Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among its recommendations were ( i ) the creation of vents and energy absorption systems which would dissipate the force of an explosion ; ( ii ) the repositioning of cargo containers to ensure that any explosive energy was either directed outwards or absorbed by other baggage containers ; and ( iii ) improving flight recorders so that they continued working after a power failure . |
| 2 | That any of our pubs can , at a stroke , be shut down or altered by uncaring owners , without any proper consultation with users or the community , is little short of a continuing national disgrace . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it offered only a static picture of the corporate executive and fails to visualize him as caught in and conditioned by organizational processes of career advancement . |
| 4 | Matrices have the advantage that they can be added together and multiplied by scalar quantities ; further the concepts of determinant and trace are available to aid computation . |
| 5 | It is said that initially it consisted of a small number of ex-convicts brought together and controlled by British intelligence . |
| 6 | The possibility that a dichotic right ear superiority is due to subjects being required to give a verbal response prompted Springer ( 1971 , 1973 ) to present consonant-vowel syllables either dichotically or opposed by white noise ( a mixture of all possible sound frequencies ) and to use manual reaction time to a target syllable as her response measure . |
| 7 | The disk is pentagonal , indented interradially and covered by small scales amongst which the centrodorsal and primary plates are conspicuous , disk diameter up to 8–10 mm . |
| 8 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 9 | Morning sightseeing includes the great Temple of Luxor ( 18th Dynasty ) and Karnak , started in the 20th Century BC and enlarged by successive Pharaohs as a fantastic city for Amun and his priests . |
| 10 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 12 | The simple task devised by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) was subsequently taken up and modified by other investigations . |
| 13 | The local technical university is a useful source ; so is the Penang Skills Development Centre , set up and financed by local multinationals . |
| 14 | These are cooperative credit societies set up and controlled by local people from a defined geographical area . |
| 15 | The key figure responsible for resurrecting the Durkheimian idea of the functions of crime was Erikson ( 1966 ) , but it was taken up and used by other writers of the period ( for example , Box , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | These courses are being phased out and replaced by new courses . |
| 17 | Audio dubbing is a simple set-up ( right ) by which original video sound can be dubbed out and replaced by new sound such as background effects or music . |
| 18 | They were several hundred yards apart and hidden from each other by a bend in the road , and they were both set well back and reached by private tracks which were better maintained than the road itself . |
| 19 | The outline of such an axe can be measured very precisely and processed by various techniques of coordinate geometry ( including , incidentally , one originally invented by marine engineers to measure the shape of ship hulls ) to give a final mathematical ‘ fingerprint ’ of the axe 's shape . |
| 20 | The agents make a pact with the devil either privately or accompanied by great ceremony during one of the main sabbats of the year . |
| 21 | walked round and left by different ways . |