Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ignites the imagination , nevertheless , with glancing observations of Skye ‘ … so much indented by inlets of the Sea , that there is no part of it removed from the water by more than six miles ’ . |
| 2 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 3 | Engels 's argument is clear : the Germans were able to vanquish the Romans because their society was not so internally corrupted by class . |
| 4 | From the Villa Elena you can see no fewer than eleven extinct volcanos and a distant view of the sea , only slightly marred by smoke belching from an industrial plant two miles away . |
| 5 | To suppose that it can is an assumption long ago undermined by Hume , that one can infer from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ from purely descriptive premisses to a prescriptive conclusion . |
| 6 | The language of " compensation " long ago introduced by G.B. Gray , falls under the same criticism , and so too perhaps the use of " expletive " by R. Austerlitz . |
| 7 | We feel we can go on eating and drinking and living for today , just mildly titillated by guilt . |
| 8 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 9 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 10 | So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced . |
| 11 | As to the impact of procedural rules upon substantive law , I turn to the doctrine , now partly exploded by Caldwell , of specific and basic intent . |