Example sentences of "[det] [subord] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Edward pushed forward the bounds of secular authority usually in reaction to some clerical move or in defence of the needs and customs of royal government ; but as much as by the king this boundary was advanced by his subjects , whether suing for their individual rights and interests through the king 's courts or acting as royal justices , and not a few of these aggressive subjects were in fact clergy themselves .
2 The range of choices which are made available to the child may not be determined by the adult so much as by the nature of the interactions which are jointly established between adult and child .
3 The consequences of technical change are influenced at least as much as by the objectives that managers seek to achieve in introducing change .
4 I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone .
5 See I do n't see erm them shifting very much for that because by the time you 've got a bloke out paid his wages , paid for the the erm skip shifter , transporter you know .
6 They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines .
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