Example sentences of "and by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commanche Run responded courageously to pressure from his jockey , and by the final furlong he and Baynoun , running equally gamely , had the race between them . |
| 2 | On the morning of the 28th the Emperor arrived at the tiny railway station accompanied by the Empress and by the 14-year-old Prince Imperial , who , like his father , was wearing military uniform , since he was destined also to go to Metz . |
| 3 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 4 | International conferences could provide the vehicle for international co-operation and co-ordination , but apart from the few international conferences organized by the British Library and by the International Association of Technological University Libraries ( IATUL ) there have not been many more than a dozen , and none of these has focused on the need for international co-ordination ; although they have kindled a certain amount of international co.operation . |
| 5 | Great strain was placed on top management by the process of centralisation , implied by nationalisation , and by the luxuriant growth of committees to develop new policies . |
| 6 | Our shopping and baking habits , our home record-keeping and correspondence , local and worldwide , our legal , medical and insurance affairs , our most intimate communications , could all be encompassed by our home data bank with its living connections to systems in the outside world ; and by the two-way nature of those links and the ingenuity of the ‘ hacker ’ or by pure mischance all our secrets could be opened to the world . |
| 7 | Later scientists thought that a succession of ‘ heat waves ’ arising from radioactive decay in subsurface materials , and by the gravitational collapse of the solid lithosphere , was responsible for sweating out most of the water vapour . |
| 8 | One hundred pieces , including some older ones , have been chosen by the director of the Fukushima Prefectural Museum , Mr Mitsuhiko Hasebe and by the chief researcher of the Tokyo National Museum , Mr Kazunobu Nakanodo . |
| 9 | Mr Smith is also backed by two members of the Shadow Cabinet , Sedgefield MP Tony Blair and South Shields MP David Clark , and by the Chief Whip , Derek Foster ( Bishop Auckland ) . |
| 10 | To assist him he is supported by leading and junior counsel , the Treasury solicitor or senior lawyers from his office , and by the Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 11 | However , the inclusion of an explanation or justification of a clause may increase the chances of the clause being regarded as reasonable , both by the court and by the other party to the contract . |
| 12 | The idea of compulsory producer organisations is supported by individual farmers and by the two industry bodies representing producers in the Highlands and Islands and on Shetland . |
| 13 | It was not a final closure and by the new century a younger generation was challenging the social-purity consensus . |
| 14 | Already considerable improvements in papers in language and mathematics have been effected by the West African Examination Council 's Test Development and Research Unit , and by the Regional Testing Centre in Malawi . |
| 15 | The receipt of this letter threw Clara into ecstasy , for she had indeed observed his comings and goings , and had been suitably taken by his solid , rocky , regular features and by the dashing abandon of his hair style . |
| 16 | [ the mark-up ] is kept down to modest size by the existence of many independent firms within the corporate sector ; by the availability , elsewhere in the corporate sector , of reasonably close substitutes for the products of any one firm ; and by the perennial threat of new entry into any field in which the monopoly mark-up is large . |
| 17 | The Magyars had expansionist aims and by the thirteenth century they had missionized much territory and brought Croatia within their kingdom . |
| 18 | She knows that wanting to look good , or sexy , does n't mean she 's ‘ asking for it ’ , but that belief was shaken by a recent incident , and by the overprotective reaction of her brother to her when she told him about it . |
| 19 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 20 | The model has been developed in the late 1970s by a new wave of American elite theorists ( Krasner , 1978 ; Skocpol , 1979 ; Nordlinger , 1981 ) influenced by both the political realism of classical elite theory and by the neo-Marxist focus upon the relative autonomy of the capitalist state ( pp. 243 — 6 ) . |
| 21 | It is used by the Conclave of Cardinals to choose a Pope , by the Democratic and Republican Conventions in the United States to choose a presidential candidate , and by the Labour Party both to choose a Leader and to elect local officers . |
| 22 | However , reports said that NPFL fighters had only intensified their fire , and by the following day full-scale fighting was going on , with Nigerian jets , artillery and warships attacking rebel positions . |
| 23 | They subsequently turned to the duke , and by the following year Moresby was installed as Gloucester 's steward at Penrith , with his younger brother James acting as bailiff . |
| 24 | They subsequently turned to the duke , and by the following year Moresby was installed as Gloucester 's steward at Penrith , with his younger brother James acting as bailiff . |
| 25 | The death of the rebel leader Wat Tyler on 15 June changed the situation , and by the following week the authorities were again in control in the South-east . |
| 26 | December 1934 , Italian and Ethiopian force came into conflict in the border area of Ethiopia and by the following summer , Mussolini was making extravagant demands of Ethiopia . |
| 27 | On August 12 a clear sky gave the French duo their chance , and by the following evening they were at 6900 metres , having climbed 1200 metres of mixed ground reminiscent of the north face of Les Courtes in the Chamonix Alps . |
| 28 | The European Communities ( EC ) were represented by European Commission President Jacques Delors and by the current President of the EC Council of Ministers , Ruud Lubbers ( the Prime Minister of the Netherlands ) . |
| 29 | While cases remained open , re-assessment for one of the same group of services took place to a more marked extent in the generic team and by the individual specialist than in the specialist team . |
| 30 | In the event , the scope for major change is always limited by political realities , and by the simple truth that there is no bottomless reservoir of potential Cabinet material among ministers in waiting . |