Example sentences of "by a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This small natural-looking pool is framed by a richly varied planting including variegated grasses and irises , hostas and primulas . |
| 2 | The hall was built in 1539 , and its facade is a marvel of elaborate murals topped by a richly carved half-timbered gallery . |
| 3 | Those responsible for contributory benefits are concerned with the paying out of amounts determined by a largely computerized central system . |
| 4 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
| 5 | The Byzantine Empire , with its capital at Byzantium ( Istanbul ) , was strongly influenced by a number of contrasting elements : Christianity , which was the official religion ; the Oriental factor from further east and the Hellenic force provided by a largely Greek population in the capital and surrounding area who , due to their heredity and training , provided the best craftsmen in building and decoration . |
| 6 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |
| 7 | The old Home Office Inspectorate disappeared in 1971 when the new social service departments came into being and was replaced by a largely advisory Social Work Service . |
| 8 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 9 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 10 | Putting Lipsey and Popper together , we get a neat diagram of how to proceed , backed by a hugely influential rationale for it . |
| 11 | By a curiously symmetrical piece of political manoeuvring , the KDPI , in revolt against Tehran , was succoured by Baghdad , while the KDP , in revolt against Baghdad , was succoured by Tehran . |
| 12 | As to my choice of hardware , I cheated a bit : for my Koi pond already contained an admirable in-pool Oase filter , powered by a seemingly indestructible stainless steel-bodied pump by the same manufacturer . |
| 13 | The massive amount of blood that had been dripped into his veins brought its legacy of jaundice , followed by a seemingly endless skin irritation , something akin to prickly heat . |
| 14 | The rows may be triggered by a seemingly trivial incident , but it is not felt as trivial when it symbolizes past conflicts and needs . |
| 15 | There are pressures to Be Someone , and Q , the DJ ( Epps ) , sees his break at a mixing contest overseen by a decidedly sassy Queen Latifah . |
| 16 | preference shares held by a nominally independent foundation |
| 17 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
| 18 | Here one was met by a bench — and indeed , by a most marvellous view over miles of the surrounding countryside . |
| 19 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
| 20 | I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him . |
| 21 | Our next talk and slide show will be given by a most distinguished speaker , Mr Graham Vincent of Wolverhampton , a former chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway . |
| 22 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 23 | His funeral , according to Calamy , ‘ was attended by a most numerous company of all ranks and qualities , and especially of ministers , some of whom were Conformists , who thought fit to pay him that last office of respect . ’ |
| 24 | The Gondola , Lifeboat and 68 operated every year as a trio , until in 1933 they were joined by a most unusual tramcar , which purported to represent Anne Hathaway 's Cottage . |
| 25 | North Uist is circled by a most convenient road which gives easy access to some marvellous beaches : the magnificent sweep of Valley Strand , guarded by deserted Valley Island ; Traigh Leathann , by Claddach Kirkibost and Kirkibost Island ; small , secret coves , at Scolpaig , Raikinish and Hougharry ; near the Balranald Nature Reserve , home of rare red-necked phalarope and grating corncrake . |
| 26 | The delicatessen was owned by a most enterprising Indian who opened at all the times when other places were shut . |
| 27 | Perhaps more worrying for the Government is the attitude of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who was reported by a most reliable gossip columnist called Peterborough in that impeccably Conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph as saying that it would have been better if there had been no deal at all . |
| 28 | In the Chief Constable 's view the use of force was ‘ fully justified ’ , believing himself surrounded by a criminally hostile population , with recent memories of the looting and disorder which had accompanied the police strike of 1919 in Liverpool . |
| 29 | By putting up a clergyman as a candidate , he could rely on the vote of hundreds of MAs who , sitting in their country rectories , could easily be persuaded by a judiciously worded letter that their old University was falling into the hands of infidels . |
| 30 | Where Sly went for an inward-looking drum-numbed indifference ( made bearable , glamorous even , by a wonderfully impenetrable jungle funk ) , Gaye wrought a song cycle that takes the whole world through doubt , disillusion , destruction and eventual redemption through the power of love and community . |