Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A murdering Fascist , ’ I cried and Richard took me gently by the shoulders and pushed me towards the door . |
| 2 | Before she got a word out Guy seized her gently by the shoulders and turned her around , so that he stood between her and Ralf . |
| 3 | Transit passage is to be enjoyed by ‘ all ships and aircraft ’ not merely by the ships and aircraft of States parties . |
| 4 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 5 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |
| 6 | There was silence for a moment , punctuated only by the grunts and wheezes of the two ancient dames , until Gertrude said : |
| 7 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 8 | These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes . |
| 9 | the guardians in Poplar and other Unions with high rates of unemployment were constrained from paying out-door relief not only by the regulations but by the fact that such payments would have to be financed by the ratepayers of the Union , most of whom were low paid . |
| 10 | When Henry Homer wrote this in 1767 the canal age was in its infancy , but he predicted that not only by the turnpikes but with the aid of " an even more valuable project of increasing inland navigation , a facility of communication is soon likely to be established from every part of the Island to the sea and from the several places on it to each other " . |
| 11 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 12 | Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] . |
| 13 | The garment leaves the front of the body bare , and clings tightly to the parts it does cover , marked only by the hems and a tiny free hang below the elbows . |
| 14 | The rise of Fascism was welcomed at the time , not only by the Italians but by many others , including the British Prime Minister , Baldwin , and Winston Churchill , who probably saw in the movement a bulwark against Bolshevism . |
| 15 | I slept fitfully but well enough , disturbed only by the comings and goings of my companions . |
| 16 | Since being in Norway , he has been used to stud not only by the Norwegians but also by the top Swedish kennel Faunus , which is owned and run by Gun Berquist . |
| 17 | In the former the interests of workpeople are to be protected not only by the unions but also by the state and the Party . |
| 18 | In magnificent mountain scenery , the country 's capital of Kathmandu straddles a pinnacle in a tumble of ancient palaces and temples , encroached upon only by the trees and greenery which dot the scene . |
| 19 | On the first floor , he has devised one large empty space , its two side walls an uninterrupted 200 feet in length , broken only by the staircases and other services springing through its centre . |
| 20 | They were no longer shading their eyes , and the terrace was now lit only by the candles and the open door into the small sitting-room . |
| 21 | For the moment it was immaterial ; but it was symptomatic of the difficulties which would face the claims of Canterbury when they were opposed , not only by the canons and archbishops of York , but by the papal Curia , and — during Anselm 's lifetime — also by the king . |
| 22 | As someone destroyed daily by the taunts and jeers of others he would now have the ability to destroy someone else in his turn . |
| 23 | ‘ Furtherance ’ was to be tested objectively by the courts as well as subjectively by reference to the defendants ' intentions . |
| 24 | We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned . |
| 25 | How long before she gets eaten away by the meths and dissolves into dust blown by the wind ? |
| 26 | As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported . |
| 27 | Long-firm fraudsters seem to get treated more leniently by the police and the legal system than do ‘ conventional ’ criminals . |
| 28 | During the last century they came to be conducted largely by the police and lawyers instructed by them , who were replaced for most purposes by the Crown Prosecution Service in 1986 . |
| 29 | In Germany , too , the clergy were distrusted still by the workers as ‘ black police ’ and the most powerful Socialist movement in Europe was avowedly antireligious . |
| 30 | The useless girl that I was might have grown without diversion , etiolated and bland like a stalk of grass under a stone , from those early days , represented still by the dolls and bears that lay on the cupboard shelves . |