roraima [ see pp. 36459 ; 36794 ] were finally followed up by an eviction operation beginning on Jan. 4 , 1990 . |
| 8 | Although the electorate needed , and were given , a clear signal that Labour had changed , the policy review is , more importantly , the most comprehensive piece of sustained policy development ever carried out by an opposition party . |
| 9 | Maintenance of information in verbal memory is based on sub-vocal rehearsal of material held in a fading phonological store and it has been suggested that maintenance of spatial information in memory over short periods is also carried out by an active control process based on a response system . |
| 10 | But this shift was also brought about by an apparent consensus about education in the country as a whole . |
| 11 | However , the promoter , who preferred to remain anonymous , issued a statement to NME claiming : ‘ There is no objection raised by local promoters — far from it — promoters have been severely f—ed around by an ‘ artiste ’ who has no consideration for his fans or the people who have put work into this tour . |
| 12 | After cleaning , it was displayed in the department and immediately snapped up by an excited young Australian . |
| 13 | THE parents of a little boy whose nose was almost bitten off by an alsatian have called for the breed to be added to the dangerous dogs list . |
| 14 | After a year of this , he was then taken on by an Exeter dentist , a Mr. Groves , as a dental technician . |
| 15 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 16 | The bumbling nature of armoured animals is neatly summed up by an anecdote concerning a family of three-banded armadillos . |
| 17 | Those parts of the complex which were neither intact nor totally destroyed had been covered and converted to shelter equipment , and the central courtyard was almost completely sealed in by an open-sided marquee top supported on braced poles . |
| 18 | ‘ I am so closely blocked up by an army of Misfortunes , ’ he told Mary Evans in one of his increasingly fond letters , ‘ that really there is no passage left open for Mirth or any thing else . ’ |
| 19 | One of his passengers dropped the Cessna 's dinghy to the JetRanger 's pilot , who was subsequently picked up by an RAF SAR helicopter which took him to hospital in Blackpool suffering from hypothermia . |
| 20 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |