Example sentences of "by [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars . |
| 2 | Of somewhat similar type are those bays , which have spits springing from the headlands on either side and growing towards each other , the distal ends being separated by only a narrow channel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Television 's failure to publicize the unemployment issue was matched by only a small decline in public concern about the issue while enormous public interest in health , education and social services preceded television 's switch towards those issues . |
| 5 | That was matched by a similarly dramatic increase in public perceptions that the party debate had now focused on defence , but by only a small increase in the public 's own concern about the issue . |
| 6 | Traditional , elegant and utterly exclusive , this hotel is fronted by lawned gardens and separated from the lake shore by only a small road . |
| 7 | Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority . |
| 8 | Knowledge of the law relating to control of water pollution , beyond a broad conception of the pollution offences , however , is regarded as unimportant and is claimed by only a small minority of field men , because the job is done ‘ by experience ’ and the application of rules-of-thumb — not ‘ by the book ’ . |
| 9 | popular books and magazine articles about science can help to put across new developments , but even the most successful popular book is read by only a small proportion of the population . |
| 10 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 11 | They cause objects to seem to shift in position by only a small amount , which is what objects plausibly can be expected to do in the real world . |
| 12 | The number of visitors from parts of Scotland outwith the Edinburgh area was , in fact , comparatively small ( 19% ) , and exceeded the number of overseas visitors ( 16% ) by only a small margin . |
| 13 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |
| 14 | The larger rodents in both regions are represented by only a single individual in the ant assemblage probably because their bones are too heavy for the ants to carry . |
| 15 | In contrast to the barn owl , the snowy owl is represented by only a single pellet sample . |
| 16 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 17 | Near neighbours in genetic space are animals that differ from one another by only a single mutation . |
| 18 | Each unit , once landed , had therefore to make its own decisions undirected by the higher command , with the result that one company , though separated by only a short distance from the next , could be unaware of what their comrades were attempting . |
| 19 | In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality . |
| 20 | Sometimes it represents more serious and massive popular discontents , as in the renewed turn to Scottish nationalism in the late 1980s , plainly a reaction both to an all-British government supported by only a modest minority of Scots and a politically impotent all-British opposition party . |
| 21 | Since the actual value of income diverges from the expected value by only a random error it is tempting to replace the expected income term in equation ( 3.6 ) with actual income and rewrite equation ( 3.6 ) as : |
| 22 | DO YOU FANCY leaping off a high place attached to earth by only a large rubber band ? |
| 23 | Imports of wine suffered a similar drop to those at Bristol ; indeed the average annual import fell even more drastically , by over 45 per cent , but the decline in cloth exports , by only a little over 15 per cent , was much less . |
| 24 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 25 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 26 | The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture . |
| 27 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 28 | The big Victorian offices and panelled boardrooms once occupied by executives from British Shipbuilders , the state-owned company , are now mostly empty , populated by only a few tough and profit-driven executives from the Norwegian owners . |
| 29 | Each cubicle was a treacherous no man 's land , now braved by only a few passengers seeking out the dozing heat of the restaurant car which , nearing the end of its journey , had little to offer . |
| 30 | Another company holds an annual senior managers ' conference attended by only a few select top executives at which fundamental issues are discussed . |