Example sentences of "by [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suggest , by implication at the very least , that modern society is characterised by greater promiscuity , greater sexual licence , by altogether less controlled or constrained sexual behaviour . |
| 2 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 3 | By constantly loose feeding loose maggots he was able to keep the fish active in his swim , enabling him to pick them off steadily until he had about 10 lb. 6 oz . |
| 4 | On the other hand , from the forties onwards there is likely to be greater stability in the sense that individuals are more settled in their jobs and ambitions and are supported by less rapidly changing domestic and leisure situations . |
| 5 | Did he feel he had invented the gun-for-hire designer by so firmly dissociating himself from any one house ? |
| 6 | The Observer commented that Ramsey destroyed his chances of succeeding Fisher as archbishop by so openly identifying himself with the extreme high church party . |
| 7 | Organising a fair distribution of tickets by perhaps initially limiting the number allocated to each family or , alternatively , putting on an extra performance will go a long way to solving the problem . |
| 8 | And you 'll find out what method by just simply questioning them about the . |
| 9 | By just merely putting in an additional point , or turnout , here , er to er to make that say double track . |
| 10 | Indeed , HIV could provide a means of encouraging people to broaden their sexual horizons , by not just relying on penetration as the goal of sexual pleasure . |
| 11 | We can point to many instances where clear safety improvements have been effected by not simply accepting FAA requirements . |
| 12 | It is likely that he will still need the list of solicitors but , by not immediately closing the interview , the adviser may have explored issues which are important , which John may not have thought worth telling the solicitor . |
| 13 | She has probably known what the doctor is going to say and may feel she has betrayed the family or patient and her relationship with them by not previously telling them the truth . |
| 14 | Intasun and Horizon are taking backward integration even further by not only operating their own airlines but also developing or buying up hotels and holiday centres in the Mediterranean area . |
| 15 | An aesthetically satisfactory answer to the need to insert additional windows to light the new lower-level accommodation was found by not only siting the new openings in the same vertical alignment as the original triparite lights , but also by aiming to reproduce the general appearance of the existing windows . |
| 16 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 17 | The industry had responded to the great challenge of a whole era of ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ by not only cleaning up minor abuses but by becoming itself an agency of social improvement . |
| 18 | In another study George Bokert increased the degree of thirst in his subjects by not only depriving them of water for twenty-four hours , but also giving them a salty meal before going to bed . |
| 19 | Neither Rosamond Lehmann nor Anita Brookner , for example , should really be called postmodernist , since they follow after modernism , adopting something of its idiom and methods , without , as McHale suggests , following on from the work of the modernists by not only adopting their idiom , but adapting it into recognizably new and separate extensions of their own . |
| 20 | By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language . |
| 21 | We were protected by not really knowing the risks . |
| 22 | Numbers of senior house officers have risen by 14% in three years — far more than was intended — and , by not substantially reducing the number of registrars , JPAC has failed to keep to its terms of reference . |
| 23 | We run the risk of damaging our own campaigns by not fully understanding the roles staff can play , or how they can damage the process if they do not understand their role . |
| 24 | The demi-caractère style has its roots in classical technique , but must be coloured by more clearly defined and individual movements which allow the dancers to show they are playing the part of some character who has some claim to live in the real world and therefore can be recognised as such . |
| 25 | At its root is the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 26 | At its root in the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 27 | Large scale impersonal surveys can be supplemented by more personally based interviews either with individuals or groups . |
| 28 | In winter differs from all sea terns by more sharply defined white shoulder patch , variable but distinctive black spot on side of breast and black bill , as well as by less deeply forked tail . |
| 29 | The selectivity of the Government 's approach is again illuminated by once again comparing the treatment handed out to those at the bottom of the social hierarchy , where the Government has launched a determined attack on what it calls the ‘ dependency culture ’ . |
| 30 | Continue moving by once again stepping out with your right foot , then sliding the left foot into place next to it . |