Example sentences of "[adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 2 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 3 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 4 | I do n't know , I was just sitting on the grass one day , down by the river . |
| 5 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 6 | The into-wind wing must always be kept down by moving the stick across a little into wind , and it is always necessary to rudder out of the wind . |
| 7 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 8 | thesis , in accordance with the directive laid down by Force Orders . |
| 9 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 10 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 11 | ‘ They will have gone down by the other side , ’ said Allan Stewart , ‘ it is their quickest way . ’ |
| 12 | On one of his afternoon strolls ( mornings were for work , once he had completed his domestic chores laid down by Stella ) , he chanced on Bank Street , in the East End . |
| 13 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 14 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 15 | In the heart of the vast city , Daddy again , his brown eyes bright , you could see his sparse hair growing down by the minute into the Hippie pigtail he 'd been too young or too old and always too respectable to wear … |
| 16 | She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again . |
| 17 | Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government . |
| 18 | According to the ADC , in the cases quoted by councils the properties by and large fulfilled all the principal criteria set down by the Government for a property suitable for occupation by older people , ie that it was let to persons over pensionable age ; access was relatively easy ; the accommodation was on level ground ; the dwelling had no more than two bedrooms ; the heating arrangements were adequate ; the property was reasonably conveniently located . |
| 19 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 20 | A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools . |
| 21 | This does not mean that today 's choreographers need follow the conventions laid down by the Renaissance scholars who were more interested in the physical ability and behaviour of courtiers . |
| 22 | or where they set tables down by small rivers , |
| 23 | And yet that inn , the Hotel de perigord , being set down by the Dronne , is on the outskirts of Aubeterre. for Aubeterre is a hilltown , set on a chalky cliff above the river ( whence the name — Aubeterre , Alba Terra ) . |
| 24 | The key objective is a 15 per cent return on equity , and all business within the group is conducted at arm 's length on guidelines laid down by CB at the centre . |
| 25 | Northampton , too , were missing key players , going down by five tries to a consolation one . |
| 26 | The rest of the market remained weighed down by interest rate pressures , with Thursday 's West German decision anxiously awaited . |
| 27 | The government attributed the crash to a technical fault , but foreign diplomats speculate that the helicopter was shot down by a Blowpipe . |
| 28 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
| 29 | He argues that the small firms sector is particularly well situated to benefit from the wider enterprise opportunities offered by the single market and should not be tied down by EC red tape . |
| 30 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |