Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 3 | During deeper burial , the intergranular and intragranular pores have been partially or completely occluded by anhydrite cement at some localities ( Fig. 16b ) . |
| 4 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |
| 5 | As most of the decisions are now taken in Brussels and merely rubber-stamped by Westminster , just what is the point in voting ? |
| 6 | The handwriting was unfamiliar , and the letter had been addressed to Bracken Cottage and obviously redirected by Professor Wendell . |
| 7 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The first specimen to be formally described according to the rules laid down by Linnaeus ( and later codified by Strickland and others from 1842 on ) is the type , and these are carefully kept in great museums , which exchange duplicates after due comparison . |
| 9 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 10 | If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll . |
| 11 | His tactic was simple : he harried the coastline wherever it was not heavily guarded , and simply withdrew by sea when Frankish opposition appeared . |
| 12 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 13 | The earthworks of the village have always been known : they were recorded by the Ordnance Survey surveyors in the nineteenth century and then re-discovered by Maurice Beresford in the late 1940s . |
| 14 | He believed , for example , that Christ had been conceived in the normal way and then sanctified by God rather than being born of a virgin . |
| 15 | Elections were held in June 1973 but the assembly was first paralysed by the Protestant-led ‘ workers ’ strike' and then prorogued by Parliament . |
| 16 | The oscillator output is inverted by gate IC1a and then buffered by transistor TR2 , to illuminate light emitting diode D2 . |
| 17 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 18 | Sodium hypochlorite is also rapidly and completely inactivated by dirt and all other organic materials including detergents . |
| 19 | The suave personal manner and the bleached smile — the style pioneered by Kevin Keegan and currently apotheosized by Gary Lineker — ‘ the totalitarianism of the totally pleasant personality ’ in a phrase of Norman Mailer 's — these have paved the way for the FA 's new cash-rich , super-sanitized super league which will come into being next season . |
| 20 | There was a scientific hiatus and it took the Butt Report and the prodding of the C-in-C to trigger off an effort in this direction , GEE was an excellent start , but soon negated by jamming . |