Example sentences of "and [verb] by [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a familiar case of one of the basic contradictions of modern capitalism , in which increasingly socialized forms of production are defined and limited by privately appropriated forms of ownership and control . |
| 2 | Most of it 's vastly populated and punctuated by well defined compact small market towns and villages . |
| 3 | They appreciated that the XM sets new standards of ride and handling by actually anticipating the road ahead . |
| 4 | They prepare individual care-plans for each patient with goals and objectives to be drawn up and revised by both the nurse and the patient . |
| 5 | For this shot you should position the ball further back in your stance and compensate by fractionally strengthening the left-hand grip . |
| 6 | Gleizes and Metzinger , themselves painters , and fascinated by purely formal pictorial problems , also began by seeing abstraction as the logical end , although they rapidly retreated and admitted the need , for the moment at least , of a certain coefficient of realism : ‘ … the painting imitates nothing and … must justify its existence in itself … |
| 7 | But surely the fact that Rowell has been the brains behind the most successful side in modern British rugby , as well as the man who managed to mesh the England Students into a force so strong that they were able to play World Cup quarter-finalists Canada on their home turf this summer and lose by less than 20 points , puts him on a par with Best . |
| 8 | Retirement , in this sense , is considered to be a natural and inevitable period of peace and dignity , fully enabled and recognized by both law and social provision . |
| 9 | That is , falling in love is regulated and constrained by very powerful social factors : the odds against HRH Prince Edward falling in love with Elsie from the Tesco supermarket are very high indeed . |
| 10 | All elements are made of the same stuff — positively charged nuclei containing protons and encircled by negatively charged electrons . |
| 11 | In the central Philippines , the airbase of Mactan was occupied by no more than two hundred rebels and surrounded by allegedly ‘ loyal ’ troops . |
| 12 | It will be immediately apparent that the bonus surveyor or site management responsible for completing records of hours worked must be honest , fair , competent and trusted by both management and labour for the incentive scheme to work satisfactorily . |
| 13 | In fact , by then Reagan had served a valuable apprenticeship in the communications industry and had completed two terms as governor of the most populous state in the union with a GNP comparable to that of Canada and exceeded by only six national economies . |
| 14 | In what was seen as an important concession to China and condemned by more militant Tibetans as a sell-out , the Dalai Lama effectively acknowledged China 's overall sovereignty and suggested that Tibet become a self-governing region in association with China , a relationship that would leave Peking in control of both foreign policy and defence . |
| 15 | Rococo gardens tend to be bijou in scale , cluttered with frivolous and unrelated pleasure buildings and threaded by sinuously curving paths , avenues and connecting features . |
| 16 | The prints were large and made by strongly fortified boots . |
| 17 | We were treated like second-class citizens and accepted by neither the Australians nor the English . |
| 18 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 19 | My mother was heaving and grunting , pushing and breathing , an hour or so away from producing , and attended by both Mrs Clamp and my father , when all three ( or at least two ; I suppose Agnes might have been too preoccupied ) heard frenzied barking and one high , awful scream . |
| 20 | Water sharing talks were held in Vienna on May 13-14 , chaired by Austria , and attended by more than 30 delegations , which agreed to meet again later in the year to discuss a number of issues including the creation of an international data-base on water , cross-border co-operation , methods of water management and ways to increase water resources . |
| 21 | Environmental protection talks were held in Tokyo on May 18-19 , chaired by Japan and attended by more than 35 delegations . |
| 22 | But as this show reveals , Monet 's ambitions were complex and far-reaching , and fed by very much more than what his eye saw . |
| 23 | However , most informed commentators agree that the key factors include the inefficiency , and sometimes corruption , of an outmoded police force , in combination with the failures of a court system clogged up with cases and handicapped by immensely complex procedures . |
| 24 | The line of reasoning is logical , elegant , plausible , and advanced by highly respected scholars . |
| 25 | They claim to offer ‘ the widest range and the best courses available in the UK , which are written and produced by highly qualified and often nationally recognised experts … ’ |
| 26 | Small wonder , then , that Marcus Judge was still feared and hated by so many men in the Isle of Dogs . |
| 27 | limited ( third party ) ( 1991 ) policy did not provide indemnity of survey carried out by nominated person not holding professional qualifications or with 5 years experience and supervised by professionally qualified person . |
| 28 | In 1932 the library was started again with only 38 volumes , most of which were only out once , in the year when they were first available , and borrowed by only two families . |
| 29 | Paraffin wax sections were cut and stained by both haematoxylin and eosin and giemsa and assessed for evidence of gastritis and Helicobacter pylori organisms . |
| 30 | The power of the peer group to control a deviant is known and used by both managers and union officials . |