Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent of the ‘ gap ’ thereby filled by coin evidence can be appreciated from a glance at any book on Hellenistic or Roman portraiture . |
| 2 | The case study illustrates that the implications of demographic trends can be modified by unforeseen economic events but they can also be successfully addressed by policy planning . |
| 3 | Many merely developed by ribbon expansion along existing streets , but others had additional planned elements added , as had happened earlier at Cambridge and Stamtord . |
| 4 | The Nature Conservancy Council reports that 10 per cent of its Sites of Special Scientific Interest are annually contaminated by spray drift . |
| 5 | Nitrification is higher under slash-and-burn regimes than under primary forest in southwest Venezuela and is apparently regulated by ammonium activity . |
| 6 | Managers long cushioned by state intervention become driven by production targets , not by the test of the market . |
| 7 | The committee agreed to inform the county council it had no objections to the proposal as long as the weighbridge was only used by landfill traffic and the pit only operated in the hours specified in the application . |
| 8 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
| 9 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 10 | I am not myself much enamoured by Process Theology , which is the technical name for what Birch is expounding here . |
| 11 | At the moment they are only selling by mail order and at Woodturning Supplies , 7 Parker Close , Elson , Gosport , Hampshire , ( 0705 ) 522032 . |
| 12 | The plan was fiercely condemned by prison reform and crime prevention campaigners and politicians as ‘ penal prep schools ’ . |
| 13 | Much bent by museum fatigue |
| 14 | Consequently an MdB is much less harassed by routine constituency casework than is a conscientious MP . |
| 15 | Insects , like all animals , are greatly affected by body temperature . |
| 16 | Only the valence levels are greatly affected by molecule formation , as this is where the bonding actually occurs . |
| 17 | Services were clearly less affected by import penetration than manufacturing ; and between 1955 and 1975 their share of the world total fell from 25 to 15 per cent , which compares very favourably with the performance of manufactured goods [ Sargent , 1979 ] . |
| 18 | All this is consistent with the absence of any effect of oil work in urban areas ( table II ) : rural post code sectors already supporting many construction workers ( and Highlands Region has one of the highest levels of such workers in Britain ) would be expected to be less affected by oil work than similar areas without such earlier ‘ exposure ’ ( that is , those in which the recent impact score was high ) . |
| 19 | The well known excess of leukaemia began around 1979 , at the same time as the increases found by this study in rural areas far removed from any nuclear installation — but all affected by population mixing associated with the oil industry . |
| 20 | It should be added that cultural formations are not only conditioned by class position , central though that is ; age , gender , ethnicity and nationality are also important . |
| 21 | Travelling in a first-class carriage , waited on hand and foot and endlessly interrupted by kind ticket inspectors who wanted to see if one was quite happy ! |
| 22 | The vagaries of history may lead the same States to favour each policy in turn according to changing circumstances : newly-independent States may resist being held bound by treaties entered into on their behalf , and therefore tend to favour the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine of succession , although their economic and technical interests may be better served by treaty continuity . |
| 23 | Perceptions of party chances were obviously influenced by opinion poll findings . |
| 24 | It is extraordinary how a nation so characterised by class difference should still be so timid about immortalising its own class struggles in place names . |
| 25 | Fear of domination by aliens , so encouraged by nation-state nationalism , will be replaced by an understanding of the ever-historical diversity of all human societies . |
| 26 | Rebecque , staying close to his master , gravely inspected one of the cannon almost as if he had never seen such an object before , then , suddenly afflicted by hay fever , he sneezed . |
| 27 | Ministerial power is somewhat counterbalanced by railway management 's control of internal information and by its own political resources . |
| 28 | The depth of the lysochine is basically controlled by water chemistry .. the P H and the concentration of carbonate in the water . |
| 29 | Although covered by thick Tertiary basalts and Lough Neagh Clay , its western margin has been successfully mapped by reconnaissance Vibroseis . |
| 30 | All the buildings , shops , inns , picturesque cottages , the larger houses — mostly built by cloth mill owners , Fen told her , were a joy to see , many dating from the fifteenth century when the wool trade had flourished . |