Example sentences of "and by an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 2 | This is how the romantic-lyric elements in Elvis 's style , for example , could take on new meanings , mediated as they were by country and western 's and black music 's previous appropriations of them , by the ‘ under view ’ of the working class of the South on the American Dream , and by an awareness of a new freedom in adolescent leisure behaviour . |
| 3 | This point can be proved by an admission on the part of the defendant-on enquiries at the DVLC , Swansea whose records can be produced in evidence ; and by an admission on the part of the owner where he is n't the defendant etc . |
| 4 | Critique is replaced by commentary , and by an act of faith in the capacity of consumers to do surprising and amazing things with what they daily receive . |
| 5 | This was followed by a £500,000 award to Jeffrey Archer against a newspaper which wrongly suggested ( albeit on considerable circumstantial evidence ) that he had sex with a prostitute , and by an award of £300,000 against a small trade journal . |
| 6 | The hydrocarbon prospects of the Variscan thrust belt in southern England can be examined from two angles : by analogy with results in the better explored lateral equivalents of the belt on the Continent and more particularly in eastern North America , and by an attempt to reconstruct the geometry and burial history of the pre-Permian rocks in the area of interest from the limited local clues available . |
| 7 | LEACHED SOILS are characterised by a uniformly coloured B horizon , by an absence of free lime and by an acid reaction in their A and B horizons . |
| 8 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 9 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |