Example sentences of "[adv] by the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |
| 2 | Somehow that made the kidnap all the more obscene : as if the little family , broken yet strangely bound together by the same tragedy , had not suffered enough . |
| 3 | As with all so-called movements , an anti-movement is created instantaneously by the same audience . |
| 4 | So by the same token , I assume , building societies are also starting paying something over inflation rates , issued ? |
| 5 | Although the argument has been used that the proposed primary school will increase traffic , it will not do so by the same volume . |
| 6 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 7 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 8 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 9 | Bilingualism arises when two or more languages are used alternately by the same speaker . |
| 10 | On fine evenings in summer , we always took a walk after church , usually by the same route , which was up St. Martin 's Lane and Fowlers Hill to Milford Hollow . |
| 11 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 12 | The clearing banks used to change their interest rates on advances and deposits automatically by the same amount that Bank rate changed . |
| 13 | You believe we were attacked for the same reason and probably by the same person . |
| 14 | Everything was a dangerous practice though by the same rule . |
| 15 | No convincing reason has been given for treating onshore and offshore workers differently — often by the same company . |
| 16 | In the Lutheran lands the ‘ spiritual song ’ was cultivated with the same variety of treatment , often by the same composer . |
| 17 | A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company . |
| 18 | The counter is more likely than not to be manufactured by an enemy country , but it could be manufactured by the same country , even by the same company ! |
| 19 | The stylistic difference was not so much between Lutheran and Catholic as between settings of German words and settings of Latin ones , even by the same composer : e.g. Senfl 's ‘ Ewiger Gott ’ , conditioned by the hymn-text , and his ‘ purely ’ musical , exquisite ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ based , like Josquin 's ‘ Stabat mater ’ , on the chanson tenor ‘ Comme femme ’ . |
| 20 | Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman . |
| 21 | The boat lunges forward and yet almost by the same token lunges back again . |
| 22 | If that is so , then by the same reason , if a DSS officer is ignorant of the past benefit system , that does not justify his preventing a person from obtaining retrospective entitlement to benefit . |
| 23 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |
| 24 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 25 | For the most part they are confined there by the same spell which draws the magic to Ulthuan , but some things manage to find their way down to ravage the lands below . |
| 26 | If a Request is sent to an authority which is not competent to execute it , it must be sent forthwith to the correct authority , either by the former authority direct , or by the Central Authority . |
| 27 | Return to Kreuzlingen either by the same route , or extend your run to Wil , then turn north for Weinfelden and Kreuzlingen . |
| 28 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 29 | Shortly before the fateful journey to Greece he begins to be overcome once again by the same sensation . |
| 30 | No , I 've had 2 other books published er previously by the same publishers , er one was in Berkshire , one was in Hampshire , very much along the same sort of lines , er I think the longest walk I did probably would be about sort of 7 or 8 miles with those , er just as , you know , er the walks in , in , in this particular book are no more than 7 or 8 miles . |