Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 2 | A number of schools in each county are selected annually , partly by the County Schools Association and partly by the Local Education Authority . |
| 3 | He was followed first by Hawkbit and then by Fiver . |
| 4 | The Act will only apply where the damage was caused partly by the fault of the defendant and partly by the fault of the plaintiff . |
| 5 | Politically this was informed by the demands coming from women 's organizations and intellectually by the moralized language of evolutionary science . |
| 6 | In this small inward-looking world , the intrusion of death could be dreadfully destructive ; the damage could be limited partly by sharing the loss and partly by belief that it would be made good in the afterlife . |
| 7 | Joints and fissures are probably enlarged partly by the abrasive effect of stones scoured into them by the waves and partly by the pressures generated by the waves when they break against the cliffs . |
| 8 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 9 | Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident . |
| 10 | Buckingham must have realised something was wrong for he was quickly joined in the hall , first by Sir Richard and then by Lady Isabella . |
| 11 | In general , the only way by which you can become acquainted with the correspondence student is through the student 's attempts at solutions and possibly by questions on specific difficulties . |
| 12 | In 1972 the Heath Government promoted a major Local Government Act designed to strengthen local councils , partly by weeding out the smaller and weaker local units and partly by helping the whole system to become more efficient . |
| 13 | This defence will apply where the damage which the plaintiff has suffered was caused partly by his own fault and partly by the fault of the defendant . |
| 14 | Meanwhile another method of utilising livestock was explored : the preservation of slaughtered meat , by the traditional methods of salting and drying , by some sort of concentration ( Liebig 's meat extract began to be produced in the River Plate states in 1863 ) , by canning and finally by the decisive device of refrigeration . |
| 15 | So back we got into the car and ultimately by some good fortune we arrived at the Consulate . |
| 16 | The generation of meaning unintended by the author , in the reading process , is dependent on a structure of intended meaning : the Hilary-Joy equivalence in Small World , for instance , is brought into play partly by the percipience of A. S. Byatt and partly by the fact that that novel is by intention full of doubles and pairs and symmetries and heavily connotative names . |
| 17 | Discounting exceptions , which are few and of short duration , there is everywhere a governing class , not large in membership , which maintains itself in power partly by force and partly by the consent of the governed . |
| 18 | Let me put this to Geoffrey Hoskin , Professor Hoskin we 've heard of a people ruled by Tsars and then by , is there going to be any thing but anarchy now ? |
| 19 | In the last two years the number of contrived matches , with results achieved only by means of last-day declarations and sometimes by lollipop bowling , has grown . |
| 20 | With the front foot on the pedal , the track is moved forwards by pushing downwards on the boom and backwards by pulling on the boom . |
| 21 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 22 | ‘ We are the failed spells , ma'am , we must live here in secret , guarded by the Cruithin and also by the Castle 's own strange protections . |
| 23 | They suggest that the weakening of party identification may mean that voters ' preference on issues will be determined less by established patterns of party identification and more by their own positions and their perceptions of party policy . |
| 24 | After the Elizabethan conquest there had been the usual influx of people wanting land , but the landlords of the traditional type had been supplemented by London-based land-holding companies and also by peasant emigrants from Scotland . |
| 25 | Training is partly by at least 3 years ' approved practical experience of actuarial work and partly by tuition for the examinations . |
| 26 | A study of how the various crofting communities handled these pressures , outside the law and largely by ignoring it , might be instructive in the field of human relationships to which I have referred , but it would be difficult now to carry it out because that period in crofting has passed into history . |
| 27 | In the United States union membership from the mid-1930s to 1947 was undoubtedly stimulated first by the 1935 Wagner Act and later by the actions of the War Labor Board in promoting collective bargaining and union recognition ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 28 | WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ? |
| 29 | A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways . |
| 30 | The original Fouchet recommendations , a revised version submitted by France , and counter-proposals from the other five were all polished and discussed by the committee and later by the foreign ministers . |