Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 , ESP also added testing of submersible motors to their list of services — a list that has since grown by the addition of testing protectors , PSIs and cable . |
| 2 | Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) . |
| 3 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 4 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
| 5 | John Wriglesworth , the housing analyst at UBS , a Swiss bank , estimates that the stock of unsold homes has already fallen by a third over the past year . |
| 6 | Flour has already risen by 15 per cent since then whilst animal feed has already risen by a similar amount and is expected to increase further . |
| 7 | It will probably be passed alto to a small committee of the European Parliament , but the Parliament has already voted by a large majority in favour of a ban and a further reference may be deemed unnecessary . |
| 8 | As far as I know , none of my ill-starred relations has ever died by the gun . |
| 9 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 10 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 11 | But Broderick looks almost depressed by the tedium of it all , so bored he does n't quite know what to do with himself . |
| 12 | Investment in training has increased and our respondents believe that the quality of their audits has significantly improved by a better focusing of audit effort and improved recording of audit evidence . |
| 13 | However , the consumer has certainly gained by the liberalisation of the supply and maintenance of telephone equipment , introduced by the 1981 Telecommunications Act , which has resulted in lower prices , wider choice and improved products . |
| 14 | The 'obby 'oss itself is a huge circular black ‘ skirt ’ with a sharp-beaked head which whirls around supported by a team of dancers . |
| 15 | Most parents do not have a large lump sum to invest and have to rely on regular savings plans sometimes boosted by a modest capital investment . |
| 16 | Despite this , the vast red sandstone bulk of the cathedral towers above the severely damaged and consequently modern city , the impression it creates little affected by the trolley bus wires which cross the tourists ' line of vision . |
| 17 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 18 | Beebe 's experiment suggests , however , that " convergence " may involve a kind of personation — adopting what the speaker believes to be the speech characteristics of the interlocutor , rather than " mirroring " speech forms already used by the interlocutor . |
| 19 | Theories are construed as speculative and tentative conjectures or guesses freely created by the human intellect in an attempt to overcome problems encountered by previous theories and to give an adequate account of the behaviour of some aspects of the world or universe . |
| 20 | Roger is now settled at Birmingham University , or rather at the ‘ University of Central England ’ and seems rather overcome by the amount of work expected of him , but has otherwise fallen on his feet . |
| 21 | He seems genuinely upset by the charges and pauses as he considers an answer . |
| 22 | THE PUBLIC AS as well as the practising artist , whether amateur or professional , seems always intrigued by the ways that another artist has arrived at being professionally and financially independent . |
| 23 | ‘ Normally there could be no question that this was an ordinary weekly tenancy , duly determinable by a week 's notice , but the parties in the rent-book agreed to a term which appears there expressed by the words ‘ furnished for duration , ’ which must mean the duration of the war . |
| 24 | He feels so restricted by the screenplay that he has to break away from the apartment at every opportunity . |
| 25 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 26 | She feels deeply rejected by a man who was in fact very shy , and apparently found it extremely hard to express himself affectionately . |
| 27 | However , as to the first point it does seem clear that changes once made by a Greek artist were assimilated by others with extraordinary celerity . |
| 28 | A policy taken out shortly before a holiday commences immediately followed by a claim under this Section requires careful investigation . |
| 29 | Despite a fall after the loss of Gascony , exports again increased by the 1470s . |
| 30 | On April 25 , 1989 , the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court ordered the release of 32 members of the Youth Congress ( I ) who were jailed for contempt after a demonstration in the State Assembly in March following remarks allegedly made by the General Secretary of the ruling Telugu Desam Party , Ashok Gajapathi Raju , that Rajiv Gandhi was responsible for the death of his mother Indira and had benefited from it . |