Example sentences of "by [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 4.12 lists them by rather general categories , partly adopted from the Pilkington Committee . |
| 2 | The lunar maria , nearly all of which are located on the near side , also seem to be of impact origin , with subsequent infill by rather dark material . |
| 3 | Most often detected by rather monotonous ‘ piu ’ call , not unlike single note of Redshank , repeated at short intervals , usually at night . |
| 4 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 5 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 6 | There 's variety ; sandy beaches , scruffy towns , timeless villages and pretty harbours are linked by rather random buses . |
| 7 | The French , British and United States governments were swayed in their unwillingness to recognize this right by rather different considerations . |
| 8 | yeah well um I do n't know , maybe she grew up when there were y'know smoking was surrounded by rather different attitudes . |
| 9 | Motivated by rather more than just military considerations , the EFA was an exercise in European unity , and was governed by the need to give a ‘ fair share ’ of the contracts to each of the participating countries . |
| 10 | The part financed out of wages ( and the incomes of the self-employed corresponding to the average wage ) fell by rather more than this ( figure 8.5 ) . |
| 11 | Probably not helped by rather dreary illustrations . |
| 12 | In fact , the synthesised parts of the album are , to my ears , the least successful , with the sheer , staggering brilliance of the Labèques fingerwork replaced by rather unatmospheric electronics . |
| 13 | The NCSC says the agreement may contravene the takeover code by effectively changing control of Bell without shareholder approval . |
| 14 | The record is spasmodic and ridiculously incomplete , with particular strata and fossils extremely widespread , hut separated by vastly longer gaps than anything that is preserved . |
| 15 | For the Carnegies , Mellons and Heinzs were built substantial brick mansions up the slope from the river whilst the clapboard terraced houses on the riverside were occupied by mostly Eastern European immigrants drawn by work in the steel mills . |
| 16 | PHNOM PENH — The Cambodian Defence Minister , Tea Banh , said yesterday that government troops repulsed an offensive by mostly non-communist resistance forces last week near Sisophon , AFP reports . |
| 17 | Easily recognised by generally black and white appearance , upperparts showing green in bright sunlight , by crest , and in flight by conspicuously broad rounded wings ; throat black in summer , white in winter . |
| 18 | Autonomy declaration by predominantly Polish district |
| 19 | A reasonable assumption to make on the basis of the instructions given to registrars before 1986 , therefore , is that most of the deaths of children classified as unoccupied will have been registered by economically inactive lone mothers . |
| 20 | But for girls who were unattached and less inhibited , and who yearned for a bit of ‘ fun ’ , the prospect of lavish meals in American messes , and gifts of sweets and nylons , accompanied , let it be said in all fairness , by flatteringly gallant , if brash , wooing , could be a powerful magnet . |
| 21 | Recruited by intensely competitive examination , many graduated in pure and applied science , in engineering or mathematics — notably the ‘ polytechniciens ’ and ‘ centraliens ’ , graduates of ( the MoD-funded ( Ecole Polytechnique , and of l'Ecole Centrale . |
| 22 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 23 | All defined benefit schemes are subject to regular valuations by professionally qualified actuaries . |
| 24 | limited ( third party ) ( 1991 ) policy did not provide indemnity of survey carried out by nominated person not holding professional qualifications or with 5 years experience and supervised by professionally qualified person . |
| 25 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 26 | Tending takes place in a wide variety of households , characterised by different family structures and by widely different experiences in terms of family relationships and life patterns . |
| 27 | They confirmed , and other investigators corroborated it , that workers were being driven from their lathes and benches by wholly fictitious sexual fears . |
| 28 | Is it in the public interest that a public authority 's finances should be disrupted by wholly unexpected claims for repayment years after the money in question has been received ? |
| 29 | Clearly Whiteson is suspicious that Duran may not have shed 30lb to get down to the middleweight limit for Leonard by wholly natural methods . |
| 30 | For , surprisingly , it is not illegal for other conditions to be treated by medically unqualified people as long as such people do not claim to be doctors . |