Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would appear from this that the bone assemblages derived from the long-eared owl and barn owl ( and other species , see below ) are but little altered by the predator , whereas the kestrel assemblages are more greatly altered . |
| 32 | The distribution of power in the legislature was also fundamentally altered by the dilution of the seniority principle in the early 1970s . |
| 33 | This use of HLCAs is , in fact , available but not widely publicised by the Agriculture Department with much discretion being left to individual officers , a situation which MAFF has stated will be rectified . |
| 34 | Like Meese , Porfiry was most fascinated by the final part of Raskolnikov 's paper , in which ‘ you hint … at the existence of certain people who … are , as it were , above the law . ’ |
| 35 | This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king 's subjects . |
| 36 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 37 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |
| 38 | While this was bitterly resented by the British , they too were moving towards the acquisition of a national nuclear force . |
| 39 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 40 | The partners for the time being should not exclude the possibility of negotiation to take account of the particular circumstances of a partner 's departure , eg where to delay payment for his share could result in hardship for himself or his family , or where to insist on strict observance of restraint covenants might stand in the way of a young solicitor wishing to develop a specialised practice in a field of work rarely undertaken by the firm . |
| 41 | It was badly received by the Church authorities , although it was enthusiastically reviewed by Kopitar . |
| 42 | Two of them , Pompeii and Herculaneum , which were located on the lower flanks of Vesuvius , were particularly badly shaken by the shocks , and some damage was done , but the townspeople were not especially alarmed . |
| 43 | His father was still badly shaken by the shooting of the schoolboys . |
| 44 | His empire was badly shaken by the October 1987 worldwide stock market crash [ see pp. 37540-41 , and he eventually lost control of the Bell Group to fellow Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 45 | With the prospect of renewed factional discord , however , and with the strength of his faction in the new Assembly reduced from 40 to 22 seats , Kim 's ambition to succeed Roh as President appeared to have been badly shaken by the election . |
| 46 | Both of the men were quite badly shaken by the incident and understandably do n't want their names to be released . ’ |
| 47 | Earlier this month he was rapturously received by the American Congress ; he was also briefly entertained by President Bush at the White House . |
| 48 | On July 15 Cuomo gave an electrifying nomination address which was rapturously received by the assembled delegates . |
| 49 | I have had two experiences in which the mental health problems of older people have been successfully treated by a homeopath . |
| 50 | This was successfully treated by the insertion of a Palmaz stent within the hepatic vein . |
| 51 | McNealy 's henchman , Ed Zander , president of SunSoft , the Sun unit most jeopardised by the Novell/USL takeover , was acting more of the good cop last week when Unigram spoke with him . |
| 52 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 53 | If the kinds of academic freedom for students just outlined are to be vigorously sustained by the academic community ( as they should ) , then students have to play their part in the exercise of those freedoms . |
| 54 | It is , however , the case that any sentence other than the first in a fragment of discourse , will have the whole of its interpretation forcibly constrained by the preceding text , not just those phrases which obviously and specifically refer to the preceding text , like the aforementioned . |
| 55 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
| 56 | For the language needs of learners can only be effectively solved by a linguistic analysis of their source problems ( Carter , 1982:2 ) . |
| 57 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 58 | Running into the glade , she picked up Rosalind 's letter and folded it back into its envelope , which she saw to her dismay had been badly torn by the man 's rough handling of it . |
| 59 | Gould , in marked contrast , had managed to enlist 298 subscribers for his Himalayan Birds , all of whom were successfully pursued by the efficient and persistent Mr Prince . |
| 60 | Such mastery , however , will normally be brief ; it is unlikely to outlast the passing of crisis and/or movement in the cycles of history ; it will not survive substantial loss of congressional or popular support and it will be relentlessly eroded by the passage of time . |