Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 2 | This game could be won or lost by one piece of magic . |
| 3 | ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’ |
| 5 | Ministerial instructions may be modified or evaded by clever drafting of documents . |
| 6 | All have been affected by the Post-glacial rise of sea level , but in the second class this may have been accentuated or nullified by local land movements . |
| 7 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 8 | This weekend , as he took the fight surrounded and supported by fluttering Union Jacks , it was clear that Lennox regards himself as ‘ one of ours ’ . |
| 9 | New opportunities can not be designed and prescribed by one group of people , produced by another , and offered as discrete choices to ‘ consumers ’ . |
| 10 | In Mediterranean countries , particularly southern Italy , the triforium is omitted and replaced by solid wall decorated in mosaic or fresco painting . |
| 11 | Observing that orgone energy is attracted and absorbed by organic material whereas metal initially absorbs the energy and then repels it rapidly , he constructed a box with alternate layers of metal and organic material , starting with metal on the inside . |
| 12 | SDF participation in peacekeeping operations which might require military action was frozen until authorized by separate legislation . |
| 13 | The firing is both preceded and followed by blatant cronyism . |
| 14 | Elean : A theme that recurs in your Soweto Stories is the theme of keeping the families together , not allowing their innate sense of solidarity with each other to be smashed and replaced by rampant individualism — on the other hand you show very sharply the negative side in this tradition , for example how it impacts on women . |
| 15 | This is concerned with the manufacture of records , music cassettes and compact discs ( generally known as ‘ product ’ ) in factories owned and operated by individual record companies . |
| 16 | The bridge , owned and protected by English Heritage , will eventually be rebuilt with the original stones , once they 've been recovered from the river bed . |
| 17 | That is accomplished by remembering , applying and living by this truth : at work , whatever our standing , we are servants of Christ before we are servants of any earthly master . |
| 18 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 19 | 38 Engineer Regiment from Claro Barracks , Ripon , search a lake where a light aircraft crashed when hit by flying wreckage . |
| 20 | But by definition , science itself was not considered as penetrated by social context ; if it was it would no longer be science , at least not ‘ pure science ’ : |
| 21 | Beatrice and Benedick can speak verse , but their love seems much more natural in prose , neither limited nor coarsened by that vehicle . |
| 22 | Rules which allow for a single symbol at a time to be written or replaced by another symbol or string of symbols ( eg T , N ) are known as " phrase-structures rules ' . |
| 23 | If industries in other countries were weakened or depleted by German domination , and if the single currency removed the competitiveness of weaker economies while the Social Charter , with its minimum wage , insulated German workers from competitively low wages abroad , then one could well imagine economic decline and rising unemployment on the periphery of the EC financing the German stranglehold . |
| 24 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 25 | We all take the use of coins for granted , but they have not been made or used by all metalworking societies . |
| 26 | And they produce oxygen which animals need to breathe , and which helps to replace that lost by burning fossil fuels . |
| 27 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 28 | Nevertheless the ‘ family ’ in this form is still explicitly and implicitly upheld and supported by social policy and the Child Support Act can be seen as another example of this . |
| 29 | Indeed , a mistrust about historical periods possessing commonplaces other than those selected and organised by critical inquiry undertaken for specific , if frequently unconscious , ideological ends is now the familiar assumption . |
| 30 | Then , by a very unlucky chance , we were seen and chased by two pirate ships . |