Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since nobody on the summit of the Ben required a ticking off , except perhaps by the fashion police , it was back on to the tourist path for the descent . |
| 2 | In the main , he said , the process of unit cleaning and mess staff being employed by contractors rather than directly by the MoD , had gone smoothly . |
| 3 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 4 | But because interest rates were expected to drop gradually over the coming 12 months , the view was that by early 1991 confidence would have returned , volumes picked up and prices started to lift — even if only by the inflation rate . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Despite the national outcries that Cathy and other films engendered , the scale of the problem today seems to be greater than ever — if only by the sight of the homeless we see camped in the streets of our cities . ’ |
| 6 | For he had done so , if only by the manner of his speech . |
| 7 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 8 | It should be emphasised again that this last situation will occur only very seldom , because usually by the time the buyer gets possession of the goods risk will have passed to him and , if the goods perish after risk has passed to the buyer , that will not frustrate the contract . |
| 9 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 10 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |
| 11 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 12 | Alexei stared out of the open end of the room , awed as always by the view . |
| 13 | Stronger than its danger , there arises out of the couplet a sense of the nobility of man , and a grand magnitude that lies throughout the passage of time and whose power , when harnessed , as now by the poet , renders all things glorious and reassuring . |
| 14 | Corner goes in deep Pearce getting up well and Ward got up better than anyone and good safe hands as well by the keeper . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |