Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Minister agree that such waste should be treated or disposed of not by the producers of that waste , but by some other body which may be more independent with regard to financial considerations ? |
| 2 | Here , he scored 20 in a tense hour before being caught high at mid-off by Allen off Verity . |
| 3 | It was warm over here by the fire and there was an unpleasant stench of stale giant and the surreptitious breaking of wind from Goll the Gorm who had eaten too much onion broth again , but these things would have to be overlooked . |
| 4 | Along the chain of consequence , from atomic decay to my act of observation , things must have got fixed at least by the time that the cat 's experience entered into it . |
| 5 | Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need . |
| 6 | I was greatly encouraged by the good spirit of the meeting and have been very heartened since then by the mature christian attitude of a number of people who were strongly opposed to the project , but who have been willing to accept the decision of the church meeting and move on from there . |
| 7 | The president is a zealous evangelical Christian , obsessed of late by what he calls a ‘ plot ’ by a ‘ mafia ’ of drug traffickers to take over the country . |