Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far would Rock Hudson have got if his true proclivities , hidden so long by a succession of girlfriends provided by the studios , had been known ? |
| 2 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 3 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 4 | It 's the largest subject created so far by a foundry which specialises in works of art by sculptors from Britain and Europe . |
| 5 | It 's the largest subject created so far by a foundry which specialises in works of art by sculptors from Britain and Europe . |
| 6 | As Carol Jackson moved about in the kitchen she could hear the steady burble of conversation , punctuated every so often by a laugh . |
| 7 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 8 | Chasseguet-Smirgel ( 1985 ) suggests that a woman 's ego-ideal is constructed first by identification with the mother , and only then by a redefinition of herself as the father 's wife . |
| 9 | This shuttling back and forth between the personae could only be done so adroitly by a poet exceptionally sensitive to the status and function of pronouns . |
| 10 | She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them . |
| 11 | His greatest achievement was winning at Le Mans for Aston Martin in 1959 , but his racing career was ended soon afterwards by a recurrence of childhood heart problems . |
| 12 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 13 | Access to such sites is often obscure , possibly only by a footpath which may not be noticed at ground level . |
| 14 | The incentive to borrow was raised still further by a reduction in the costs of bankruptcy and an increase in market liquidity . |
| 15 | Horizontal equity is met more nearly by a wealth tax than by a higher income tax rate on unearned income ( income from property ) or than on income from work . |
| 16 | Until well into the eighteen forties , they did n't actually buy dresses , they bought lengths of cloth and had them made up , either by a member of the household — a servant perhaps , or more often by a dressmaker , either a couturier or the local dressmaker . |
| 17 | The motion can be characterized by a reptation time , or more accurately by a relaxation time , τ , that is a measure of the time required for a chain to escape completely from its tube . |
| 18 | Verbivore combines the fantastic ontological postulates of Amalgamemnon with the basically realistic postulates of Xorandor , creating a hybrid form which can be likened to magic realism as practised by many Spanish-American writers , and more recently by a number of British authors . |
| 19 | a swing of the pendulum away from uncritical acceptance of ‘ New Mathematics ’ programmes , sometimes manifest in overt political opposition to them ( Nigeria and Malawi ) , more commonly by a re-emphasis placed on the values and processes of basic numeracy , e.g. tables , measurement , number bonds ( Swaziland and Lesotho ) . |
| 20 | If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties . |
| 21 | The sky was still blue , the sun still shone , somewhere near by a lark gibbered away . |
| 22 | Motivated , it is widely believed , by a concern about the illiteracy of the growing electorate ( the franchise had been considerably widened in 1867 ) , but also undoubtedly by a recognition of a need for a better educated work force , Parliament provided that school boards , to set up state-financed schools , could be established where there was a clear educational need and the voluntary schools were insufficient in number . |
| 23 | Reaccreditation could be handled most convincingly by a body drawn from the caring and scientific professions , with additional publicly elected or appointed representatives . |
| 24 | The weather was quite warm and sunny and we found some superb over-night sites , often right by a beach with lovely views over bays , islands and headlands . |
| 25 | But in reality the particular focus of education is neither clear nor controllable ; rather there is a complex of objectives determined as best by a galaxy of interested parties — there is no real consensus . |
| 26 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 27 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 28 | Representation was most frequently by a friend or relative , or by a social worker , though there was a large unhelpful category labelled ‘ other ’ , which might well include welfare rights advisers . |
| 29 | In the present case we shall take the view that the perception of two distinct types of phrase here can be explained rather simply by a divergence of relation at the intensional level . |
| 30 | A row of eighteenth-century baroque merchants ' houses was interrupted half-way along by a steel and concrete structure . |