Example sentences of "and [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 2 | Amused by Mr Baker 's diplomatic skills , I composed a letter to Roald Dahl , and luckily by the end of July he had sent us a sensible letter of resignation . |
| 3 | Matthew Boulton lived close to his works at Soho ; but his son bought the estate and country house of Great Tew in Oxfordshire and went to and fro by the coach which is still preserved in the stables there . |
| 4 | Leaning back so that the chair creaked alarmingly , he held her watch up , dangling it to and fro by the strap , his expression neutral . |
| 5 | It is an attractive modern hotel , run pleasantly and professionally by the Sinclair family who originally came from Orkney . |
| 6 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 7 | Later one of the teachers noticed that Stephen had written a short piece about the provision of gas masks that concluded : ‘ No real gas attack ever took place and so by the middle of 1940 most people had stopped carrying their masks . ’ |
| 8 | They need not return all the way as they had come but could strike southwards up Jed Water and over to Hobkirk and so by the Note o' the Gate pass into Liddesdale . |
| 9 | The Canadian authorities , in the meantime , asked for forty-five cuts to be made , which Nicholson refused to do , and so by the end of 1971 the film had been shown only in selected cinemas in America and even there , the reaction had been mixed . |
| 10 | Local abolition committees spread in 1788 prompted by Clarkson 's visits and perhaps by the Manchester committee 's circular letter to other towns . |
| 11 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 12 | And down by the water side it there 's a a sort of a ruin just you can see it and he said that was where they stayed , a little monastery there . |
| 13 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 14 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 15 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 16 | Bundles of entries may only be transferred to higher level groups and only by the leader of the higher group . |
| 17 | Perhaps the Minister can clarify whether the provisions of the Bill will be operated specifically and only by the transport police . |
| 18 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 19 | Judged by the highest standards there may have some stiffness in the rhythm , some slack articulation of the words and some raucous tone from certain voices , yet , urged on by the dynamic playing of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra , and especially by the cohorts of percussion , the singing was exhilarating . |
| 20 | Pressure in this sense was exercised by the customers , and especially by the customer with whose wife the employee had an affair . |
| 21 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 22 | When we adhered to the gold standard , the House had no say in monetary policy because the money supply was dictated arbitrarily and objectively by the volume of gold discovered in the world . |
| 23 | " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said . |
| 24 | However , a report in Le Monde on April 16 alleged that the group had actually been seized much earlier than originally thought , probably during 1986 , and not by the FRC , but by the Libyan Navy . |
| 25 | Rather , the new law requires that academic positions be filled by responses to open advertisements and that the disciplines concerned be determined by the universities and not by the ministry . |
| 26 | But it is a judgment to be made by him and not by the courts , whose right and duty to intervene arises only if the decision is untenable in the sense that irrelevant matters were taken account of , relevant matters were not taken account of , or that the decision was manifestly wrong . |
| 27 | It seems we do such a professional job many people do n't realise we are funded by voluntary contributions and not by the Government . |
| 28 | It seems we do such a professional job many people do n't realise we are funded by voluntary contributions and not by the Government . |
| 29 | But , why did the Dock Commission decide to make it compulsory for the men to be employed by them and not by the firm ? |
| 30 | If any of the matters in issue have to be decided again , this must be done by the original deciding authority and not by the supervising court . |