Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 2 | Body language is extensive and can be conveyed by the attitude or the whole body or just by a small part of it . |
| 3 | Early work is often missing from an artist 's oeuvre , while student work or juvenilia may be saved only by chance or possibly by a devoted family . |
| 4 | Should the head be removed accidentally by a farmer 's hedge cutter , or purposely by a political hooligan , the stout stalk can be recycled . |
| 5 | And so the multifaceted style of Elgar 's own readings was absorbed directly or indirectly by a new generation of interpreters — many of them non-British — and the way they painted the music in all its aspects struck a new chord with modern listeners . |
| 6 | The rest of the known world was mainly dominated directly or indirectly by a few European states . |
| 7 | At her considerable best — when her physical angularity , her fluttery , melodramatic flounces and her inclination to treat the most unpretentious line of dialogue as a conversation-stopper were tempered either by a real affinity with the role in question or else by a witty , self-deprecating sense of her own absurdity in it — she remained one of the most consistently spell-binding of Hollywood stars . |
| 8 | Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet . |
| 9 | The historical and social claim to professional autonomy is counterproductive in an environment where pedagogic autonomy is increasingly inhibited , entry to teaching is controlled by DES policy and not by a professional body , conditions of employment are nationally prescribed and major management initiatives , such as staff development , appraisal , recruitment and promotion , are increasingly subject to DES guidelines . |
| 10 | For the Formalists originality is constituted only by a reworking of the available devices and not by a personal vision in the lived experience of writers . |
| 11 | The frequency of sessions should be determined by the patient 's needs and not by a rigid ( e.g. weekly ) schedule . |
| 12 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
| 13 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |
| 14 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 15 | Sometimes a tooth will become decayed which will need to be extracted with an anaesthetic and thus by a veterinary surgeon . |
| 16 | Between them is a third cell , represented inside by a stone-vaulted unit and outside by a strong buttress on the north side . |
| 17 | They were soon identified as potential customers by tradesmen , bankers , building societies , and insurance companies , then by streetcar and railway companies , by the publishers of newspapers , journals , and cheap novels , and finally by a whole army of showmen whose task it was to inveigle the masses into circuses , fairgrounds , peepshows , roller-skating pavilions , theatres , and sporting fixtures . |
| 18 | This was achieved partly by a classical series of experiments to study the action of acetylcholine and atropine on their targets ( receptors ) in ‘ simple ’ test objects such as the isolated heart of the frog , and partly by a painstaking and even-handed re-evaluation of the welter of information of very variable quality that was already available . |
| 19 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 20 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 21 | The SAS was to be augmented by a number of men from 1 Special Service Regiment , who were untrained in desert raiding , and also by a naval party and even two tanks . |
| 22 | A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways . |
| 23 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 24 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 25 | Rather it was carried out smoothly and efficiently by a part-time ‘ Glasgow housewife ’ . |
| 26 | Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 27 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 28 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 29 | He died 5 January 1737 , ‘ suddenly , of a fit of apoplexy , as he was sitting in his chair at his house in Bartlett 's Buildings , Holborn ’ , and was succeeded first by his son Erasmus [ q.v. ] , the author of several treatises on economics , and then by a younger son , John , ‘ a notorious Jacobite ’ . |
| 30 | On both occasions the violation of the maxim , in contrast to earlier instances we have examined , is deliberate , and asserts his wish , indirectly and politely at first and then by a bald on-record demand , to leave the speech situation altogether , a fact which strongly implicates his insecurity in it . |