Example sentences of "as by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is amply confirmed by analysis of the 1911 census ( Matras 1965 ) , by the enquiries on contraception begun by Dr. E. Lewis-Faning in connection with the 1946 Family Census ( Lewis-Faning 1949 , Glass and Grebenik 1954 ) , and by all other surveys since , as well as by contemporary accounts ( Fryer 1965 ) . |
| 2 | Attitudes were formed as much in shared leisure as by individual endeavour . |
| 3 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 4 | Mr Cleaver was endorsed by the Kansas City Star , as well as by other mainstream organisations including a group of black Republicans . |
| 5 | But change it does , and there is no better barometer of that change than what is censored , by libraries as well as by other institutions . |
| 6 | ‘ WACC 's lead in championing and highlighting such concerns was alluded to by the President of IAMCR , Prof Cees Hamelink , as well as by other researchers from both the North and the South , ’ Mr Thomas added . |
| 7 | The national coordination of teaching resources for multicultural education and community languages could be greatly assisted by the use of databases such as LARRIE , AIMER and NERIS , as well as by annual events such as the Multicultural Swapshop organised by the Minority Group Support Service in Coventry . |
| 8 | For , as we noted , the association of particular accents ( realized by proportions of phonological variables ) with particular social or geographical communities is generally not part of an intentional message ( Labov ( 1972a ) argues that such variables are only very partially under conscious control ) , nor are such social significances associated with linguistic forms by arbitrary synchronic convention so much as by regular historical and social process . |
| 9 | This conference was attended by major companies throughout the UK as well as by key figures from politics and the media . |
| 10 | It was at this moment that the Danzig dockers union , inspired as much by anti-Polish sentiment as by fellow feeling for Soviet brother-workers , decided that they would no longer handle supplies and munitions destined for Poland . |
| 11 | The staff is frequently consulted by national bodies in the UK , as well as by international organisations , the UN family , World Bank , etc . |
| 12 | Their wages are held down as much by non-union agreements insisted upon by the Asian and American employers as by progressive devaluation . |
| 13 | This proposal has been endorsed by the British Council of Churches , the Church Assembly , and the Moral Welfare Council of the Church of England , a Roman Catholic Advisory Committee , appointed by the late Cardinal Griffin , the Methodist Church , and leading spokesmen of many other leading Christian denominations , as well as by prominent humanists . |
| 14 | In the end , THORP may be hit as much by an economic boycott as by environmental concerns about the international traffic in dangerous waste . |
| 15 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 16 | It is interesting that Patrick 's activity seems to have been dictated as much by personal disillusion or disappointment as by religious fervour . |
| 17 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 18 | People had been shocked , by numbers as well as by gratuitous death itself , as people will be , and Mrs Maguire 's sister and a friend had founded the Peace People , whose brave beginning and sad end will not be chronicled here . |
| 19 | We are increasingly questioning the wisdom of a car and road-led transport strategy which destroys important habitats and local landscapes both directly , in terms of the selected route , and indirectly through the quarrying and transport of aggregates , as well as by encouraging increased vehicular pollution . |
| 20 | Their treatment of those who held land from them may have been prompted as much by economic motives as by political or psychological ones . |
| 21 | It is usually desirable to leave old words as they are , since hymnody is governed by the number of syllables in the line as well as by rhyming verse . |
| 22 | Such calculations encouraged the substitution ( at least in Cuba ) of slaves not so much by free labour as by indentured labour , from among the Maya Indians of Yucatan , victims of the Race War ( see chapter 7 above ) or from newly opened China . |
| 23 | The language used by the ivory and slave traders as well as by European explorers like Burton , Speke , Stanley and Livingstone , it spread along the trade routes : inland from Bagamoyo , Kilwa and Mboamaji to Tabora and then south towards the gap between Takes Tanganyika and Malawi , west to the town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika , north-west to Karagwe and north to Lake Victoria . |
| 24 | One replies that one can live by it as by great literature . |
| 25 | In practice , I suspect that ‘ contracts ’ are arrived at as much by religious and ideological persuasion as by rational discourse , and maintained more by the threat of social ostracism than by legal restraint . |
| 26 | I argue that the effect of this on the size of the search space was concealed during the ARPA project as much by the design of the systems as by poor front-end processing . |
| 27 | Finally , it has been claimed ( as much by statisticians from developing countries as by Western commentators ) that official figures from the Third World are often considerably manipulated by the governments producing them . |
| 28 | Though the much trumpeted ivory ban has blunted the immediate threat , they are still menaced by poaching , as well as by human population pressure and loss of habitat , across much of the continent . |
| 29 | We are witnessing only the latest episode in that long history , in which geography itself has been remade , and the landscape , now more than ever , is transformed not so much by the efforts of individuals , as by public policy and the stroke of a pen . |
| 30 | In our experiment , we controlled for intermale and interfemale competition by excluding responses when more than one bird was near the model , but because crest size is also correlated with dominance in both sexes and aggressive competition for mates is frequent ( I.L.J. , unpublished data ) , crest ornament size is likely to be favoured by intrasexual competition as well as by mating preference . |