Example sentences of "and [adv] by [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 6 | Scotland was still a divided and badly governed nation and David thought that progress to a well-ordered State could be achieved most quickly and effectively by an extension of Norman influence . |
| 7 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sub-section ( 4 ) provided that the power to re-hear should be exercisable only within 28 days of the order/sentence/finding of guilt as the case may be and only by a court constituted in the same manner as that which made the earlier decision . |
| 14 | Bundles of entries may only be transferred to higher level groups and only by the leader of the higher group . |
| 15 | Perhaps the Minister can clarify whether the provisions of the Bill will be operated specifically and only by the transport police . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Pressure in this sense was exercised by the customers , and especially by the customer with whose wife the employee had an affair . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 20 | It is formed by an electrical discharge in oxygen , and thus by the action of lightning on oxygen in the upper atmosphere . |
| 21 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 22 | Standardisation is reflected in the choice of a single approach ( the PWR ) , then in the selection of two power levels ( 900 and 1300 MWe ) , and finally by the construction of series of practically identical units : after the first six 900-MWe units , designed before 1973 , the remaining 46 units that will be in service in 1990 are in only four series , two for the 900-M units and two for the 1300-MW units . |
| 23 | The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was ruled by the courts and finally by the House of Lords to be acting beyond its powers in lowering its public transport fares in the Fares fair' campaign of the early 1980s . |
| 24 | The administration of Yorkshire is now in good hands , expertly led by Sir Lawrence Byford and chief executive Chris Hassall and shortly by a committee which will be reduced by half to cut the waffling and dissent . |
| 25 | The meaning of this troublesome phrase was a central issue in the English case of The State of Norway 's Application which was twice considered by the Court of Appeal and once by the House of Lords . |
| 26 | The fact that in every instance she was chaperoned , at least by a detective and usually by a group of other friends too , never seemed relevant . |
| 27 | The second sentence may be a little easier and usually by the end of the first paragraph , students feel more secure ; they are " into " the essay . |
| 28 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 29 | I was struck more and more by the fact that there are comparable celebrations of human brilliance in the most deprived places . |
| 30 | Both pickups have been screwed directly into the body of the guitar , a device being employed more and more by the rock fraternity , ever in search of yet more sustain . |