Example sentences of "[coord] by a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ICD lead sytems can be inserted by median sternotomy at the time of coronary or valve surgery or by a more limited left lateral thoracotomy or a subxiphoid approach .
2 In fact , trade unions may seek to achieve their objectives not only by collective bargaining but also by lobbying the legislature , or by a more fundamental form of political action aimed at transforming society .
3 It could have been caused by extensive lava flows or by a more extreme form of the sort of surface plasticity seen in many of the oldest surviving features .
4 Consent can not be given by a child , for example , or by a severely subnormal individual .
5 They were drafted individually , as opposed to many letters that used common forms , most likely by the chancellor himself or by a very senior notary , and were sent closed , which meant that the bulla and the cords were used not just to authenticate document but to close and seal it up .
6 In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all .
7 This belief was supported by an equally passionate belief in the triumph of spiritual over material forces , and by a rather ill-defined theology of divinely generated social progress .
8 The near and next near contracts were generally mispriced in the same direction , and by a roughly similar amount .
9 Portrayed on its appointment even by a relatively objective observer as lacking in heavyweights and by a more critical backbencher as yesterday 's men and the C team , the team disappointed many .
10 Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave .
11 A vote was taken on whether she should be re-instated , and by a very narrow margin it was agreed that she should .
12 ‘ Fashion Mad ’ , it was titled , and this one was not written by a celebrated style pundit , but by a previously unrecognised talent called Associated Press .
13 Similarly , the earlier threat of Junius contains an implicit defence of monarchy : a revolution may overthrow the Hanoverians , Junius had threatened , but he then implied that the Hanoverians would be replaced , not by Jacobinism , but by a more benevolent , or weaker , monarchy .
14 IT 's not only student recruiters who head for Singapore — students themselves are going , but by a more arduous route than British Airways !
15 Another complaint was the waste of police time in court , but by a relatively straightforward change in the law — to allow certain evidence to be produced by sworn statement without the witness having to appear personally — it could be eliminated at a stroke .
16 And these are terminated , not by deliberation and interpretation , but by a relatively sudden and unstructured event like the gestalt switch .
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