Example sentences of "and [adv] by a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet .
2 The historical and social claim to professional autonomy is counterproductive in an environment where pedagogic autonomy is increasingly inhibited , entry to teaching is controlled by DES policy and not by a professional body , conditions of employment are nationally prescribed and major management initiatives , such as staff development , appraisal , recruitment and promotion , are increasingly subject to DES guidelines .
3 For the Formalists originality is constituted only by a reworking of the available devices and not by a personal vision in the lived experience of writers .
4 The frequency of sessions should be determined by the patient 's needs and not by a rigid ( e.g. weekly ) schedule .
5 It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor .
6 Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants .
7 I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council .
8 Sometimes a tooth will become decayed which will need to be extracted with an anaesthetic and thus by a veterinary surgeon .
9 Between them is a third cell , represented inside by a stone-vaulted unit and outside by a strong buttress on the north side .
10 They were soon identified as potential customers by tradesmen , bankers , building societies , and insurance companies , then by streetcar and railway companies , by the publishers of newspapers , journals , and cheap novels , and finally by a whole army of showmen whose task it was to inveigle the masses into circuses , fairgrounds , peepshows , roller-skating pavilions , theatres , and sporting fixtures .
11 This was achieved partly by a classical series of experiments to study the action of acetylcholine and atropine on their targets ( receptors ) in ‘ simple ’ test objects such as the isolated heart of the frog , and partly by a painstaking and even-handed re-evaluation of the welter of information of very variable quality that was already available .
12 ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it .
13 ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it .
14 The SAS was to be augmented by a number of men from 1 Special Service Regiment , who were untrained in desert raiding , and also by a naval party and even two tanks .
15 A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways .
16 We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door .
17 My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament .
18 Rather it was carried out smoothly and efficiently by a part-time ‘ Glasgow housewife ’ .
19 Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things .
20 The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 .
21 This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages .
22 He died 5 January 1737 , ‘ suddenly , of a fit of apoplexy , as he was sitting in his chair at his house in Bartlett 's Buildings , Holborn ’ , and was succeeded first by his son Erasmus [ q.v. ] , the author of several treatises on economics , and then by a younger son , John , ‘ a notorious Jacobite ’ .
23 On both occasions the violation of the maxim , in contrast to earlier instances we have examined , is deliberate , and asserts his wish , indirectly and politely at first and then by a bald on-record demand , to leave the speech situation altogether , a fact which strongly implicates his insecurity in it .
24 The rumour of noise from under the trees became spaced , punctuated by sharper sounds and sometimes by a subterranean crackling , like distant footsteps in frost .
25 And therefore by a mighty feat of arithmetic we come up with the figure of what , one hundred and twenty eight go for the system by thirds .
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